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Children's Services Meeting - January 2015

Submitted by kwilliamson on Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:58

Introductions were made.

Family Place

Jessica Gonzalez (DN) shared information about her recent trip with Kristin Williamson (OUT) to the Family Place Institute. She distributed handouts. Kristin will provide a login for printable resources from the Family Place website. The target of Family Place is babies and toddlers (0-5 years). A discussion was held about toys and family friendly children’s areas. Various staff shared best practices and specific toys (panels, puzzles, blocks) that they have found useful. Two Family Place videos were shown. A MAC request for play signs is in the works.

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Family Place, Summer Reading, Neighborhood Arts, Volunteers, SignUp, Spaces

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for October 2006

Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 00:00

Welcome:
Lisa read Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Exist by Mo Willems. The staff introduced themselves to guest Adrienne Butler, the new youth coordinator at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.

Handouts:
CV of Maria Elena Escribano de Ruffin (bilingual children’s artist), “Learning through Play at the Public Library” by Sandra Feinberg, “Lack of Creative Playtime Plagues Children” by Karen Uhlenhuth, a children’s literature quiz, “Fun Learning Games” from the August 2006 Parents, children and teen 2006 summer reading sign-up/goal statistics

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Reading Program, Volunteers, Family Place

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for April 2005

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/13/2005 - 00:00

LaVetta Dent welcomed everyone and passed out a handout from Jeanne Devlin in MAC. Jeanne advised that MAC has a number of free things (stickers, disposable watches, and other movie-oriented trinkets) that can be used as giveaways at children’s programs. Just contact MAC if you would like some items for giveaways.

LaVetta also announced that we should be receiving the Sam Noble Museum tickets for the Summer Book Program this week. She also informed us that the museum has some interesting traveling exhibits. Their website lists them and provides details about the cost of hosting these exhibits.
Heidi Port cannot be here today for the meeting. She believes she covered everything about volunteers for the Summer Book Program at the retreat. If anyone has questions, please email Heidi or contact LaVetta.

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Reading Program, Databases, Volunteers, Family Place

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for December 2004

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/08/2004 - 00:00

Volunteer procedure changes - Heidi Port, DVS (handout – packet)
Heidi Port passed out handouts and summarized the procedural changes for MLS volunteers. Forms will be available on Intranet and Internet (when appropriate). A request to have the Teen forms online in January. There are three types of volunteers: 1) Teen; 2) Adult; 3) Court appointed. The volunteer time sheets will now be due quarterly.

Background Checks and Badges: Adult volunteers have background checks and photo ID badges. Teen and court appointed volunteers do not have background checks and will use volunteer badges kept at the library. The background check form will automatically print with the adult volunteer application form. Send the background check form to Volunteer Services in a sealed white envelop. Do not keep the background check form or a copy of it in your office or library. Because background checks cost money, let Heidi know if you want one performed or if you do not need this individual for volunteer work.

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Volunteers, Background Checks, Identifications, School, Family Place

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for August 2004

Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/05/2004 - 00:00

Summer Reading Report – Dana, LaVetta
The library system showed an increase of 440 participants. Discussion: concerns of the medals; publicity of the drawings; need for drawings at libraries; confusion about the drawings and winners at the ballgame, and library presentation at the ballpark. Lisa Wood recommended that libraries have teen volunteers individually bag the medal and tickets together for ease of presenting the awards to the children. (Dana Morrow stressed our program would improve with better communications next year.)

Please send in the sign up cards to Outreach for research on the schools that participated.

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Reading Program, Family Place

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for August 2003

Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/20/2003 - 00:00

New Program Ideas, Cynthia Daniel Wolf, Program Presenter
Cynthia gave handouts and demonstrations of “History Told Through Music: The Cattle Drive Area” and Sing out for children and families emphasizing her audience participation. Cynthia lives in OKC, and her Paseo studio number is: 525-4039 or home 525-4365. (Cynthia is in the system’s performer database.)

Summer at the Library – Dana Morrow and Scott Carter
Neighborhood Arts, etc. – Dana asked for comments about 2003 performers; response was good. The list of 2004 performers will come later. LaVetta will be arranging Michael Corley for the last week performer for those who want and will pay for his presentation; she will arrange and handle the paper work. Next summer Lucky Penny Players are having their 20th Anniversary.

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Reading Program, Family Place

Ad-Team Meeting Minutes May 2003

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/20/2003 - 00:00

Judy handed out a draft of updated safety rules and administrative procedures. Scott will handle rewording for the final draft.

Scott showed the poster for the teen summer reading program and played the TV spots for the summer reading program "Dig It". These spots will begin running now through June 30th. He also passed around brochures and sign up packets for the summer reading program.

Dana said that the Blood Hag presentation last night at Southern Oaks was well received. Carl's Jr. provided burgers for the crowd of 200.

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Safety, Surveys, Reading Program, Confidentiality, Family Place

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for April 2003

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/09/2003 - 00:00

Celebrity Readers: Rondia, RE – invited fireman. Mary, DN had Michael Corley

Toddler Aerobics: Carolyn, SO will have it again in August, because people asked for more. Fran, DC, had an evening session, and served juice & teddies afterward. Lisa, VI, stressed the importance of starting with stretches before and after the “work out.” VI offers every other month and to head starts. LaVetta said that this program brings out new people and helps fill story times. Cheryll, MWC, had a father video tape the whole event. Edmond had a big response. Karen Lehr wants to show ED Staff to generate interest in helping offer this program. Use the carpet squares, but run out side the carpet squares—not on them, because they could slide, slip and fall. Talk about going in and out of the circle.

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Reading Program, Family Place

Manager of Library Operations Meeting Minutes for July 2002

Submitted by tgoggins on Wed, 07/24/2002 - 00:00

LaVetta passed out information about the new teacher orientation luncheon August 5-6 and library card policies for schools that they use at Village. Please let her know if the policies are different at other libraries and if that information needs to be included in the policies. She discussed a flyer on the licensee database, and a power point presentation that will be presented by Scott Carter, Julie Mock, Susan Ryan, and herself. She discussed the general services such as tours and gave a demonstration of the CyberMARS. Robin will talk about free Internet access. Judy Moss and Susan will talk about elementary teaches in the morning and secondary teachers in the afternoon at Belle Isle. Scott stated that Public Relations would help with marketing bags and resources for other libraries planning teacher orientations. Be sure to inform PR of the date and time.

Rosemary passed out pictures of the Choctaw library groundbreaking ceremony and said it was wonderful. The grand opening is expected in August 2003.

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Family Place, CyberMars, Marketing, Core Competencies, Internet

X-Change Meeting Minutes for May 20, 2002

Submitted by dbeach on Sun, 05/19/2002 - 15:00

Our vision: “The Metropolitan Library System is Oklahoma County’s premiere information, education and entertainment resource.”
Our group exists to:
Focus on our target, i.e.: our mission
Clarify our roles
Bridge our communication gap to help us be ‘on the same page’
At each meeting you can count on a few things:
Comments from our Executive Director
A mini-workshop designed to increase supervisor’s awareness and understanding of major directions that the library is developing
Time for eXchange where participants will share experiences and/or thoughts about common issues and challenges for the purposes:
Focusing on exchanging the vast amount of information each of us have
Providing the opportunity for us to learn from one another
Identifying best practices in our system and elsewhere

Tags: 
Strategic Plan FY 07-12, Family Place

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