Eastern Suffolk BOCES School Library System

Julie Davis Lutz, Ph.D. Chief Operating Officer

Kate Davern Director, Education and Information Support Services

Carl Vitevitch Administrative Coordinator, School Library System

Eastern Suffolk BOCES School Library System COUNCIL MEETING Friday, May 19, 2017 ~ 8:45 – 10:00am Suffolk Cooperative Library System (Blue Room) 627 North Sunrise Service Road, Bellport, NY 11713 Minutes

1) Welcome by Valerie Ware Comneck, Chairperson – meeting commenced at 8:51 am

Members Present: Bonnie Bredes Daniene Byrne Valerie Ware Comneck Leah Donley Dana Antonucci-Durgan Robert Hines Derek Ivie Catherine Lynch Pat McCabe Melissa McParland Jan Miller Carl Vitevitch

Members Absent: Cheryl Carr Claire Cucchi Peggie Staib

VOTING ITEMS:

2) Minutes from the November 30, 2016 Council Meeting

School Library System • Department of Education and Information Support Services Middle States Accredited 627A North Sunrise Service Road • Bellport, NY 11713-1540 Phone: 631-286-0891 • Fax: 631-286-0985 • E-mail: [email protected]

Approved via email 3) New Council Members Susan Sclafani Theresa Ameres

Motion to approve by Bonnie Bredes, seconded by Robert Hines. All approved.

4) New Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson Bonnie Bredes – Chairperson Melissa McParland – Vice-Chairperson

Motion to approve by Robert Hines, seconded by Dana Antonucci—Durgan. All approved.

DISCUSSION ITEMS:

5) Status of Co-Sers

a) Library Automation Co-Ser 508 All districts are at current version of where they need to be for OPALS and Follett.

b) Library Services/Media Co-Ser 516

1. Central Islip removed themselves from the co-ser. SLS is working with them to make sure they have what they need.

2. Added the following databases to the VRC:

 World Almanac for Kids ~ for elementary and middle school collections  FactCite 123 ~ for all three collections  Rosen eBooks: Spotlight on Kids Can Code (4 titles) and Explorers and Colonization (24 titles)

c) There will be a 1% participation fee increase for 508 &516 for the 2017-2018 school year

OTHER:

1. End of school year evaluation will be sent to the librarians

This evaluation covers VRC/DML, trainings, MakerBot, evidence collection, leadership academy, etc. Carl has been and will continue to be visiting liaisons in their home districts to meet with them one on one.

2. World Language Evaluation will be sent to the librarians

This evaluation asks for suggestions of titles, languages, how to better the service, etc. Carl asked the librarians to share this survey with the school’s ENL/ESL teachers.

Special thanks to Pat McCabe, Administrator, Eastern Suffolk BOCES Communications & Research, for reviewing both surveys.

3. NYLA-SSL Conference ~ May 3 – 5, 2018

4. Summer Project – Member mailing in September The mailing will be a physical packet sent to librarians. It will contain information on how to subscribe to the SLS listserv, what is in the VRC/DML, what languages you can get translated in the databases, etc.

Motion to adjourn – Robert Hines, seconded by Derek Ivie. Meeting adjourned at 9:45 am.