Monday, August 31, 2020

August 2020 YSS Board Meeting Minutes

Wisconsin Library Association

Youth Services Section Board Meeting

Friday, August 28th

2pm - 3pm

Present: Katherine Schoofs, Marge Loch-Wouters, Anne Hamland, Sue Abrahamson,

Florence LeBeau, Katie Kiekhafer, Tess Schmidt, Susie Menk, Emily Zorea, Jenny Wegener

Welcome

Old Business:

Public/School Libraries Group - (Katie) Anne & Tessa

● finalize visual report of 2019 survey DPI & YSS blog

● Share out WLA Facebook, emails

● WLA newsletter; discussion & observation about group dynamics; give school folks a

break

● Emily--exciting time for collaboration between libraries and schools; school librarians

invited to table in ways never before


YSS Luncheon - Katie

● cancelled due to COVID-19

● pass along to Michael maybe keep in reserve for next year; great to work with and

excited about opportunity


Marketing Committee - Anne & Katherine

● started YouTube channel

● awesome virtual library tours-put on blog

● Hannah Bunting wonderful helper-helped with MailChimp

● highlighting blog posts that are top notch

● submitted something WLA newsletter

● consistency is working

● standardized yss chair email is helping


New Business:

DPI Youth Update: Tessa

● webinar about Beanstack going well

● Beanstack up until 2023

● share out new things for this fall

● end of summer survey through CLSP looking for feedback not found in annual report

● state putting together professional learning options for library staff on stress & burnout

Compassion Resilience Toolkit look for in Nov/Dec

● fall sign-up for Project Ready: self paced online study on race/culture for library staff for

school & public library cohorts

● CCBC updated website with new search features especially diversity books and statistics


COVID-19 - How can we continue providing support to library staff serving youth and families?

● WE ROCK

● Provide opportunities for get togethers and sharing ideas and support

● Keep social piece of WLA going

● Share early literacy calendar--best of ….

● Teen librarians getting together (maybe roll into SIG)


YSS Elections - Katie

● WLA elections YSS should go forward

● Director at large

● Chair

● WLA liaison

● Don’t want to miss opportunity/ nominees are still on board/ service to members

● Emily motioned to go forward, 2nd Susie


YSS Blog - Katherine & Marge

● Still happening

● Marge took over--doing great!

● Over 573,000 views, great commitment

● Doubled our average views since COVID-19

● Contributions-encourage others to send a blog post

● Took Facebook questions and shared out on blog

● National followers

● Clean up tags on posts--send to board to look at; use subject based cloud based on tags

● Assign people to keep track of key social media groups to highlight on blog

● Teen post of the week--looking for someone


YSS Powerhouse/Virtual Regional Meet Ups - Flo & Katie

● Great fun!

● Do it again?--every quarter (3 months)

● Great sharing/collaboration

● Lots of libraries to share


Conference Committees

● WLA - officially cancelled

○ Virtual YSS Hang?

■ Virtual escape room

■ Virtual mad libs

■ Virtual YSS luncheon--couple different activities

■ Still do a speaker

■ Talent show

■ Beanstack speaker

■ YSS membership virtual meeting--October 15th in afternoon

■ Google doc for planning


Storytime Resource

Linked to blog

○ Needs some promotion

○ Make it searchable


Form Letter

○ Letter to help say why YSS and WLA

○ Welcome letter for YSS new members (potential member)

○ Katherine and Susie will work on


YA SIG

○ Jenny point person

○ Connect with YA group--Taylor Wilcox (Waupace Public Library Teen person)

○ Got some responses


YSS Membership Committee

● On hold for now

● Need to clarify before starting

● Helpful to have letter ready first


Children's Book Award Comiittee - Katherine

● Winners

○ Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach - WINNER

○ 10 Notable Honor Titles

○ List on YSS blog

○ Notable Author Winner - Kashmira Sheth

○ Katherine Chair; Julia Chair elect for next year


WLA Board Report Liaison - Sue

● WLA next meeting September 11

● Elections/Conferences concerns

● Financial strains

● Survey results were mixed

● Leadership Development Institute uncertain

● Contingency plans for other conferences


Respectfully submitted by

Susie Menk, YSS Secretary

August 28, 2020

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