October Meeting Minutes

The second meeting of Fall 2010 Council was held October 5, 2010 from 6:00-7:00 PM at the Mooresville Public Library. Dominos Pizza was served.

In attendance:
Library Representative Meghan Adams and Suzanne Walker
Sarah Brown Anastacia Jensen Tyann Miller
Kyle Casteel Luke Jensen Caleb Miller
Abby Felder Emily Kirk Cecily Parell
Catherine Freer Elijah Miller Danielle Ross
Hanna Seyerle Keegan Seyerle Michael Smith
Molly Whitley Brandon Thiede Jeff Browne


Michael Smith was promoted from Vice President to Co-President with Anastacia Jensen. Sarah Brown remained scribe and Kyle Casteel remained 2nd scribe.

Minutes from the last meeting were passed out. Meeting minutes will be posted on the blog.

Suzanne submitted the report for the 2010 Teen Summer Reading Program (TSRP). This closes last year’s grant cycle.

Meghan gave a teen program update.
o The Mystery Dinner will be held next Saturday, October 9th. Attendees are to arrive a little before 6, and should let Meghan know ahead of time if they will be late. They should dress to their character. Hors devours will be served. The theme is Clue. It is currently full with a waiting list.
o College Funding Night will be held Thursday, November 18th, from 7:00-8:15 PM in the Community Room. This program is geared toward juniors and seniors. Parents are advised to attend as well. This program is aimed to help students nearing college explore funding options.

Suzanne gave an update on teen programs as well.
o The theme for this year’s Fall Reading Program is Teen’s Read. It has changed from last year. This year you must read nine books of at least 100 pages in length. Forms were passed out. Each completed form will be entered in a drawing to win an iPod. Logging will begin October 18th , the beginning of Teen Read week. It was brought to attention that we should get these forms out to the middle school and high school. Suzanne has already sent a form to a high school teacher.
o The RPG lock-in will be held November 12th. This year it is open to everyone and every genre of RPG. This year the lock-in will include Zombie Apocalypse, Steam Punk, and classic role playing. You do not have to know how to role play to attend. The planning meeting will be October 19th. If you plan, you will not be playing.

Our three goals for this year, to recap, are letter writing for free stuff, making a video to promote the library/TSRP, and writing one YAR grant for TSRP. We split into three committees to divide these tasks. Bold type indicates leader.

Letter Writing: Meghan, Kyle, Molly, Emily, Abby, Cecily, Danielle, and Elijah

Grant Writing: Sarah, Anastacia, Michael, and Catherine

Video Making: Suzanne, Keegan, Hanna, Caleb, Tyann, Luke, Brandon, and Jeff

The letter writing committee developed a list of businesses to send letters. They divided who would write to which company.

The grant writing committee wanted to replace the summer reading program theme “You are Here.” They presented a new theme, “A Whole New World.” They also divided up what parts of the grant each person would work on.

The video making group is going to enter a video into a contest using the theme “You are Here.” They plan to have people take pictures of themselves where they read with a red arrow (which they made) pointing to them.

The next Abstract will focus on the online presence of the library including YouTube, blogs, and Facebook.

The next teen council meeting will be held November 2nd. Suzanne is possibly going to buy the game “Werewolves of Wizard’s Manor.” It teaches role playing and is a fun game. Another game possibility is “Munchkin.” We will also watch the library video which promotes getting a library card. A question was brought to the table. Can we sell copies of the video under parodies for a fundraiser? We will decide on the theme for the 2010 TSRP and look at the catalogue for prizes. Applications need to be turned in!