Annual Conference: New Officers and Wonderful Presenters

New YART Officers Named:

The YART business meeting was held on Thursday, October 14th at 1:30 p.m. during the annual NLA/NEMA Conference. Nominations were taken and elections held for Chair, Chair Elect, and Secretary/Treasurer. We would like to extend a warm welcome to our incoming officers:

Chair - Gordon Wyant, Bellevue Public Library
Chair Elect - Jake Rundle, Hastings Public Library
Secretary/Treasurer - Cathy McMahon, Keene Memorial Library

We look forward to their leadership and vision for YART during the next year.

Presentations Were A Success:

We want to extend a big thank you to the following individuals for presenting at this year's NLA/NEMA Conference. Their sessions were outstanding - and standing room only!

With Popcorn or M&M's? The Public Library's Mission to Entertain:
Jake Rundle, Keene Memorial Library
Micki Dietrich, Omaha Public Libraries

Hey Kids! Look What We've Got: Effective Marketing to Tweens and Teens:
Jake Rundle, Keene Memorial Library
Cathy McMahon, Keene Memorial Library
Gordon Wyant, Bellevue Public Library

Zombies, Cubeee and Gocks - Oh My! Teen Crafts, Back From the Dead and Hungry for Brains!:
Gordon Wyant, Bellevue Public Library
Lindsey Tomsu, LaVista Public Library
Jake Rundle, Keene Memorial Library

Novel Movie Trailers:
Laurie Konrad, Omaha Public Schools
Jan Campion, Omaha Public Schools

Upcoming Spring Event:

Stay tuned for more information on a planned upcoming Spring Event! In April (Date TBA), we will be meeting at Sump Memorial Library in Papillion to spend the morning with featured guest speaker Michael Sullivan, author of Connecting Boys with Books and Connecting Boys with Books 2: Closing the Reading Gap. He will share practical, proven, and sometimes off-beat suggestions on how to turn boys into life-long readers. The afternoon will be spent at LaVista Public Library where we will unveil our new Program-In-A-Box - a must have for all youth services, teen, and secondary librarians!

NLA/NEMA Conference

We hope to see all of you in Grand Island, October 13th-15th for NLA/NEMA. While at the conference, be sure and check out the sessions that we are sponsoring:

THURSDAY:
9:10 a.m.—10:00 a.m. SECOND THURSDAY SESSION

With Popcorn or M&M’s? The Public Library’s Mission to Entertain
-Jake Rundle , Keene Memorial Library and Micki Dietrich, Omaha Public Libraries
A discussion about the library’s new mission to be a source for entertainment (DVDs, Wii games, and other expensive media) as part of its public services in the wake of lost jobs, lower incomes, and a drooping economy. We’ll discuss the impact this has on the collection, and look at libraries nationwide and here in Nebraska that do a good job at providing these new services to patrons. Sponsored by YART. Audience: Public. Holiday Inn – Executive’s

2:00 p.m.—2:50 p.m. THIRD THURSDAY SESSION

Hey Kids! Look What We’ve Got!: Effective Marketing to Tweens and Teens
- Jake Rundle, Keene Memorial Library
With the library taking a much deeper look at marketing itself in order to bring in patrons, this program will look specifically at the Teens and Tweens of the community and present effective means of marketing to them. Since this is a traditionally under served population in the library, we will be looking at what the research has to say for marketing to this group, as well as our own experiences with marketing to Teens and Tweens. Sponsored by YART. Audience: Public, Secondary. Holiday Inn – Islander II

3:45 p.m.—4:35 p.m. FOURTH THURSDAY SESSION

Zombies, Cubees and Gocks. Oh My! Teen Crafts, Back from the Dead and Hungry for Brains!
- Gordon Wyant, Bellevue Public Library; Lyndsen Tomsu, LaVista Public Library and Jake Rundle, Keene Memorial Library
One of the most rewarding and effective types of program for teens is also one of the least implemented. Whether a result of a lack of ideas, lack of budget, fear of poor teen response, or a combination of factors teen crafts are often seen as not worth the effort. This session aims to change those misconceptions and bring the popular and social activity of teen crafts back from the heap of long dead programs. It is time to graduate from the paper plate masks! Rise against the decline of craft events and give those idle teen hands something to do! Come, comrades: JOIN THE DIY REVOLUTION! Sponsored by YART. Audience: General, Public, Secondary. Holiday Inn – Ambassador’s

FRIDAY:
10:45 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. THIRD FRIDAY SESSION

Novel Movie Trailers
-Laurie Konrad and Jan Campion, Omaha Public Schools
Bring novels to life for your students. Learn how to make movie trailers using powerpoint or moviemaker so that students learn plot, characters, setting, mood and theme. Use animations, transitions, free music and the art of finding good actresses and actors to play the characters in the book. Many student work samples are available to view along with a step-by-step instruction and handouts. It is a video booktalk with pizazz! Sponsored by YART. Audience: Public, Elementary. Riverside – Locust


We hope that you can also come to our YART Business Meeting, scheduled from 1:30-2:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 14th at the Riverside. We will be holding elections for Chair Elect and for Secretary/Treasurer. In addition, we will be discussing future plans for YART!

YART Spring Meeting Summary

Thanks to everyone who attended our first annual Spring Meeting.

We had a great turn out and many new ideas were shared. Sally Snyder presented a list of books for the summer reading theme of Make Waves @ your library. The handout for her presentation can be found at: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/handouts/handouts.asp

NLA president, Scott Childers, spoke to the group in regards to NLA's new strategic plan. He urged everyone to contact him with ideas of how NLA could meet the needs of its members. Scott's contact information can be found on the NLA site.

At this time we are requesting anyone with presentation ideas for the NLA Conference to please contact any of the YART officers. All presentation ideas have to be submitted to the NLA Conference Committee by April 15th.

The last portion of the meeting was devoted to speed programming. Below are some of the ideas generated by the different groups:

Literacy

Making a video connection between the book they read (iMovie) make a video to post so they could share at school.

Outreach

Find places in town that have teen programs (alternative schools, teen crisis programs) and see what library services you can offer.

Promotion

Put signs in places where young adults hang out. Signs like " Sick of Sparkly Vampires" with a list of books that aren't about vampires. Make the signs interesting to the young adults.

Craft

Dorodango Balls

Technology

Start a Ning, the Omaha Public Library started one for teens. You can put videos, links, etc...

It updates to Twitter and Facebook.

Oteens.ming.com

Come this Saturday!

It’s been a little while since our last post here, but that’s because we have all been so busy planning for our YART Spring Meeting THIS Saturday! Hopefully you are all planning on attending (hint hint) and participating in our interactive meeting focusing on this summer’s reading program!

And just to whet your appetite, how about a little teaser agenda for what you can expect come March 13th!

Interaction with librarians from different venues of school and public youth services

Book talks by Sally Snyder of the best teen books relating to Water!

Drawings and prizes! Including ALA’s “Cool Teen Programs for Under $100”

Programming collaboration and ideas sharing

Refreshments and networking time!

And more!

March 13th, 9-11 am
Blair Public Library (210 S. 17th St)
Cost: Only $5 per person
Don’t forget to RSVP to srvanraden@gmail.com and come join us!

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