YA Services Minutes - November 15, 2023

OES Updates 

YALSA YA Services Symposium review, Fall Teen Services check-ins – Emily 

• Fall check-ins - Visited half of the library locations and will visit the other half within the next couple of months, goal: see what is going on, how to help, patterns, training needed, and to be helpful. Hopefully, continue having check-ins every year. 
• YALSA Symposium - A more formal rundown of the conference will be available in February. (Preview: Presentation on Teen Volunteers; Underappreciated, Burned Out, Still Here session; Library tour and talks with other library staff (seeing their perspective); Having trouble finding teens? Everyone is struggling; Library cat; and more). 

Imagination Library/Dolly Parton’s birthday and Literary Voices – Heather 

• Dolly Day on January 19th (All locations will have the ability to ask for a Selfie Station (available for each location); Little Engine That Could scavenger hunt; Guitar shaped craft kit, etc.) Goal is to raise 500,000 dollars 
• Literary Voices® 2024 will be the first week of April 2024 with Kwame Alexander, James Patterson, and Kevin Kwan. Details on the promotion of these events will come from DVS after Jan. 1. To learn more now (to plan adult passive or active programming re: these authors) visit www.literaryvoices.org 

Young at Art/exhibit walls and events in Aspen

• Caldecott Exhibition coming December 18 through January 17th at Downtown Library (Programming and kits ideas are welcomed. Example: From Tuesday through Saturday, DN is doing a Storytime at 2pm and a pretend play corner and landscape craft lab that follows). 
• Modify your event descriptions in Aspen (using verbiage that better integrates with our items and events) and explore more of Aspen (HTML)
• More questions? Ask Judie! 

Period products – Emily 

• It looks like product orders have been going to an email that does not exist, but it has been fixed. If you are still missing period products by next week, please contact Djimon or Jessica. Again, OES has a surplus of period products that all locations can order through the supply catalog each month. Never hesitate to contact Jess or Djimon! Also, we are here to help facilitate having Period OKC come to your location with a table if interested. Period Supplies – PADS: https://my.metrolibrary.info/drupal/supplies/period-supplies-pads Period Supplies – TAMPONS: https://my.metrolibrary.info/drupal/supplies/period-supplies-tampons 

Volunteer planning – Heidi 

· Thursday, January 11 – Summer Super Training – 1:30-4:00pm Belle Isle Library: Schedule Creation, Recruitment including returning invite lists, Interviewing with Schedule slots 

· Thursday, March 21 – Summer Super Training – 1:30-4:00pm at Del City Room AB Library, Training, Scheduling, Supervising, Recognizing 

· April-May 31 – Volunteer Trainings at libraries and online 

· August 1st- Summer Super Wrap Meeting - 1:30-3:30 (Summer Super Wrap Meeting and Recognition prep – 1:30 to 3:30pm Downtown Library 

· August 2 - Volunteer Recognition Event – 4-6pm prep, event from 6:30-8:30pm Downtown Library and local recognition, fall recruitment, and training parties 

Discussion - Brainstorming Notes from Giant Post-Its

ONEcard usage and promotion 

• Remind schools 

• Incentives (drawings, etc.) for using ONEcard 

• Invite teachers (or Zoom), make them you friends and get them behind it 

• New marketing materials 

• Marketing 

• Expand – Millwood and PC 

• School promotion 

• Mention during outreaches 

• Sticker reminders for student IDs 

• Mention ONEcard to kids in the libraries 

• Ask schools I they can put ONEcard info on their websites 

• Does drop-off correlate with going fine free? 

• Promote at bilingual programs 

• School visits 

• School staff turnover – reach out to staff mtgs/trainings 

Program ideas for March/April 

• Bristle bot painting 

• Felt sewing take home kit 

• Banned books parent book club  

• Fandom trivia night 

• Eclipse program 

• Prom dress drive 

• Teen watercolor (presenter) 

• Clown school 

• Escape room (CSI) 

• Adulting 101 (presenters) 

• Book boxes 

• Maker Mondays 

• Slime! Series 

• Melted crayon jewelry 

• Equinox kit 

• Fanfic/fanart contest 

• Mini make and paint 

• Open mic – story slam 

• Playlists and poetry (decorate cassette) 

• Library live – recurring shows! 

• STEAM break 

• Leave a playlist in a book 

• May – Geek Con 

• String art 

• Blackout poetry 

• Paint parties 

• Henna 

• Coding/Fiero 

• Reading buddies 

Top YA reads 

• One Piece 

• Heartstopper (2 votes) 

• Demon Slayer 

• Blue Period 

• One of Us Is Lying 

• Fangirl 

• Legendborn 

• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea 

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club 

• Stateless 

• Warrior Girl Unearthed 

• Divine Rivals 

• Star Splitter 

• The Half-Life of Love 

• Delicious Monsters 

• Promise Boys 

• Throwback 

• America Redux 

Sharing and Programming Discussion 

Elisabeth White (VI) 

· Attendance is down for VI programs (escape room, coding club) that were well attended before covid 

· Leadership opportunities for kids (tech skills, mental health). Card for emotional regulations and topics with HOW TO skills (achievable projects). 

· January –February- Young Entrepreneurs club (presenters coming to teach) (8-week course) 

· The Teen Advisory Board is going well. There are 5-6 teens who mainly come to TAB to build their resumes and leadership skills and don't come to other programming. So rather than have them plan teen programs, Elisabeth opened it up for them to brainstorm problems they've observed and could help address. They focused on mental health and tech skills, so they're working on things like designing cards with emotional regulation strategies and making how-to videos for common tech issues. 

· There is also excitement for the Young Entrepreneurs Club that Elisabeth is planning for Jan/Feb for 4th-8th graders. There are a couple of partners (credit union, vo-tech, small business owner) who will help teach lessons with hands-on activities, culminating in a Pitch Event where the students can pitch their ideas to a panel. 

Meg Nance Coker (Special Collections)

· The Oklahoma Underground Music Archive has gathered an Archival Collection of Zines, Photographs, Concert Tickets, T-shirts, etc. There is also a Facebook group connected that has 1.4K members. · UMAmi has been received well by the community and is growing with each month (the link provided is an Excel sheet where you can request zine copies for your branch). 

· In July 2023, there was a Library Live event at DN that featured Crust punk through 4 bands. This was a successful event that brought a good crowd to the location, so now we want to spread it throughout the system. 

· Idea: Quarterly concert, rotating locations, 2-3 bands/artists, different genres (indie rock, post-punk, synth-wave, etc.) Provided: Consistent branding and media, tie-in with UMA and SCR social media, features in UMAmi zine, access to artist listing, background projection, physical sign, and extra copies of zine. 

· Volunteer opportunities - transcribing interviewers 

Nell Johnson (BE) & Edie Daniel (BE) 

· DND club. Two DMs right now 

· YA author visit – marketing for TEENS (program that have photobooth. Trivia, gift basket raffle) 

· Indigieous Poetry event –reading and workshop 

· Mini make-and-paint with resin (3D) 

Heidi Port (DVS) 

· Virtual volunteer opportunities with Meg Nance Coker 

· Booksale is coming up 

Krystle Pierce (CH) 

· Haunted House (take home kits) - First kit 

· Ornament decoration with middle school class 

Lacy Kieser (SO) 

· Fairydoor craft turned into scavenger hunt as well 

· Family program for scrapbooking (bring your own pictures and they will provide the rest) 

· Maker Monday (see how popular MakerSpace is in the community) 

· Continue with Book Boxes 

Debra Phillips (WA) & Paula Penrod (WA) 

· Helping and assisting with program. 

· Ozobots and passive programs! 

· Annual Christmas Card 

· Christmas wreath making 

· Monthly journal (last month: dark academia and in January: another theme) 

· Salt painting 

Sheldon Beach (BI) 

· Focusing on passive programs 

Kassy Nicholson (NW) 

· DND club 

· Attendance starting to come back since covid 

· Crafternoon, monthly art club (Artsy Fartsy club) discuss artist and replicate their work 

· Monthly STEM program (trying but lacking interest for public) 

Rena Gibson (RE) 

· Find presenters to come in and do more outreach and marketing 

· December – Alfonzo from Groovemeant 

· Sarah Fish from the Museum of Art coming in and doing a Paint and Sip program 

· International Game Month – Board games 

· January – teen and adult vision board program and follow-up in March 

· February – etiquette class and play at end (art?) 

· Censorship and potential idea: Banned books book club for parents 

Mary West (CT) 

· Art project – dot painting on coasters 

· Teen Advisory board – art every month and train for Summer Reading 

· Average attendance has been 25-30 teens for weekly programs 

· Upcoming programs include clown school and a CSI escape room 

· Showed off some recent art projects - alcohol ink tiles, ghost paintings, painted canvases 

· More staff hired at LU & HR will let us do more tween/teen programming 

Anton Littlejohn (MC) 

· Candle kit, felt mushroom chain kit, all ages Crafternoon from 2-4, 

· Recurring programs – FNAF and Demon Slayer

· PeachJar – advertise directly to parents and has contributed to an increase in program attendance

Natasha Parker (AL) & Tyler Gosdin (AL) 

· Almonte is still at Trinity Lutheran Church so come by! 

· Almonte: Successful Fall Fest 

· Working on Joy Fest kit - which has 5-8 different holiday themed activities (this year's theme is celestial). 

· Natasha’s contribution to that is a cross stich card she created using this free cross stich pattern website https://flosscross.com/ 

· Planning to start Reading Buddies in January (potential volunteer opportunity for teens) 

· Focusing on kits and programming during outreach since the Almonte library space is limited. ((lesson plan on Frankenstein, circuit (working it), escape room to name a few) 

Megan Autaubo (DC) - reporting for Joshua Jordan (DC) 

· New volunteer: Shelbie! 

· Pokémon League 

· Battlebots 

· Teen book boxes 

Ryn Lewis (ED) 

· Board game night (once a month) different board games each month 

· First young storytellers (write their own book). Applications are open for that. Start workshopping in January. 

· Bring coding back – Sphero code 

· October – spooky games and everything creepy 

· December- combination teen and adult programs – make cards and gift tags 

Kim Edwards (DN) 

· Paranormal Fest went great, over 300 attended 

· February: Local Black artist display. Know anyone? Contact Kim