Young Adult Services Meeting Minutes for May 2, 2007

YA Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Village Library 

In attendance: Emily Williams (OUT), Dana Morrow (OUT), Lisa Wood (OUT), Julie Ballou (MSL), Kelly Rains (MSL), Stacy Schrank (PL), Daniel Fields (BE), Angela Hill (CH), Tulin Lafollette (CT), Simona Long (DC), Kim Edwards (DN), Ronna Davis (ED),Teresa Matthews (ED), Sam Richards (MC), Cheryl Pernell (RE), John Hilbert (SO),Josh Schell (VI), Cheryl Coleman (WA), Barbara Beasley (WA).

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. 

Emily asked that if any of the libraries are doing Harry Potter programs that they let her know ASAP so she can include info about their programs on the promotional materials for the concert.The last HP book and the new movie are both coming out this summer.

Someone suggested having Spoticus dress up in HP gear (scarf, glasses) for the concert. 

Pioneer is hosting wizard rock band Harry and the Potters in June. They are generously working on getting our system some tickets to give away.

Lou Dean

Oklahoma author Lou Dean talked about her books and the writing process. She is currently living in Ponca City and is interested in doing free author signings/writing programs for the library system.

Teen Read Week

The theme for TRW 2007 is LOL @ Your Library. Emily passed around the artwork from YALSA and discussed the possibility of inviting OU Improv back to tour the libraries during October. She invited the programmers to look at the videos and demonstrations on the group’s website. Ronna mentioned that Comedy Commandoes would be interested in performing that month as well.

Emily also mentioned that the grant for the Wii gaming equipment was approved, and that Outreach hopes to have that available to the branches this fall.

Summer @ the Library

Stacy explained this year’s Summer @ The Library, showed the 2007 educational overview PowerPoint, and answered questions.

Materials Selection

Julie talked about the mentoring/job shadowing one­on­one training that she is doing in Materials Selection. Josh recently participated and learned more about weeding, replacements, etc.

Booktalks

Kim discussed The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

Tulin talked about Games by Carol Gorman.

Simona presented Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt.

Angela discussed Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte and passed out the article “Fiction as a Microscope for Preps” by the author from ESPN.com.

Sharing

DN – Star Wars event with Jedi OKC, Free Comic Book Day display, Fantastic Four movie and discussion with Rob Vollmar 

RE – open mic poetry night, teen meeting for advisory board start­up 

VI – asked for ideas for summer volunteer projects

CH – joint fabric craft program with children’s librarian 

DC – summer job workshop with Bob Davis

SO – junk art program with Kiona Wooton­Millirons, teen display, game­a­thon, Workforce Oklahoma’s job workshop 

BE – Oklahoma Voices

MSL – Julie introduced Kelly from Materials Selection 

ED – new format for Comedy Commandos, airplanes to astronauts

CT – Choctaw Guilt quilt 

OUT – Fancy Dancers, Oklahoma Voices, Henry Ford program had men attend 

MC – resume workshop with Bob Davis, gaming program 

WA – Barbara introduced Cheryl Coleman as the new YA programmer at WA.