Youth Services Section Board Meeting
March 15, 2022
1:30pm-3:00pm
Present: Ashley Borman, Claire Parrish, Murray Johnson, Linda Jerome, Alison Loewen
Approve March Agenda: Ashley B., Murray J. seconded
Approve February Minutes: Linda J., Alison L. seconded
Welcome
Skipped for today since Laura Sauser couldn’t make it in person.
Old Business:
DPI Updates -Monica
On March 1, 2022, the DPI sent a letter to all district administrators stressing the importance of school library policies and procedures, emphasizing the importance of these documents in the event of a book challenge. The letter also provided resources for support. A copy of the letter is now located on the DPI website.
WEMTA announced their Statement in Support of School Libraries and Librarians at their conference on March 8, 2022. It is posted on their website, and they will be sharing it with other organizations to gather support and solidarity soon.
Beanstack is planning a tandems webinar for school and public librarians at the end of March! Will share more soon!
Advice from Monica: Bring up Beanstack with your school contacts, but don’t push it this year. See what kind of response you get, but be mindful.
Blog Check-in - Marge
The blog continues to gain readers. Over the past 4 months, our initial daily readers count has steadily been increasing. Along with the excellent interesting content provided by all the writers, I credit the boost we get from the blog being mentioned regularly in the biweekly WLA Bulletin. That exposure means that people are reminded frequently of the ever-changing content and resources that the blog provides.
We appreciate the board members who have contributed and continue to provide content for the blog. The new "Claire's Corner" along with the YSS board minutes consistently get high readership rates. Readers are vitally interested in the work of the board!
Also please continue to promote the blog to colleagues and peers that you work with and within your systems.. And don't hesitate to send on links, resources or your own posts so we can publish them on the YSS blog!
Regional Meet-Ups - Murray
March 17 Virtual Meet-Up: Waupaca and Manitowoc
First half with Taylor Wilcox in Waupaca - touring teen area
Second half with Julia Lee in Manitowoc - touring maker space
Next Meet-Up: Wait until after summer (mid-late August and October)
Stay virtual or do hybrid? Gives an option for online audience who can’t attend in person.
YSS/WLA/Intellectual Freedom SIG Webinar Update - Claire
Tuesday, April 5, 2-3 pm - Registration required, $25 fee for non-WLA members
YSS marketing committee working on graphic for advertisement
Megan from CCBC, Melissa from Mead Public Library, Kristina Gómez representing Intellectual Freedom SIG
Talk of making this an ongoing series with various examples of the challenges libraries face
Other potential webinars: How to write a land acknowledgement, trauma-informed librarians (paid speaker)
Claire is proposing that YSS would take responsibility for planning and coordinating four webinars a year as our contribution. That way we’re still putting out content important to our membership, but also supportive to WLA as they try to build revenue and membership.
Discussion about balance between providing content that requires a paywall for nonmembers and options that are free for everyone, and how much storage is available for these videos and how long members vs. nonmembers have access to view content. Claire will discuss with WLA representatives. Alison L. recommends checking out CLEL for an example of how they archive and save webinars.
Moving forward, how are we coordinating the process for this if we’re doing it quarterly. Chair is the lead, but will tag team it with interested board members (Ex. Claire and Caitlin would work on the land acknowledgement webinar since it was Caitlin’s suggestion). Marketing committee would be involved as well.
WAPL Committee - Taylor and Ashley
Room near the bar for board games and chatting. Currently set for a 6 pm spot, trying for a 7:30 time instead on Thursday.
YSS funds for snacks - Not sure if funds were requested from WLA. Claire will talk to Jennie about past options for snacks and social and how they were paid for.
Could be a part of the hospitality package with the venue?
Chocolates and candy instead of heavier snacks
WLA Update - Linda
Meeting - Discussion of changes to membership categories, specifically lifetime, vendor and trustees/friends. Nothing else impactful to report
Conference - Jason Reynolds is opening the keynote on Wednesday morning! Make sure to use wording from WLA’s official announcement if announcing that information publicly.
Session proposals are open - Put in a proposal so we have a strong YSS selection!
Tentative agreement for second keynote speaker with an intellectual freedom focus, more of a call to action.
Friday keynote - Looking for someone more fun than serious
YSS Luncheon speaker - Still in finalization
Working on Thursday luncheon speaker
Children’s Book Award
Murray J. and Ashley B. - First book review meeting on Thursday, March 17. Will be meeting until a top ten is announced at the end of May. Julia Lee is the chair.
Murray reminding Julia to put in a program proposal for the winner to have a session at WLA.
Marketing Committee
Alison L. - Sending everything from Katherine Schoofs to Claire or upload to the shared Google Drive
create marketing folder that can be accessed and passed along
Call for a more simple, impactful name for the webinars for the purpose of branding and creating a logo.
Only in charge of marketing YSS-sponsored or co-sponsored webinars
Goal to create hard deadlines for marketing materials so nothing is missed
Reminder from Claire - Consider attending Power Up conference. Always a lot of useful information…and good snacks. :) Happening again in 2024.
Consider having a YSS pre-conference on opposite years of Power Up
New Business:
WLA Conference Program Collaboration - Alison
How do we connect people for program proposals? What does it mean to be sponsored by YSS?
Response from Linda - No formal way, but recommends putting out feelers among your own circles. Conference committee will also connect people if they submit similar proposals.
Create a YSS Google form to share out - want to present, but don’t want to go solo? Publish by March 28
WAPL program submittal form has “YSS Sponsored” option – follow up with chair to get removed next year
Motion to adjourn: Linda, seconded by Ashley
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