YART Fall 2012 Business Meeting Minutes

Young Adult Round Table Business Meeting

NLA Conference - October 18, 2012 3 p.m.

La Vista Conference Center - La Vista, NE 

Old business
I. Program in a Box - Jake Rundle reminded attendees that this is a resource that YART can offer. Circulation is few and far between so this is an opportunity for new YART leadership to consider revamping the programs or building more publicity for them. Jake explained that these boxes currently live at three different libraries which are the boxes' home locations. These locations are responsible for refilling the boxes (if needed). Libraries that borrow the boxes are responsible for the shipping costs.
Anyone that wants to create a new program in a box is encouraged to submit ideas to the YART officers. YART will reimburse costs for approved ideas.

II. YART Blog at blogger - Coming with a new NLA website, this YART blog will need to be moved into a Wordpress site to follow the same style standards as the overall NLA site. This may not occur until Spring 2013, but YART members will be notified via NLA representatives.
 
III. Twitter, Facebook, other social media - Jake reminded attendees that YART is on Facebook and Twitter and stores Delicious bookmarks of useful resources. 
 
IV. November meeting with RVLS/MLS
Jake discussed that YART typically meets twice a year - once in the Spring with an emphasis on public librarians, and once in the Fall with an emphasis on school librarians. This fall, Jake is working on collaborating with the RVLS meeting in Lexington which will focus on technology and book trailers. 

New Business :
I. New officer installation - Jake Rundle, outgoing president announced the new board - Lindsey Tomsu/chair, Rachelle McPhillips /vice chair, and Krystin Mavity/secretary.

II. What are you looking for out of YART - Bridget Kratt talked about having YART representation at a monthly MAS meeting to talk about how YART can benefit students and why NSLA members should consider joining YART. 

Gordon asked about finances and Jake was going to look into specifics. Gordon also noted that because YART didn't have 2 people race in each election this year, YART does not receive allocations from NLA so YART must push the elections the next year. 

Bridget asked what the membership for YART was and Jake said it was at 53. 

YART annual business meeting 2012

Opening : Jake Rundle

Old business :

I. program in a box
II. YART Blog at blogger
III. twitter, Facebook, other social media
IV. November meeting with RVLS/MLS

New Business :

I. New officer installatio
II. What are you looking for out of YART.

YART Spring Meeting Review

Patty Birch of North Platte High School gave a great presentation on collection development. Saying that teens are like jellyfish, Patty told us young adults may act like they don’t know what’s going on but they are always learning and listening and our role as librarians is to help guide them in what they read.

Patty talked about making sure your selection criteria is in place as well as keeping up with series. She also talked about making sure you have a policy for donations/gifts to your library - making it clear that you welcome donations but will only use what you can. Patty also talked about collaborating with teachers about topics or reading requirements they will assign to their students throughout the year.

She then gave us a list of Top 10 blogs she follows for book reviews and collection development ideas. These and other resources can be found at delicious.com/nlayart. Patty's presentation led the way for some excellent discussion among those in attendance.

Then, Melanie Feyerherm Schultz, YART secretary, discussed the BWI/YALSA Collection Development Grant she received for Baright Public Library (Ralston, NE) in 2011. She talked about how she wrote the grant, detailing what she said she would do with the resources, how she involved the middle and high school book clubs in the selection of books and how successful it was to expand the library's YA collection.
 
Other grants and funding opportunities were discussed which can also be found on YART's Delicious page through the "collection development grant" tag.  A suggestion was to note on a calendar all the different deadlines for grants that pertain to your school or public library to make sure you're aware of when you should be working on them.

Scholastic book fairs at the middle and high school levels were another possibility for funding.
Jake Rundle, YART chair, also discussed Junior Library Guild books that you can subscribe to. This resource will send you a book each month for each reading level you subscribe to.

Then Sally Snyder, of the Nebraska Library Commission presented book talks of “Best Genre Books to Build Your Collection.” The handout of books she discussed is available by clicking here. and the audio of the presentation is now available here. There are some fantastic suggestions in there so be sure to take a look and listen. 

Thanks again to all of our presenters and our attendees. We hope you enjoyed the Spring Meeting!

April 14 Spring Meeting Registration Now Open

Saturday, April 14th

Gothenburg Public Library

1104 Lake Avenue Gothenburg, NE 69138

1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

YART’s Spring Meeting will focus on collection development!

Agenda

1. Collection Development Workshop: What makes a collection good, how can school and
public librarians work together, weeding—it’s all here! Guest Presenter: Patty Birch, North
Platte High School.
2. Funding Your Collection: Learn about grants, how to stretch your budget, book fairs, and
more. Presented by YART members.
3. Best Genre Books to Build Your Collection: Sally Snyder of the Nebraska Library
Commission will be doing a booktalk via Skype.

Optional lunch from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. with YART board. Tell us what you want out of YART.

Door prizes courtesy of Republican Valley Library System and Meridian Library System. Meeting co-sponsored by SCYP.

Cost: $10 ($5 if you bring an example of an Awful Library Book that needs to be weeded!)

Please download the registration form below and return by April 9th.

YART Spring Meeting Registration Form

YART - Now on Facebook and Twitter

Calling all social media savvy YARTers!

You can now find YART on Facebook (facebook.com/nlayart) and Twitter (twitter.com/nlayart).

Please follow us and share you thoughts and ideas so that we can all grow together as librarians serving young adults!