Children's Services Meeting Minutes for October 2010

Date:  October 6, 2010: 1:00pm

Location:  Midwest City Library

In Attendance: Lisa Wood (OUT), Dana Morrow (OUT), Emily Williams (OUT), Kelley Riha (OUT), Janet Brooks (MSL), Kay Bauman (PLA), Barb Johnson (BI), Daniel Fields (BE), Jennifer Jones (CH), Carol Roberts (CT), Fran Harbert (DC), Rondia Banks (DN), Jana Hausberg (DN), Mary Ann Johnson (ED), Carol Hunter (ED), Kristin Williamson (MC), JoAnn Walkup (RE), Cheryll Jones (SO), Sally Gray (VI), Alma Brown (WA), Galen Hembry (Pioneer Library System), Adrienne Butler (ODL)

Welcome and Announcements from Lisa

• Trip Around the World will continue though 2014
• Current contact person is Arlena Hamby
• Students receive a passport in hopes they will travel to different library locations.
• Production Theater will present A Mid Summer Nights Dream in February, March and April
• There will be three workshops. One for Children, Teens and Adults
• ED and RE will present the Children’s Workshops
• The Theater will be present in your library location all day long. The work shop starts at 11:00am and the performance is at 2:00pm
• Black History Month
• Dwe Williams will present Baseball, Boley and Bed Pans which is a mix of three different Oklahoma Black History stories.
• 1-2-3 Play with Me Spring Calendar is coming up. Be prepared to give dates to Lisa
• OKC Philharmonic will be hosting a Bravo Dr. Seuss Concert in January
• Plan to have a Dr. Seuss related program in your library sometime before Jan. 16th
• Early Bird and Sooner Enroll
• There are 60,000 children in Oklahoma that are eligible for free health care and are not currently enrolled through SoonerCare. They will receive free dental care, free check-ups, free immunizations … Look for information on how to enroll
• E-mail Lisa if you need more board books for babies first books or if you would like to have board books for your last 1-2-3 play with me session.
• New die cuts are available: a box, a car, a fire truck.

Presentations

Molly O’Connor (Arts Council Touring Roster)
Molly introduced us to the Arts Council Roster of Artist Database.
There are two different Rosters: One for Teaching / Education Arts and a Second for Touring / Performing Artist.
The Teaching / Education Roster the artist have to complete an application and go through an OSBI background check.
The rosters are organized by genre or name.
This is a great way to find something new for your library.
You directly call the artist. You don’t need to go through the Arts Council.

Katia Vissers (Dance for Kids and Crafts – Brazil)
35 years Dance experience
Dance can heal our minds, body, soul and spirit
Katia uses the 5 senses to teach dance and music
Builds Confidence
Brazilian Crafts
Capoeira – a mix between martial arts and dance

Monica Buck (Juggling) - Juggle What Ever
Monica will teach juggling to kids 10 and up or 9 and under but the 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
7 Step program to teach Catching and Keeping the balls in the air

1. Drop
2. Juggle one ball
3. Juggle two balls

30 min – 1 hr. Prefers smaller groups 15 – 20 people

Patrick Riley (Mask Making)
Man of many arts: Masks, magic, Reading, Ventriloquism, puppets
Works with all age groups
He has been a teacher for 45 years

Hannah Harder – Nature Inc. (Environment and Nature Programming)
Hannah will work with you to create an outdoor learning environment
Hannah read a story “Compost Stew: A to Z recipe for the earth,” by Mary McKenna
Siddals. Then we sorted items into compost, recycle, or trash. Great program for Children.

Brendan Parker (Spaghetti Eddie)
Look him up at BrendanParkerMusic.com
He played at Learning Tree and Full Circle bookstore

Sharing

Emily from Outreach– Podcast
Good way to keep up with new books
Link on ODL website
YA Litlovers
CYA Podcast
Advertised in Shelf Life

Sally - VI
News print available in rolls at the Oklahoman
Free to libraries; available Mon – Fri 9 to 5
Summer Reading – Teen Volunteers only gave out sign-up packets, then they gave tickets for the other prizes. The Summer Reading participant took the ticket to the circulation desk to claim their prize. This worked well for VI.

VI had a Wall of Volunteers – they had pictures of all their volunteers. Each week a star was placed on an outstanding volunteer for a volunteer of the week award.  Science Museum Clayton Moore is wonderful RE had a Wall of Volunteers too. Just take a picture and print it on our library printer.

Rondia - DN
39 Clues Party at the DN library Saturday Oct. 16th. Anyone who would like to borrow the props and have their own 39 clues party is welcome to contact Rondia.

Daniel - BE
This summer there was a Parade at Bethany for Volunteers. Daniel asked the volunteers to wear Red, White and Blue items. They made a banner and passed out stickers.

Jennifer - CH
Hispanic Expo at CH went great. They made sail boats and had a race. They gave away 700 books. They had a band named Rum Fellows

Joann - RE
RE saw an increase in return participants to claim prizes.
Juneteenth generates a lot of interest in the summer reading program.

Dana Morrow - OutReach
Dana has received 5 calls directly related to Kim in Marketing’s advertisement for Booktoberfest.
Dana encouraged us to put what we are reading on the bottom of our e-mails. It generates conversation.
Check out the web twitter feed
Son Del Barrio concerts are in full swing and going well

Mary Ann - ED
ED Summer Reading program saw 47, 000 children. The return numbers were up this year. Neighborhood arts programs went well. Lisa and Emily were wonderful. ED had water games outside with a make believe water fall and a rubber raft.

Barbara - BI
BI Summer Reading program went smooth as silk. Suggested that we look into Sign-up online for next year. BI has started Music with Tamera classes.

Fran - DC
Summer Reading went well at DC. There were more teens than ever before.
Super Saturday at DC went great, there was a fire truck, the science museum, snakes, and authors Dr. Steel, David Roper, Glenn Hooks and Jana Hausberg and then the Runfellows Band.

Kay Bauman – Library Operations
It is time again to present the commission with updates to our Strategic Plan. Did you know you can enter items all year long? Stuart has created an nice spread sheet on the intranet.

Janet Brooks – Material Selection
Please be patient with Material Selection at this moment in time. Melissa is out until the middle of November, so Janet is trying to do two jobs.

Kristin - MWC
MWC saw high numbers for the summer reading program this year and high return numbers too. Kristin is working with the Parents as Teachers program. She is working with local schools to present an in school gaming program. She takes the video games to the schools every 9 weeks and those students who have read the most minutes may play.

Alma - WA
Lego Club
See attached WA Summer Reading Evaluation

Cheryl - SO
Summer Reading Kick-off Party
SO has black tarps, black lights, for a black art party. You have children or teens paint or draw pictures with florescent paint or markers. With the black lights it gives a 3D effect.
Savannah Mitchell gave an art show at SO
Consider doing a 1-2-3 Play with Me on a Saturday. SO had a Saturday program and it drew people from all over OKC.

Carol - ED
For a Family Place Craft, ED did a Food Art. Carol Googled Food Art and received several ideas.
Better sign-up this summer and a good increase in return participants receiving goal 1 and goal 2 prizes. Circ desk supported “Book of Awesome”