First Meeting of the School Year!

The first meeting of the Teen Council was held on September 28, 2009 in the library media center with approximately 35 students. The meeting included:

• Mrs. Bushman shared the Shelfari site with the members. Members will continue to turn in book reviews. Mrs. Stout has kept the SHS Shelfari site up to date and there are now close to 350 student book reviews. She has included tags for all major subjects and the TC Picks are tagged as well.
• Mrs. Bushman shared with the members the importance of advocating for the library and helping with the reading celebrations
• The TC Pick book lists were shared. These are the books selected by SHS students as being the best.
• Members created smaller groups in order to facilitate group discussions of books the members are currently reading
• Allyson and Kaitlyn will be co-directors for the council
• Allyson and Kaitlyn suggested looking into a murder mystery event as a fund raiser for the library. More research is to be done regarding this possibility
• The cereal collection community service project was discussed and members were encouraged to bring in cereal for the Compassion Cupboard
• Kaitlyn wants to pursue a warm coat collection community service project
• Lindsey asked about collecting box tops
• Group leaders are: John, Tricia, Brooklyn, and Allyson
• Podcasts may be used to add a new dimension to the book reviews
• The process of selecting the books that become "TC Picks" was discussed
• The meeting ended with door prizes!