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

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