Minutes: May 11, 2012

There is a call for new Chairs for the ECYA roundtable.

September 14th may be the next meeting, should the date and time stay the same.

We would like to have topics for the next year set as well since it worked so well this year.

Possible Topics:
Hot Fiction
Non Fiction
Mystery
Publicity
Advocacy & Statistics (great statistical resources available through webjunction)
School/Public Librarian cooperation
Teen safety and required mandating
YA Spaces and Planning

Could Pinterest replace booklists? An idea from CLA. Change link on book covers to your own library catalog. Time consuming, but libraries currently using it do not yet have data on success.

Fall Statewide YA meeting will probably be on November 15th in Wallingford.

We should update the booklists as they were created about three years ago.

Today’s Topic: Hot New Fiction

Some of our non-traditional selection resources:
Teens Read
Barnes and Noble
Goodreads
BWI Title Tales has a monthly feature
KDL Whats Next to keep track of series
Juvenile Sequels and Series also tracks series
iconn.org has a new website for readers advisory

Meeting this Friday

Don’t forget, we’re chatting about Hot Fiction on Friday. Meet us at the Willimantic Service Center at 10!
See you there,
Jennifer

Minutes – April 13, 2012

Here are some of our Summer Program Ideas:

Glow in the Dark–paint to make jars, Glow paint to make stenciled t-shirts, glow-in-the-dark eye balls, bowling (glow sticks in water bottles–glow necklaces so you don’t bump into each other), jello made with tonic water will react to black light

Edible Arrangements–cookie cutters to cut fruit into shapes

Green Magician

Themed weeks: ghost, vampire, glow in the dark, etc

Tombstone rubbing, epitaph display, fingerprinting

Movies, Star Wars (pool noodle light sabers)

Dub Step contest, coffee house, scary story telling/contest

Planetarium visits and astronomy events

Long exposure painting with light–contest? Or flamerpaint(?)

Night vision glasses demonstration, murder mystery

Zombies and Zombification

Survivalist

Idea Wiki: Www.cla-net.org (summer reading; program ideas)

Frankentoys

Scary card stamping, jewelry, jewelry with hardware) duct tape

Author Visits: Kim Harrington at Otis, Eric Berlin does many events in CT,

Prize Ideas: Tarot reading gift card, dream catchers, glow in the dark from oriental trading, backpacks, scratch tickets for prizes (to determine who wins ie: raffle), silent auction raffle awarding of prizes, Woodstock Fair tickets (it never hurts to ask for prize donations)

Displays: epitaphs, match the monster, fairy tales, how to avoid vampires, famous tombs, LED bulletin board pins

Book Discussions: The Fault in our Stars

Please contribute to online summer reading booklists already in blog.

Our Next Meeting is May 11, 2011 at WLSC. The topic will be Hot Fiction.

Minutes, March 9, 2012

Today’s Topic is Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction as a way to interest teens in different historical periods. A book list will be forthcoming–ECYA members can add to this booklist.

We also talked about different genres of historical fiction such as Historical Fantasy and Alternate History (example: Leviathan).

Another topic was the pretty dress phenomenon, with many historical fiction covers featuring ladies in dresses.

The survey we discussed at our last meeting received many response regarding the location of tween reads in either the YA or Juvenile section. An analysis will be posted thanks to Jennifer.

Our next meeting will be on April 13th. The topic will Summer Reading. ECYA members, please feel free to add summer booklists to the blog.

Meeting This Friday

Will be held at the Willimantic Service Center starting at 10 AM. We’ll be chatting about historical fiction titles so bring along your favorites / most circulated titles to share.

Middle Grade (Tween Reads)

The book list we compiled at our last meeting is now available

~ Jennifer

February Meeting Minutes

The February topic was Tween Reads:

The list of tween books discussed will be posted soon to the book lists page.

We discussed how to insure complete series are ordered–Ingram standing order series plans will send you books in the series and FictFact(?), an online service, will email when a new book in a series you select is announced.

Do tween books belong in a teen or juvenile collection? We discussed how that decision was that handled in each library and what sort of cooperation between children and teen departments exist and are needed. A proposal of a survey on this topic was mentioned. Watch out for this survey on various listservs.

We talked about books that are stolen and if it is really worthwhile to replace them if they are going to immediately be stolen again.

Jennifer has begun creating a list of books that fit the summer theme. Because we all know and choose different books, please feel free to update this list.

Our next meeting will be March 9th at WLSC. The topic will be historical fiction.

Friday’s Meeting

Will be held at the Otis Library. Check out where to park from this map

The meeting will be upstairs in the Community Room and will start at 10. Please note that the library doesn’t open until 10.

Bring tween books that fly off your shelves to share!

See you there,

~ Jennifer

ECYA Meeting on Friday February 10th

I just wanted everyone to know that the next meeting will be held on February 10th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Otis Library in Norwich, Ct. Hope to see you there! We will be discussing Tween Reads.

Meeting on Friday: Technology Programs

Please bring your technology program ideas to our meeting this Friday at WLSC at 10 AM.

I look forward to hearing all your great ideas!
~ Jennifer