September 2020 YSS Board Minutes

Youth Services Section Board Meeting

Friday, September 25, 2020    2pm - 3pm 

 Present: Katherine Schoofs, Jenny Wegener, Emily Zorea, Sue Abrahamson, Susie Menk

Welcome

Old Business:

• Public/School Libraries Group - Katie & Tessa
• Marketing Committee - Anne & Katherine
• Early Literacy Calendar Best-Of - anyone interested in taking the helm on this?
• Form Letter - Susie wrote up a basic layout, she and Katherine will continue tweaking it

New Business:

DPI Youth Update - Tessa

YSS Elections - Katie & Katherine

YSS Blog - Katherine

• New Regular Blogger - Sarah Cournoyer!  Early Literacy-focused Fridays
• Emily is working with Marge on the blog tag project - - they will be reviewing the tags with a social justice methodology!

 

YSS Powerhouse/Virtual Regional Meet Ups - Flo & Katie

• Flo is working on a second meet-up for November 12th at 2:30 pm. So far, Karen Wendt from the Monona Library is planning on hosting--Flo is working on finding another host

Conference Committees - Katherine & Sue

• WLA - officially cancelled...HOWEVER!  WLA LOVED our YSS Hang idea!  And so...
• WLA Greatest Hits One Day Virtual Event – Wednesday, November 11 (1:00-5:00)
• Registration Fee: $20 or $25 TBD
• Includes YSS Virtual Luncheon (Goal is 45-60 minutes)
• Speaker possibility:  Geoff Herbach, award winner, or Kashmira Sheth, notable author designee
• Send Geoff Herbach plaque, have him open during the award presentation?? Check with Amy
• WLA Office (Plumer, Hannah, Tom) need to know the order of the program so they know when to switch presenters; they will also need information for the promotion of the event to membership.
• Geoff screen--speech @ 30 minutes, leave time for Q&A
• Amy screen--introduction, present award
• Katherine-- voice for Q&A towards end, announce honor books with slides of book covers, intro Kashmira Sheth (talk/video??)

YA SIG - Jenny

• Sat in on a virtual meeting with Taylor Wilcox (Waupaca) and several other Teen Services people on Monday, Sept. 14.  I was super impressed by all of their energy and good ideas for teens.  They were receptive to the idea of a SIG as a way to extend the reach of their meet-up events.  Some of the cool ideas they discussed were virtual haunted house tours -- scan a QR code and see a YouTube video, a civil war bike tour -- I think this is something that Waupaca is doing, and doing art/creative projects in October -- “Inktober” might be copyrighted but “Art-tober” might be good. 
• I have gotten back to Taylor asking for her input about the best way to facilitate interaction for Teen Services librarians.  I haven’t heard anything yet.  Any thoughts on best ways to pull together interested librarians?  Email?  FB group? 
• Keep Teen SIG under auspices of YSS to help support them, welcoming space for them
• Linda Jerome (WLA Liaison ballot) will support growth of Teen SIG

Cross-Unit Collaborative Work with Outreach Services Round Table - Sue

• YSS presence is enviable by other units
• Outreach Services Round Table looking for ways to energize this group
• Logical collaboration--many YSS members do a lot of outreach
• How can we work together? Ambassador?
• Share ideas for their newsletter
• Sue will check on MemberClicks to find people who are crossovers
• WLA memberships need to stay relevant 

YSS Lapsed Memberships

• Many memberships lapsed due to not having conference (150)
• YSS reach out to lapsed members--remind of benefits, need to stay connected
• Sue will create a Google Doc to help YSS Board divvy up lapsed members and each of us will contact some personally 

WLA Board Report Liaison - Sue

Adjourn

Respectfully, submitted,

Susie Menk, Secretary     October 14, 2020