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May 9, 2006

YA Services Section Meeting & Potluck

Friday, May 5 was the final YA Services Section Meeting of the year. Every year, our final meeting is capped by a delicious potluck lunch. It's a fun event, and the section decided to make it even more enjoyable by inviting non-members of the section to join us.

We played host to several members of Kimberly Paone's YA Literature & Services class at Rutgers/SCILS, and we hope they will join us next year when our meeting schedule begins anew.

The business meeting portion of the day included a lengthy and lively discussion of the rules regarding elections and ascendancy within the Executive Board of the Section.

Previously, when the Section was a smaller body, one would automatically ascend from Member-at-Large to Secretary and so on up to President and then Past President. This was a nice, homey way for the Section to operate, but it involves a 6-year commitment of time, which is not always practical or feasible. We hammered out some language allowing for a more flexible and fairer method of electing Executive Board members, which will work out better both for EB members and for the Section membership as a whole.

Other topics were covered, such as the Section's proposed workshops at the NJASL Conference this Fall, and a potential statewide Web 2.0 training workshop, to be co-sponsored with the IT Section.

For those interested in the full details of the meeting, you'll be able to read the meeting minutes once they've been posted to the YA Section's page.

We hope to see more non-Section members at next year's open house, and of course, all NJLA members are welcome to attend our business meetings anytime. The next meeting will be Friday, September 22, 2006, from 10-12 (coffee & snacks at 9:30). See you in September!

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