Wisconsin Library Association
Youth Services Section Board Meeting
September 20, 2022 1:30pm-3:00pm
Present: Claire Parrish, Caitlin Schaffer, Melissa Carollo, Marge Loch-Wouters, Alison Loewen, Linda Jerome, Taylor Wilcox
Absent: Murray Johnson, Ashley Borman
Approve September Agenda: Motioned by Melissa C., seconded by Alison L.
Approve August Minutes: Motioned by Caitlin S., seconded by Melissa C.
Welcome
Old Business:
DPI Updates -Monica
Jeni Schomber and Chris Baker have joined the Library Services Team as consultants. Look for their attendance at these meetings in the future!
Alex Delvoye took another position with UW and is no longer at DPI. Team director Ben Miller is serving as LSTA coordinator while a replacement is recruited. Send any LSTA questions to the LSTA inbox: lstagrants@dpi.wi.gov
Blog Check-in - Marge
Has blog posts with pictures and biographies for all candidates in the upcoming election. Hoping to post the third and fourth week of September.
On average, blog posts get about 10-25 hits in the first couple of days. People are definitely interested in the Board work and Claire’s Corner. Minutes get over 100-150 hits.
Ongoing Issues with email client worked out by Marge via a conversation with the client. No more ads!
Saturday blog posts - Are they being seen? Post the job postings on Saturdays because they are time sensitive. Gives time for contributor posts to be up for a full 24 hours.
Regional Meet-Ups - Claire
Eau Claire - Fun (but small) meetup on Thursday, September 15. 5-6 attendees.
Remodel is very nice! Second day open to the public.
Ton of meeting rooms, gallery space, outdoor patio, geothermal heating and cooling system, giant magnet wall, non-slip storytime mats to use on concrete floor for storytime and events
Future thoughts - Double check with WLA calendar to make sure we aren’t booking back-to-back. IFLS meeting on the Tuesday prior that covered a lot of the same content and possibly received priority attendance.
Webinar Check In - Claire
Healing Library/Trauma Informed kits - October
Alison and Claire - In contact with the Milton Public Library (already own and circulate kits) and the Waukesha Public Library (did work with the community after the parade tragedy).
Other libraries to consider: Chippewa Falls has some kits, or social worker at Eau Claire
Land Acknowledgements - late November/early December
Hedberg Public Library (Janesville) - Working on pulling together land acknowledgement workshop
Could presenters/attendee write up a few paragraphs for the blog? Claire will look into as far as contract discrepancies, see what has been archived and shared.
WLA Update - Linda
Board meeting last Friday, Sep. 16
Talked mostly about the conference, intellectual freedom issues, and updating the organizational manual.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bradley - Hired to fill Hannah Bunting’s position: bradley@wisconsinlibraries.org, working part time, 9-1, Monday - Friday
WLA Fall Conference Planning
Social - Melissa & Murray: Minute to Win It challenges (fits with conference theme)
Social and business meeting are not on the agenda, so Claire will work on getting that fixed.
Business meeting currently scheduled to be held at the same time as breakout sessions, so Claire is looking into changing that time.
Luncheon - Jenny: Details still in the works (tech needs, etc.), but Kevin Henkes is coming.
Meals are now included in the conference cost. It is more cost effective, and the Grand Geneva is far removed from the downtown and other eating options.
D&D Social - Caitlin: Not a YSS-sponsored event, but might be of interest to youth services librarians. Caitlin will work on blog post to let librarians know about Dungeons & Dragons options at WLA once more details are worked out.
Combine YSS social with D&D social?
Children’s Book Award - Committee Members
Recruitment - Two applications submitted, another sent via Google Doc and Claire can’t access it.
Need to fill four spots, so might try another marketing push on the blog and via Memberclicks (Alison)
Marketing Committee - Alison
Nothing new right now
New Business:
Updating YSS Policies - Claire/Linda
Working to standardize and provide continuity to some of the shared operations between sections.
Updating the procedural parts of the YSS manual versus the policies
Discovered that not everyone had access to the correct Google Drive folder
Future project - Move everything to Dropbox?
Next Meeting: October 18
Motion to Adjourn: Taylor W., seconded by Alison L.
Minutes recorded by Caitlin Schaffer, secretary.
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