Sunday, April 11, 2021

March 2021 YSS Board Minutes


Friday, March 26, 2021 

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Present:  Jenny Wegener, Taylor Wilcox, Claire Parrish, Katherine Schoofs, Susie Menk, Melissa Carollo, Florence Le Beau,  Linda Jerome. Guest: Marge Loch-Wouters 

Welcome  

 Old Business:   

 

Lapsed Members  (The stuff below was from our discussion last time, let’s continue to look at it and discuss ways to retain and recruit YSS members) 

  • Updated list? 

  • Try to contact members that you know or have connections to 

  • Reach out to others that have never been WLA members or not recent members 

  • Tessa would be willing to email system people, connecting them with a YSSer - - Linda will be the filter, either contacting the interested person or passing the message along to another Board member 

  • Check with system people to find out who is new and then board members can reach out to them  

  • Claire will type something up for recruiting new members  

  • See email from Claire (send 2/26/2021) 

  • As people rejoin/re-sign up or sign up for the first time send a Welcome letter from a current YSS member (make it personal) 

  • For next meeting share experience with lapsed and new members 

  • Contact Hannah and get a list of new members to reach out to 

  • Linda discusses what type of value we can offer people who are YSS members, a reason to be a member.  We should be thinking about what we can  do as members?   

  • Future:  plan some sort of new member welcome (Florence) 

  • Make part of WAPL MadLibs? 

  • Discounted admission price? 

  • Prizes to attend/Scholarships? 

  • Do separate program for new members in fall -- celebrate the end of summer 

  • Meet for coffee? 

  • Game/social about end of summer? 

  • Talk about doing this annually or several times per year--spring and fall? 

  • Encourage new members to go to conference 

  • “Meet the  Board”? Plan for September   

 

New Business: 

DPI Youth Update: Tessa unable to attend 

 

Committee Reports 

Marketing Committee - Katherine, Melissa, Sarah 

  • create marketing materials for WAPL goodies  

  • Teen panel--Taylor send Katherine info to put out  

  • Mad Libs After Hours-- 7:00 pm on May 4! 

 

Conference Committee 

  • WAPL: 4-person teen panel discussing how to find social media and digital platforms to find teens  

  • Virtual Youth Lit Mad-Lib Social event 

  • Promote the wazoo out of WAPL & WLA - - get those YSSers there! 

 

Children’s Book Award Committee 

  • Reading, reading, reading 

  • How many books?  started with 97 books  

  • Board books up to teen  

  • Put together a book list to share out on YSS blog 

  • *Who are members?  Can we add their names here? 

  • Katherine Schoofs--chair 

  • Julia Lee--chair elect  

  • Ashley Borman - aborman@clintonvillelibrary.org 

  • Sara Christopherson - sara@grantsburg.wislib.org 

  • Murray Johnson - MJohnson@marshfieldlibrary.org 

  • Julia Lee - jlee@manitowoc.org 

  • Katherine Schoofs - aramkids@aramlibrary.org 

  • Emily Stueven - eastuev@milwaukee.gov 

  • Briony Zlomke - briony.zlomke@mcfls.org 

 

YSS Blog--Marge 

  • WLA newsletter - - blog posts shared there to help promote YSS and our awesomeness - - double dip action 

  • Letter to lapsed members/new members 

  • Share out exceptional posts in an email blast 

  • Keep pushing out our AWESOME stuff! 

 

YSS Virtual Meet Ups--Florence 

  • Nobody lined up as of right now 

  • Looking for May 20th @ 2:30 p.m.  (need two) 

 

School-Public Libraries Group 

  • Next meeting: Wednesday May 12 4-5pm  

  • Join Zoom Meeting     https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88205890421 

  • Working hard to bring in more school libraries 

  • Larger invitation going out to talk about collaboration between school and public libraries 

  • Changing focus: trying to get WLA, YSS and WEMTA to have a closer working relationship, collaborations, and networking 

  • Sharing examples of what we can do out to others throughout the state 

  • WEMTA overwhelmed, keep working with YSS 

  • Blog post on April 12th--contact information available 

 

WLA Liaison report--Linda Jerome  

  • Plummer’s last day was February 26 

  • Interview for new executive director 

  • Offer from a consultant from Illinois pro bono to get candidates 

  • Hoping for new person to start this summer 

  • WLA conference in person in Green bay as of now 

  

Meeting dates

April 16th at 1:30 p.m. 

May 14th at 1:30 p.m.  


Respectfully submitted, 

Susie Menk 

YSS Secretary 

March 30, 2021 

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