Young Adult Services Meeting Minutes for April 2012

Date:  April 25, 2012
Location:  Bethany Library

Attendance: Emily Williams, Kellie Delaney, Janet Brooks, Mary Sholly, John Hilbert, Anna Todd, Dana Morrow, Taryn Kingery, Teresa Matthews, Tera McAmis, Cheryl Coleman, Dana Phillips, Heidi Port, Lisa Wood, Suzette Felton, Debbie McPherson

Guest: Adrienne Butler, ODL

Getting Started - Emily Williams

Teresa brought her pin from when she was a teen volunteer in 1978. She decided to become a librarian when she volunteered as a teen.

Everybody was given a save the date card for the festival of books, this festival is held every 2 years. Each year they have different Children’s and YA authors. Everybody should try to attend.

Free comic book day May 5th. ODL has started to receive the books, and we will try to get them in our office this week and ready to route. Witchblade will be included in the comics, it is not an all ages comic. Set these aside and hand out to adults rather than to children.

You have posters for Summer programs. Everybody was given posters for each program whether it is at your library or not. Everybody was given extra copies of the posters for the programs that they will have at their library, feel free to post them in your community. Emily will be sending out the PDF files so you can email them and print extras on your own.

If you are doing the juggling program with Monica this Summer, Emily has ordered glow sticks for the programs and will be routing them near the end of May. If you have extras left over either give them to Monica or route to another library that is having that program.

CYA Podcast – Doing lots of book reviews. Will be reviewing Ready Player One in May. http://yalitlovers.oklibshare.org/

Volunteer Update - Heidi Port

Heidi created a power point explaining the volunteer software that she can email you.

If you do not type the www on the web address www.supportmls.org/volunteer the site will not come up.

For a volunteer to be assigned to an opportunity they need to complete the sign up and referral process on the volunteer website.

If you have a volunteer that has been a problem and we do not want them to volunteer again, they can be placed as inactive and will not be able to log in or volunteer again.
When you get the weekly reports they come through as note pad documents. You can change these to an excel document by either copy and pasting (or pasting special) into excel, saving the file then through excel choose the data tab, click “get external data” and select the file. You want to choose the “tab” option on how to sort the info out.

If you have been having trouble with logging volunteer hours, some of the Internet explorer versions that we have in the library don't work with the volunteer sign in. Heidi will send you a link to be able to log in. you will have to copy and paste that code, not just click on it, and you will have access to the site. IT is working on getting this straightened out so we don’t have to use this extra step.

Once a volunteer has changed their pass code, Heidi no longer has access to it. If the volunteer forgets the pass code, call Heidi and she can reset it. Do NOT make a new profile for the volunteer.

There are 3 options for volunteer time sheets.

1. Sign in and out each time
2. Time scheduled on the calendar
3. Volunteers can log in and out at home and you have the option to change/approve these hours.

There are good and bad things about each option. NW is using option 2. Everybody is automatically set up for option 1. Heidi suggests using option 1 for summer volunteers.

Heidi will make cheat sheets with the steps for signing up for Summer Reading Volunteers and put them on the volunteer resources tab so that everybody can access and print them.

New Intranet - Kellie Delaney

Handed out a cheat sheet about the intranet.

Everybody should log in to the intranet and discover all the awesome things we have added. You have a great opportunity to add you input to everything from general discussions, book lists, even the strategic plan.

Do a SASi search, you can narrow it down by content type and date. You won't have to worry about being inundated by useless stuff.

YA Services committee has their own page. Included will be meeting archives and members. Committee talk forum is only viewable by YA service committee members. If you want to add more committee topics, let Kellie know or add it yourself.

Looking to unroll a social commenting ability on the intranet. You will be able to "like" comments and activities. Also coming soon will be subscriptions and updates to the forum being able to be emailed to you.

Materials Selection Update – Janet Brooks

On the new intranet there are procedures for requesting replacements for playaways. Regardless of how long we have had it, we get free replacements for life on these, as long as it's a defect and not customer misuse. If a copy is missing, do a regular replacement request like you would for any other material. When sending a defective playaway to Tech, always double check the issue rather than trust the customer. Change the batteries, use different headphones, if it is still having issues, then send it in. All libraries will get playaways next fiscal year.

There is a non-fiction webinar coming up on May 1st. Suggests looking into taking it. We do a great job at promoting fiction, let's work on non-fiction.

Utilize book displays to promote programs. Some interesting ideas for one could be a "back" display; Books that only show peoples backs on the front cover.
When using iWeed, don't send in lists that have no actions.

Booktalks

Teresa - Pure by Julianna Baggott. This book comes up in adult but is geared towards YA. There is a nuclear holocaust in NY those in the domes are Pures, those on the outside of the domes were fused to whatever they were with when the holocaust happened. Such as if you were with a baby doll, the baby doll would be fused to your hand. Partridge grew up in the domes and is questioning his existence. It is never said what is happening in other parts of the world. At the age of the main character you have to go turn yourself into the "dome" to either be a warrior or if your mutations are too bad, a target. This is book #1 in a trilogy.

Emily - Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral. Not a traditional narrative, told in pictures, art, found objects, post cards. You don't ever read anything but notes and IM's. It's a mystery. When you reach the end you want to go back and read it again to figure out what happened.

John - For the Win by Cory Doctorow. It's a really cool book, kinda has a lot of business theory in it. This kid goes online and plays games with groups of kids in China. They work to build up characters for gamers so that they don’t have to do it themselves. There is a lot of labor history, economic stuff. It's great.

Taryn - Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Alternative history novel about Lincoln’s life. You will learn lots of real facts, and the most unknown fact, he was in-fact a vampire hunter. He made it his goal in life to take revenge on all vampires after they killed his mother. This all runs along the time of him running for president and during the process you get lots of great action scenes.

On a side note,there is a website that goes with Chopsticks, music videos, youtube, and even an app.
Adrienne - The difference Between you and Me by Madeleine George. About 2 girls who have a relationship but something comes between them. Very descriptive. It's a very fun and well written book.

Pop Culture Quiz

Summer Reading – Emily

Everybody got a small packet of Teen Summer Reading marketing. You'll start getting PDF and posters soon. All the game boards for the different age groups will look different and be different sizes. The teen ones are small enough to fit into their pocket even. We bought small 3 tier carts to give away your summer books on, after the Summer they can come back to Outreach and we will hold them until next year when we will use them again. We will get those out to you soon. We ordered the books through Scholastic so there are hundreds of titles. All the books will be gifts from Sonic so they will have Sonic stickers on each book. Sonic donated $25,000 for the books. Goal 1 prize will be coupon booklets. The training will address the step by step instructions, but for the most part, they are also included on the game board.
We will see how it goes this year with the changes; there will probably be some changes for next year.

Sharing

Adrienne – 2013 Summer Reading theme for next year is underground; Dig Deep Read children, and couldn’t remember the teen slogan . 2014 Children’s is Fizz Boom Read, and Spark Reaction for teens, all about science. 2015 Super Heroes!
Kim - May 5th Free comic book day going to have crafts, and May 6th sixth annual ICBIST film festival. July 7th how to survive a zombie attack lock in.
Teresa - Voting today on the Peeps, there were only 6 entries. Comic Book Day, got some Super hero tots to display and give away. Did the tool box jewelry it was a lot of fun. Putting info in local paper about Summer volunteering.
John- Doing tutoring, hunger games, crafts, and anime club.
Anna - Started doing yu-gi-oh tournaments. After a year of waiting the elevator has finally been fixed! :) This morning a Circ Clerk got stuck in it. :(
Dana - Passing around Neighborhood Arts schedules. We brought in all the extension libraries this year. Using 2 different schedules and touring different acts at libraries during same week. Gustafer Yellowgold is coming to NW and VI also going to about 4 schools with Lisa during the month of May.
Debbie - Doesn't like the lemonade(she made it). Had babysitter training, was successful. You-gi-oh tournaments. BE will be closed for duct work, air conditioning work, and a new roof.
Dana - Had 2 anime clubs and the Pizza and Plots book club. Doing Comic book up cycling in May. Needs comic books if you have them.
Taryn - Just did candy sushi with anime club. It was really fun but be prepared for them to be bouncing off the walls. Did a little bit of an out of the box program; rap poetry night. Only had 5 people come but it was a blast. Talked about the history of rap and how it ties into poetry. Each kid was given a notebook and then got to perform their rap.
Tera - Going to go to Full Circle on Friday. Going to see Ezra James do Hip Hop Yoga. James has 50 different movements, and can do a 5-10 week program. Had a successful International Festival. Going to do the Tai Chi Training so she can lead classes in the Fall.
Suzette - Doing the Hip Hop yoga. Doing reptile and amphibian camp again, this will be the 4th year. Focusing a lot on displays. Been creating displays of books similar to Hunger Games to feed the need since the books are