BAYA Meeting Minutes March 22, 2011 Milpitas Public Library Next ...

BAYA Meeting Minutes
March 22, 2011
Milpitas Public Library
Next Meeting:
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Location: Oakland Main Library
125 14th Street.
Oakland, CA 94612
Topic: Challenges to YA Materials, presentation by Amy Sonnie (librarian and
author of a banned YA book) and Beth Wrenn-Estes (librarian and lecturer
at San Jose State University)
Website: http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/
Members/ friends present:
1. Amanda Jacobs Foust – Marin County Free Library
2. Amy Pelman – Burlingame Public Library
3. Beth Wrenn-Estes – San Jose State University Instructor
4. Brandi Bette Smead, BAYA Secretary – Benicia Public Library
5. Chris Selig, BAYA Vice President – San Leandro Library
6. Dana Aleshire – Contra Costa County Library (Lafayette)
7. Daniel G. Gaghan – Stanford University Library
8. Dolly Goyal – Santa Clara County Library (Belmont)
9. Don Phillips – Santa Clara County Library (Milpitas)
10. Gary Morrison – Fremont Main Library (Alameda County Library)
11. Jack Baur, BAYA President – Berkeley Public Library
12. JoAnn Rees – Sunnyvale Public Library
13. Karin Lundstrom – Alameda Free Library
14. Kelly Brennan Young – Santa Clara County Library (Gilroy)
15. Lisa Dearborn - Santa Clara County Library (Saratoga)
16. Marla Bergman – San Francisco Public Library
17. Marlene Iwamoto – Santa Clara County Library (Campbell)
18. Nichole King – Santa Clara County Library (Morgan Hill)
19. Sandi Imperio – Santa Cruz Public Libraries
20. Sarah La Torra, BAYA Treasurer – Redwood City Library
21. Sarah Neeri – Santa Clara County Library (Los Altos)
22. Tracy Snow – Santa Clara County Library (Cupertino)
Book Sharing:
Nichole King: Across the Universe by Beth Revis (sci-fi/ space travel/ attempted murder)
Sarah La Torra: Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card (sci-fi/ fantasy/ time travel)
Chris Selig: The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang (great for Middle
Schoolers/ growing up Chinese in the US)
Brandi Bette Smead: Silksinger by Laini Taylor (fairies/ djinns/ other-wordly)
Kelly Brennan Young: You by Charles Benoit

Sarah Neeri: Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell (teenaged half superhero/
half-super villain)
Dana Aleshire: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (True story about one of the
lost boys of Sudan)
Marla Bergman: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
Beth Wrenn-Estes: Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Barnes (A must-read for werewolf
lovers!)
Program Sharing:
JoAnn Rees: Has anyone done an official Monopoly tournament
Sandi Imperio: Santa Cruz has done this in the past. If you officially sign up with
Monopoly, they will send you free games every other year. In order for it to be an
official tournament there has to be 24 players and that was difficult to get. You
can still sign up and you get to keep the games even if it is not officially a
tournament. Sandi said they have 13 participants the first year and 7 the second.
Nichole King: Spring cookie decorating program- this was one hour long and there were
about 30 teens/tweens who came. They decorated between 2-3 cookies each.
Dolly Goyal: Dolly did something similar but with cupcakes (and she did all the baking
while she was on crutches). She baked all of the cupcakes but suggested in the
future that you ask your local grocery store if they can bake cupcakes without the
frosting so you don’t have to do all that baking! Safeway is willing to do this and
they also will donate a $25 gift card for the event.
Sarah La Torra: Teen event series in May: They are going to do events that have to do
with getting fit for summer: get fit for swimsuits, exercise bike, yoga, hula-hoop,
nutrition, Kinect, etc. There will be reusable bottle giveaways for those teens who
do at least 2 events.
Jack Baur: Berkeley PL will be closing their branches for renovations. There will be
closing parties at each of the branches. With the cameras from a grant for Flip
cameras, Jack will be having his teens document the work in the branches. This
is a great opportunity but he is having problems generating interest. How does
everyone else get volunteers to do things like this Suggestion: call it an
“internship!”
Dana Aleshire: Using Flip cameras in libraries. They will be doing a series of filmmaking
workshops on screen writing, still shots and editing.
Gary Morrison: Duct tape wallets for tweens and teens One librarian is traveling around
to all of the branches doing the same program with each set of teens.
Sarah Neeri: Panel on getting into college
Presentation:
Amanda Jacobs Foust (afoust@co.marin.ca.us)
Teen Summer Reading Program: YOU ARE HERE!
1. Encourage teens to take vacation photos; take the best and frame them to do an
all teen art show in your teen areas
2. Post mystery photos of different places
3. Feature book-of-the-week clues

4. Buy stuff from www.orientaltrading,com
5. Have the teens film their vacations
6. Do tea tasting from around the world
Other suggestions for ideas on things to do along this theme:
Dana Aleshire: Photo sharing software- www.yogile.com
Nichole King: Design your own travel mug. (Oriental Trading carries these, 6 for
$14.99.) Morgan Hill will have satellite stations to sign up for summer reading.
Chris Selig: Postcard exchange
Marla Bergman: Passport Program- they want the teens visit other branches of SFPL as
a stay-cation rather than a vacation.
Sandi Imperio: Summer Reading dollars as prizes. Sandi and her colleagues push the
pavement to round up local businesses who are willing to exchange summer
reading dollars for goods or services. In their program, 1 hour equals 1 raffle
ticket. The first year they did this 92 tickets were earned. This past summer, 700
tickets were earned! 102 businesses throughout the county participate in this
program. If you are interested in doing something like this a good place to start
this is your local business association or chamber of commerce.
Kelly Brennan Young: Kelly created a booklist. It will be available to everyone in BAYA.
BAYA Business:
Topic for May 24 meeting:
Intellectual Freedom.
Topic for September 27 meeting:
Building an online presence for teen outreach
Book Award Committee:
Nicole King (not present at this meeting) was thinking about starting a BAYA
Award. She wanted to know if other people are interested in this too.
People were interested but no one really had the time to commit to creating this
award.
We can revisit this in the future.
BAYA Teen Top 10 Update
Elsie is not here to comment on this.
Website Update:
Jack is giving up his position as Webmaster to Yesica Hurd.
Yesica, Dana and Jack are revamping the website on www.tumblr.com. Once
this is done, when someone accesses our www.BAYA.org website, they will see
the content from Tumblr. (If everyone agrees, we continue to have our website
but Tumblr will be a major component of it)
We will be able to interact with the website more.
We are hoping to have a regular blog where we will have a new post 3 to 4 times
a week.

Jack is looking for articles for the blog that people would be willing to post. He
wants to collect quite a few before the site goes live for a backlog. The website
will automatically post new blogs as often as we schedule them.
If you have an article you would like to put in the blog, please email Yesica at
yesicah@gmail.com.
We can link this to a Facebook page. (So that means we will have to create a
BAYA Facebook page!)
There will also be an option for RSS feed.
New BAYA Logo:
The logo is old and needs a little makeover. How do we come up with a new
one
After a short discussion, we decided on having a contest for any of our BAYA
libraries whose teens are interested.
$50 gift card for winner approved by Treasurer and rest of members present
Rough Guidelines:
o Size: 8 ½ x 11 inches
o Who can enter: 6-12 th grade students
o Color: should be in color but must have black & white version as well
o Format: JPEG
o Must say BAYA and have Bay Area Young Adult Librarians
Book Review Editor statement:
Marie would like to remind everyone that the format and guidelines for the
reviews are on the website.
Please make sure you have your review to Marie by the end of the first week of
the month of the next meeting. (If you picked up a book in January, the review is
due by March 4 th .)
Marie is going to create a Google Doc on The Cloud so people can keep track of
their reviews.
She will also email you a reminder of the books you have signed out.
2011 BAYA Workshop:
The CLA graphic novel workshop was so successful that Jack suggested that
we rework it as our workshop for this year.
There would be lots of interest from libraries who currently have graphic novel
collections but this would be totally relevant to people looking to start collections.
Jack would like to have a “comic book petting zoo” and perhaps and iPad with
the new Marvel Comics iPad app, which will gives people access to over 500
graphic novels. The iPad is going to be the ereader for comics and graphic
novels.
Chris says we can do it in San Leandro again.
We will work on a date but we will try for October or November of 2011.
We will discuss this further at the next meeting.