Friday, January 20, 2023

YSS December 2022 Board Meeting Notes

Youth Services Section Board Meeting

December 13, 2022

1:30-3:00pm


Present: Claire Parrish, Taylor Wilcox, Caitlin Schaffer, Marge Loch-Wouters, Alison Loewen, Jeni Schomber, Murray Johnson, Linda Jerome 

Approve December Agenda: Motioned by Taylor W., seconded by Caitlin S. 

Approve November Minutes: Motioned by Alison L., seconded by Taylor W. 


Welcome 


Old Business:

  • DPI Updates -Jeni  

    • Sent out a survey for Beanstack to the youth services consultants. Beanstack is funded through the end of 2023. Survey is to get a feel about how much it is being used throughout the state. December 23 is the final day to fill it out. 

      • There is a specific survey for public libraries and another one for school libraries. 

    • Jeni is meeting with all youth services consultants and liaisons throughout the state so she can meet everyone and see what they are doing in their system, what they’re excited about, and to learn more about what she and DPI can do to support. 

  • Blog - Marge 

    • Just under 71,000 hits for the year! 

    • Encourages the Board to think about posts on things we’re working on, the background information about what we’re doing, etc. because it can be a great recruiting tool. 

    • Reminder to the secretary to send Marge the minutes directly after their approval, especially if she doesn’t make it to the meeting at which they were approved. 

  • Webinar Check In - Claire/Alison

    • Thursday, December 15 @ 2pm

    • Social Emotional Learning Kits 

      • Milton Public Library’s Healing Library Kits

      • Chippewa Falls - Put together kits with grant funds 

    • Will be recorded! 

    • Got some great feedback from WLA on topics both of interest in learning about and presenting on for both webinars and blog posts. 

  • WLA Update - Linda 

    • Last Board meeting coming up on Friday

      • Board has voted to create an Intellectual Freedom Task Force 

      • Supporting members that are facing challenges, and working to get ahead of challenges; proactive vs. reactive 

    • Conference meeting feedback discussion

      • Still waiting for final financial reports, but all seems well!

      • Conference survey feedback was very positive 

  • Children’s Book Award - Claire

    • New members announcement 

      • 7-8 submitted applications to join. Claire looked at if they had been involved before, prior involvement in WLA and YSS, what they are doing at their libraries, etc. 

      • Recommended four candidates to Briony Zlomke, the committee chair, who will be emailing all of them to officially invite them to join the committee. 

      • Once those four have accepted, Claire will email the others to thank them and encourage them to be blog contributors. 

New Business:

  • January 2023 Board Retreat and Meet-up

    • Date and Location

      • Looking into January 19 or 26 at Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library 

        • Tentatively starting with breakfast at 9, meeting at 9:30, lunch together, and regional meetup in the afternoon 

      • Claire and Alison will work to get a poll sent out, including the option of attending virtually to see who all would be interested. 

  • Connecting WI Libraries - Marge 

    • Created in 2018 to bring WLA and WEMTA members together and to foster and support collaborations between school and public libraries. More information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yeaNGPdnHSKQmgYlFbyeu39xakqrO48ZM2ooox_tCSI/edit#heading=h.ksxr1ggfh416

    • Wanting to share more stories and links about successful programs and partnerships. 

    • Marge will be stepping off of committee after serving for four years. YSS chair, YSS Board liaison and chair-elect are usually present so the Board has some responsibility for the group and are active in it. She encourages us to reach out to people within our system to share their stories and be more involved in the group. 


Motion to Adjourn: Linda J., seconded by Caitlin S.  


Minutes recorded by Caitlin Schaffer, secretary.


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