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.
Thank you to Del City for letting us use the meeting space. Introductions.
Free comic book day: First Saturday in May. Outreach will get the comic books from ODL and route them to you. Make sure to have at least one staff member working that day that knows what's going on. Go to the free comic book website to see the list of comic books being offered this year. We try to get all ages books but please make sure to be careful not to let children get teen rated comics. Buck at New World Comics offered his services to Annie but sadly they won’t be open yet. If you want to set up a bigger program, you should call him. He might even have his staff dress up and hand out for the comics for you.
We have lots of March programs coming up. Teen Tech, After School at your Library, Hunger Games - We just got the Hunger Games cookbook and the sound track.
