Date: April 16, 2015

Location: Tewksbury Public Library

Attendees:

• Erin Daly (Chair, Chicopee), Noelle Boc (Past Chair, Tewksbury), Jessica Lamarre (Co-chair, Duxbury), Dena Moscheck (Secretary, Plymouth), Fran Dannault (Bacon Free Library, Natick), Kathy Moran-Wallace (Nevins Library, Methuen), Meg Malone (Randolph, via Google Hangouts), Larissa Farrell (Plymouth, via Google Hangouts)

Conference - Everything is happening in Ballroom D

• Awesome Award

• Jen from Lexington’s social story for kids with autism about how to use the library

• made by teen advisory board for younger kids

• Erin is making an AWESOME sash again

• MLA is putting slides into the powerpoint at the gala - we are towards the end

• Erin will talk about Jen (bio) and the project in general (10 min. presentation)

• Annual Meeting/Annual Report

• Money came from Hands-on tech programs and lunchbags - we have broken even on the lunchbags and need to sell more. $10 each, they’re great!

• Chair makes a motion to hold the election - she will ask for a block vote

• Make announcement to visit the Instagram booth - #masslib15 #mlayss

• Program Shepherds

• Jess - 9:00

• Noelle - 10:30

• Meg Malone - 1:15

• Shelley Quezada - 2:45

• Jess Bacon - 4:00

• Raffle Basket

• Lunchbag, Candy, iTunes gift card?

• Jess will look for a basket - bring whatever you want to put in the basket to Annual Meeting and we’ll construct it during the break

• Getting to know MLA Breakfasts

• happening Monday & Tuesday

• Monday is happening during Annual Meeting - Monday

• someone to promote YSS who doesn’t need to be in the meeting (can come after organizational business)

• Erin for Monday, Kathy from Nevins for Tuesday

• What to say: youth librarians meet all over the state to support and extend YS throughout the state, plan conference and other events, next year we’re having a retreat, partnering with NELA, lunchbags for sale, etc.

• Anything else?

Organization Business

• We need to schedule a June meeting to change leadership. Best to do it early so we don’t get swept up in summer reading.

• 11-1, May 28 in Plymouth (pending meeting room availability)

• Next year: Nominating Committee is separate from YSS Board

• Noelle will be on the nominating commitee, as a past-past-chair (member-at-large) - will recruit help

• Call for nominations will begin at Annual Meeting (per bylaws)

• Nominating committee in place by September

• Update re: candidates at January YSS eboard meeting - announce via email by March (60 days prior)

• Self-nomination by petition by March 1

Hands-on Tech (Palmer)

• What worked, what didn’t? How were these programs overall?

• People seemed to like and enjoy them

• Info is up on the wiki

• Erin brought up discussion on how to make code less scary in the future

• Participation in Hour of Code?

NERTCL Report - Noelle

• October conference in Manchester, NH

• Looking at focusing on readers advisory program next Spring

• will take place next March at Worcester State

• try to make sure it’s on a different weekend in March than our retreat

Presenters at future meetings - what do we want to learn about/teach to others?

Duxbury’s 3D Printer (Ultimaker - Kevin Osborn will talk about it at conference) & Peep Diorama contest