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:
YSS Board Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/14nlYDP3zTzbwrIG8HVz4eVC-El19KxIJ
Feel free to look at information, please don’t change anything
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?
Link to new list of lapsed members: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ulZpdFHktHmcxB3UZ-OPLZUk-a6PHif7/edit#gid=55085113
Less lapsed members, helps when we reach out personally
Feel free to utilize Sue’s sample email when reaching out to folk
Continue working on this? -- any way to know if our efforts were successful?
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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