December+7,+2011

NYCSLS Council Council Meeting #2 Date: December 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 - 3:00pm Place: New Visions for Public Schools

Members in attendance : Christine Hatami (Secretary),Maureen Hurley, Dr. Elizabeth B. Pollicino, Sheila Schofer, Robert Nelson, Sally Young, Linda Williams-Bowie, Arlene Dominguez, Jessica Kaplan SLS Office Staff in attendance : Melissa Jacobs Israel, Elizabeth Naylor-Gutierrez, Lynne Kresta Smith, Leanne Ellis, Olga Nesi, Barbara Stripling

Documents at meeting: Five-Year Library System Plan of Service

Agenda: 12:00 - 12:30 Greetings and Introductions 12:30 - 1:00 Announcements and Information 1:00 - 2:30 Plan of Service Revision 2:30 - 3:00 Projects of Council Members

//Announcements and Information// Notes From the Chair Janna Robbin has stepped down as the Vice Chair. She also represented NYPL. The Council would like to welcome new member Caroline Falivena who will be temporarily replacing Janna. Nominations for the position of Vice Chair are Sally Young and Robert Nelson. All members will be notified by email and invited to make additional nominations. The vote will take place at the next meeting. Relocation of NYCSLS The SLS office has moved to 333 7th Avenue between 28th and 29th Street. The new phone numbers are listed on the website. Transition to New Director The position for a new director has not been posted as yet. An inquiry will be sent to NYLA and SLMS. //Plan of Service Revision// Review Current Plan The resource sharing piece is complete. The pilot program, Bibliocommons will be added at a later date. We still need to provide a delivery system. The language of the POS is very general. We will be using the past POS (2000-2006 and 2006–2011) to add, change and update the Plan. Other cities have Plans that we could look at but their BOCES’ provide services that NYC does not provide. The focus will be on Element 4, Continuing Education and Training. Members went through the Plan to make changes, adding Common Core language throughout. Discussion followed that centered on Special Client Groups such as ELL’s, etc. //DOE/NYPL Union Catalog Pilot// Barbara said that we need to plan our roll-out beyond this year. We need to determine the value of libraries for our students. There is the potential for grounding school libraries in substantive Common Core work and connecting with Common Core curriculum materials. The focus should be on informational text so students could use tradebooks as well as textbooks. The Union Catalog can provide home access that will promote the role of school libraries at home. Barbara reported the activities piece has been cut out of the POS. When Barbara writes the annual report, the activities are included. She also will capture data on resources, such as # of collections, etc. The last POS was “wonderfully successful” in that it was able to answer the needs of librarians through the goal statements. It also fit well with the Common Core. Arlene asked what needed to be ‘tweaked’ on the POS? Barbara responded that the Common Core was the big change this year. Elizabeth added that the foundation is already there. Barbara said that another area of need is e-readers and online resources. Also, services to differentiated populations, such as, special education, incarcerated youth, Campus librarians, etc. Linda stated that the SLS Handbook and the Library Learning Walk is still in place and effective. Barbara added that we need to provide a broad service to schools that can remain consistent through current and future restructuring. Barbara said that the high school to college and career ready plan could be added to Element 9, Cooperative Efforts with Other Library Systems. Linda asked if the state rubric has a role in the POS? Barbara responded that we could use the rubric as part of the member plan, Section 4, Planning. The five-year POS can be revised each year, if necessary. Olga stated that we need to have full knowledge of who is staffing the libraries. Jessica said that we could use the networks to collect data on libraries by devising a strategy of outreach to the libraries. Linda said that the Campus libraries are particularly difficult to collect accurate staffing data. Barbara stated that it would be great if every school took the rubric and applied it in conjunction with the librarian, principal and teachers to find out what is the state of NYC school libraries.

//Projects of Council Members// Public Libraries Graduate Schools METRO (report filed by Ton Nielson) METRO is currently working on a Community Partner Program to extend the METRO community to allied information management organizations in the region. They are also working to develop a regional calendar for events of interest to libraries, archives, and other information professionals in the region. In addition, METRO is looking for Member Spotlights for their website. Please contact Tom Nielsen (tnielsen@metro.org) if anyone is interested in working with them on a spotlight for your library. The Special Interest Group Conveners are being encouraged to work with school librarians on their programs. Tom would like to know who would be the best person for our SIG conveners to contact if they'd like to partner with school librarians on a program? School Libraries

The meeting was adjourned at 3:00.

Next meeting: January 11, 2012 at Mid-Manhattan Library.

Respectfully submitted by Christine Hatami