Welcome and Announcements:
Emily introduced the guests and the new librarian from Ralph Ellison, Kim Ventrella.
Dana mentioned the Design Your NW Library link on the Metrolibrary.org website and encouraged everyone to contribute their ideas.
Emily presented the Del.icio.us website that she created for all the YA librarians to use as a resource. Del.icio.us/metroya is the website and she will be maintaining it with useful links for everyone to use.
Guest Presentation:
Kiona Millirons presented her programming ideas for Summer 2008. The first program is to recycle men’s ties and sew them into different creatures. The second program is to create personal shrines or altered art out of recycled materials, boxes, photographs etc. John Hilbert (SO) mentioned that he had Kiona do this program for the teens at his library with great success. Kiona shared some books in our library that have examples of this type of art.
Announcements
The group discussed plans for Free Comic Book Day. Emily mentioned the new YA Sequoyah masterlist. An example of the Road Trip drawstring bag that will be the summer teen signup prize was passed around. Emily told the group that the postcards and brochures for Summer @ the Library were being sent to the schools this week, and asked that they call the schools soon to confirm that they received and handed out the materials to every student.
Wizard Rock
The Remus Lupins will perform at Southern Oaks on August 19, 2007. The Whomping Willows and local wizard rock band Ginny & the Heartbreakers will also be part of the show. Emily passed out a handout about the wizard rock genre and encouraged the programmers to listen to the bands’ songs on their MySpace pages.
