Young Adult Services Meeting Minutes for May 7, 2008

YA Meeting
Date: May 7, 2008

Festival of Books – Emily Williams

• October 30th  $80 

Writing Camp -- Al Serradell

• Works with both teens and adults  
• Encourages them to publish 
• Each course is two hours, two block workshop 
• Workshop is around $500 but will work with you 

Introductions

• Everyone introduced themselves to Cyndi, the new YA programmer at Choctaw 

Summer @ the Library-- Stacy Schrank

• Passed out materials 
• The materials are the same as last year only the prizes are different 
• Summer Reading training is on the internet and can be accessed on library computers 
• To display the training use the library laptop and projector or it will be burned to a DVD 
• Everyone, both staff and volunteer, must watch  
• Janet has a reading list the covers books on metamorphosis 

Volunteers – Heidi Port

• T-shirts should be arriving soon  
• Order staff t-shirts now 
• Volunteer timesheets have changed 
• To learn about the new timesheets go to “Employee” on the intranet home page and go to “Trainng.” Then go to “Task Guides & Tools” and open Volunteer Timesheet Training 
• Timesheets needt to be routed and emailed to Heidi twice. Once by June 30th and then by August 1st 
• Make sure to think about what color your volunteers are and how they can best help.  
• Be supportive to your volunteers 

Herd any Good Books – Stacy Schrank

• Promoting audio books for Summer of Reading 
• Stacy has a sheet to help explain Overdrive 

Free Comic Book Day  -- Emily Williams

• A rack display seemed to work well for Edmond  
• Putting the address on posters of participating comic book stores would help direct people to area stores. Teen Read Month – Emily Williams
• Pass out copies of  “Sucks to be You” to TAG and teens 
• Possible programs to do include:  
• Vampire/Zombie sock puppets craft program 
• Graffiti Art program 
• Twilight Party 
• Monster Movies Makeup  

Sharing – Everyone

• Downtown: Film program went well 
• Edmond: Wizard Rock coming up  
• Villiage: Improv Group  
• Warr Acres: Music video- Myspace is better then your space  
• Del City: New tables for teen area 
• Choctaw: Movie night  
• Belle Isle: Bug cookies, Cupcakes and insect mazes for Summer of Reading  
• Midwest City: Chess tournament 
• Ralph Ellison: Poetry slam 
• Southern Oaks: Photo project