YA Services Meeting Minute Archive

Breakfast and visiting

Emily called the meeting to order.
Updates

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.

Welcome to Taryn Kingery (new YA librarian at RE) and Anna Todd (new YA librarian at BI)

SRP Volunteer Stuff
Message from Heidi: keep sending in hard copies of volunteer applications; call her with any questions; keep plugging away.

Read a Book in 10 Mins
Kim at DN and Kellie are working to create a quick read database. Programmers can add entries to the database; simple form, just fill in the fields. The database can be filtered by title/author/keyword/audience. Brief discussion about the possibility of linking this database to NoveList or LibraryThing.

Emily made some brief announcements to open the meeting: Janet says Melissa will be returning soon to MSL, ODL has a children’s & YA book review podcast, Maureen Johnson will be coming to MLS from April 5-7, 2011, and all of the YA services team should read at least one of her books before the visit.

Dana had some announcements as well: Elaine Hoffman-Watts and the Fabulous Speilkehs are coming for Our World, SO is still looking for a temporary building, and the YA services team should email Dana if they’re like to be added to her email list for when presenters are coming.

Kiona Millirons talked about workshop ideas for teen programming. These included collaborative postcards, post-crossing, paper bead crafts with a “sense of place” and unusual, wearable art to represent the artist’s/participant’s community, etc.

Announcements:
Programmers discussed a text list for those who could receive and send text messages. Emily took up a list and emailed it to those wishing to participate. A closed group Facebook page was set up for programmers and outreach to chat back and forth with ideas and programming questions.

Emily reminded programmers of ODL’s wiki, chat, and Twitter accounts.

There will be a Wizard Rock tour this summer and the groups will be in the OKC area July 24th if anyone would like to host the program.

Emily will begin to visit the Juvenile Detention centers again. Once per quarter, and if any programmer would like to visit as well they need to contact her at outreach.