Youth Services Section Board Meeting
May 17, 2022
1:30pm-3:00pm
Present: Claire Parrish, Ashley Borman, Caitlin Schaffer, Alison
Loewen, Linda Jerome, Melissa Carollo, Marge Loch-Wouters, Murray Johnson
Approve May Agenda: Caitlin S. motions, Alison L. seconded
Approve April Minutes: Ashley B. motions, Murray J. seconded
Welcome
Getting ready for summer!
Old Business:
- DPI
Updates -Monica
- Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone - Post about Beanstack, will be sharing on
the blog.
- Reach out to Ben Miller (benjamin.miller@dpi.wi.gov)
if you still need the Collaborative Summer Library Program manual.
- Blog
Check-in - Marge
- Cleared up problems with Follow It
- Katherine Schoofs doing once a month posting, looking at
Thursday rotation
- Recruiting for Tuesday blogger
- Graphic for YSS board minute posts?
- Melissa recommends YSS logo, which Alison will share with Marge
- Question from Claire - Do we ever share Youth Services job
postings?
- Answer - We used to, and may do so again now that more jobs are
being posted on Wispublib
- Frequency of posting? Once a week, aggregate, individual
posting? Bi-weekly?
- Marge would likely would post on weekends versus on premier
days
- Melissa - Kristine Millard, Practicum student from UW Madison
who works at Waisman Center might be in touch with Marge to send along
more content.
- Regional
Meet-Ups - Murray
- Planning to contact L.E. Phillips library to check in about
hosting in August
- Still deciding if it will be an actual meetup or
virtual
- Webinar
Check In - Claire
- Not much to report - Still hoping to do social/emotional, trauma
support webinar. Talking to Waukesha PL to see what they are doing and if
they would be interested in sharing what they’ve been doing in the
community.
- Will coordinate with Regional Meet-Up so webinar happens either
a couple weeks before or after
- WLA
Update - Linda
- WLA Annual
- Program proposals closed - a little over 100 submissions
- Site visit May 31st to plan out the space before narrowing down
the list of presenters.
- Keynotes - No contracts finalized for final keynote or YSS
luncheon.
- WAAL conference was low attendance
- WAPL - Went well and had good attendance
- SSCS coming up soon, registration going well so far
- Board met with Steve Conway, WLA lobbyist, to discuss challenges
with the uptick of intellectual freedom issues
- Work has begun on structuring and updating value statement
- Children’s
Book Award - Murray/Ashley
- Winner and honorees have been determined and will be announced
in June.
- Three people are leaving the committee this year, so recruit for
next year.
- Needing four new committee members.
- Marketing
Committee - No updates
- Claire recommends a social media post for WLA to share to remind
libraries about how hard YS librarians are working over the summer.
New Business:
- WAPL
Recap - Taylor/Ashley/Claire
- Social went well, had around 18 attendees
- Attendees especially enjoyed the games
- Suggestions
- Look into adding at least a few tables to break out sessions
- Longer HDMI cables so laptops/devices can be used at podiums
- Microphones will soon be required in order to present at WLA
conferences
- YSS
Elections - Jenny W.
- Start thinking about recruitment now, because waiting until
August will be coming up on/past the deadline.
- Open positions - Chair elect, two directors at large
- Marketing options - Blog post, email blast, WLA quarterly
newsletter
- Next
meeting: August 16, September 20, October 18
- November meeting - WLA Annual conference
Motion to adjourn: Ashley B., Murray J. seconded
Meeting notes recorded by Caitlin Schaffer, secretary.
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