September Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The Teen Advisory Board met at the Headquarters branch in Westampton on Tuesday night, September 12. Here's what we talked about:

The Teen Zone neon sign has come in and is waiting to be installed in the YA area at HQ.

HQ Programs:

The DDR program originally scheduled for November 9 has been cancelled. The DDR program on Saturday, October 21 is still on.

The Halo tournament is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, January 13. As discussed at the August meeting, the registration will be limited to 16 with 4 on the waitlist, with an age limit 13-18. Fliers will state the game’s Mature rating. We currently have 2 Xboxes, 5 controllers, 3 copies of the game and 1 24” TV volunteered. We need volunteers to bring 3 link cables, 5 hookups, 2 more Xboxes, 1 more copy of the game and 3 TVs.

The library director has said yes to a Library Lockin program. It’s currently scheduled for Saturday, August 4, 2007 and will be all night after the library closes. Permission slips will be needed.

TAB decided we wouldn’t be able to get a cosplay program together in time for Halloween. Instead there will be two cosplay costume making workshops on February 3 and 10 (15 people limit), and then a cosplay fashion show, accompanied by Jpop and other music, on March 3. YA librarian will purchase some costume making materials with money from the YA programming budget.

TAB wants to do a combined Japanese tea party/anime party. A number of anime titles were discussed, including Eureka 7, Comet Party, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Azumanga DaiOh. TAB also suggested doing a InuYasha movie marathon.

Literary Magazine – Everyone looked at an example from Elizabeth Public Library. Kathleen will contact the YA librarian at Elizabeth to find out more about how they did their magazine. There were many suggestions for a title, including the following: Freeze Frame Through Teenage Minds, Complex Omega, Reverse Flip, Dream Sword, Soft Evolution, Switch Form, Slumber Dash, Elemental Nocturne, Lost Symphony, Immediate Now, Blue Horizon, Emerald …, Marine Tear, Insanto Flame, Funky Money Monkey, Flashmonkey, Tearing Revolution, Blast, Instant Bling (Just Add Teen!), Unknown Agenda, Pink Paradise, Overdrive, Lost Halo, Infinite Rise, High Octane, Adventus Maxima, Seven Draft, Crossblade Embassy, Feuer und Wasser, Blade Curse, Maximum Magic, Omega Monsoon and TAB Drive. Teens will vote on their favorite title.

Kathleen showed printouts from the YA blog in progress (URL is http://bclsya.blogspot.com/). TAB agreed meeting minutes should go up on the blog. Several TAB members expressed interest in working on the library’s teen web page.

Next TAB meeting will be October 10.