00:37:58 Mary Witt: Here is the link for the member update agenda: https://librarylearning.org/system/files/2021-09/RAILS%20Member%20Update%20Agenda%209-30-21.pdf 00:38:13 Mary Witt: We will start in a few minutes! 00:40:53 Ryan Livergood: Good morning 00:41:19 Karin Nelson: good morning all, what a beautiful morning :) 00:41:55 Cheryl Harlow: Monica Harris I like your new hairdo 00:41:58 Monica Dombrowski: Good morning everyone! 00:42:47 Monica Harris: Thank you, Cheryl! 00:43:11 Anne Miskewitch: Hi everyone! Happy day before Friday! 00:44:09 Monica Dombrowski: TOTALLY! 00:44:22 Carolyn Coulter: as happy as a Royals fan is miserable (like me) 00:44:26 Scott Davis: Cautiously happy... 00:44:27 Tari Sangston: Love your sweater Deirdre! 00:44:31 Jennifer Garden: I'm happy that hockey is back. :) 00:44:41 Monica Dombrowski: At least we made it this far! Go Sox! 00:49:42 Kate Hall: Woohoo! Congrats to RAILS. So well deserved 00:57:04 Kathryn Martens: sorry you lost me 00:57:54 Deirdre Brennan: Kathryn are you using text or the web? 00:58:15 Lisa Lockheart: Can you put the url link here so we can copy it 00:58:28 Mary Aylmer: https://pollev.com/constructive785 00:58:57 Mary Aylmer: Of course! 00:59:22 Jennifer Garden: I had to enter the page URL and then hit enter twice to get in. (on Chrome) 00:59:43 Nicole Zimmermann: what's norgie? :) 01:00:08 Carolyn Coulter: norgie pancakes (norweigen pancakes) 01:00:23 Carolyn Coulter: too lazy to type Norweigen 01:01:20 Kate Hall: I feel like Carolyn should consider volunteering to make all of us some norgie's so we can try them out. :p 01:01:44 Carolyn Coulter: they are delicious! try them if you ever go up to Door county 01:01:49 Nicole Zimmermann: "swiss"? 01:01:50 Sara Murray: It looks like someone entered "swiss army knife" as three words, so they split up and float around apart from one another. 01:02:06 Nicole Zimmermann: That's excellent! 01:04:10 Deirdre Brennan: Jenny you should see the word cloud 01:04:22 Deirdre Brennan: that Stephanie is sharing 01:07:07 Juanita Harrell: Hi! 01:07:19 THOMAS STAGG: Hi! 01:12:01 Monica Harris: If you'd like to review the current strategic plan, you can find it here: https://www.railslibraries.info/about/strategic-plan 01:20:02 Genna Buhr: consultation with issues 01:20:43 Genna Buhr: oops - forgot to go to phone! 01:35:27 Carol Dolin: Thank you for doing this. It is great to see your process! 01:35:30 Kate Buckson: This was awesome! Thanks, Stephanie. 01:36:16 Ryan Livergood: Thank you, that was great! 01:36:22 Carolyn Coulter: thx! have a good day! 01:36:30 Jason Katsion: Thanks. 👏 01:37:14 Monica Harris: The link for more about the Member Town Halls: https://www.railslibraries.info/news/252552 01:37:54 Carol Dolin: I echo Dierdre. Love the polling! 01:38:19 Stephanie Chase: Thank you all for participating! 01:38:46 Stephanie Chase: Nincy is also a member of our Strategic Planning Steering Committee :) 01:44:12 Lisa Lockheart: What are the languages that will be available? 01:45:42 Carol Dolin: This is awesome, Nincy! 01:46:44 Lisa Williams: What a great service! 01:47:35 Nicole Zimmermann: Great job Nincy. This is so cool. 01:47:46 Kate Hall: Is there a limit on how many items you can submit? 01:48:29 Kate Hall: That seems very generous. ty :) 01:53:46 Kevin Davis: Is there a template for the IGA available? 01:54:34 Deirdre Brennan: you are showing up as Jennifer 01:55:16 Jennifer Czajka: Some links to accompany Kate’s info…..ILP’s website with lots of info: https://sites.google.com/view/illinoislibrariespresent/home 01:55:54 Lisa Lockheart: Sorry, had to take a phone call. What is this topic? 01:56:28 Mary Witt: The Illinois Libraries Present Joint Programming Cooperative 01:56:29 Karin Nelson: Lisa: IL Libraries Present Joint Programming : https://sites.google.com/view/illinoislibrariespresent/home 01:56:33 Jennifer Czajka: Our ILP Committee Interest Form. Please encourage your staff to join us on committees to be part of presenting this new initiative. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVkjB8Qelk6mEsbNmHJ-j6emdcPdSjKfrpOOP6mDoNM1fOxg/viewform 01:57:20 Jennifer Czajka: The membership interest form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScB9ivMh6KS3yeVpiioMrV9zD2cy4k3c2ZUGuOIRDkY1JdIIg/viewform 01:59:31 Ryan Livergood: This is awesome and I think/hope the pricing structure makes this accessible for libraries of all sizes! 😃 02:00:13 Monica Harris: Very excited about the potential for resource sharing in Illinois libraries with this project! Such a great idea. 02:01:15 Monica Dombrowski: Solves a BIG problem for small and rural colleagues! 02:02:00 Valerie Woodley: Is the example of $40 for a year or what timeframe to join? 02:02:17 Jennifer Czajka: $40 is for the 6 month pilot, Valerie! 02:02:36 Jennifer Czajka: For $40, you can participate in all programs offered or choose only those of interest to your committee 02:02:42 Jennifer Czajka: I meant community :) 02:02:58 Barbara Love: Is that a listserve just for this opportunity? 02:03:24 Barbara Love: Thanks 02:03:47 Valerie Woodley: Where do we get forms again? 02:03:49 Nicole Zimmermann: long-time coming! 02:03:54 Kate Hall: Here is a link for the slides: • all Asian languages and non-latin, African and indigienous, new Zealand, Australian 02:03:54 Jennifer Czajka: Thanks for your support, RAILS. We are so excited to connect with everybody on this 02:03:59 Kate Hall: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zIvJrcCp5Jm5h9zci3BTgc_tvgUfE0Ov4cTZkEV9L7s/edit?usp=sharing 02:04:03 Emily Hoffman: Sounds great! Thank you 02:04:25 Jennifer Czajka: Form again (this is step 1): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScB9ivMh6KS3yeVpiioMrV9zD2cy4k3c2ZUGuOIRDkY1JdIIg/viewform 02:05:05 Jennifer Czajka: The form does not obligate you to participate. But we’d love to know you’re interested! 02:06:34 Kate Hall: I will be bringing a vaccine mandate policy to my board at the October meeting. My board wants to move forward with this 02:06:37 Ryan Livergood: We are asking staff to get the vaccine OR get a COVID test weekly 02:06:42 Laura Keyes-Kaplafka: Dunlap Public Library Board just voted down a Mandatory Vaccine Policy this past Monday. 02:06:54 Laura Bartnik: not at this time, as all staff are vaccinated, but watching to see how this all unfolds 02:06:57 Kevin Davis: N. Aurora Library Board is not considering a policy on vaccine mandates so far. 02:07:01 Ryan Livergood: And that has been officially approved by the Board, starts next week 02:07:01 Valerie Woodley: At this time we feel it is up to eachindividual because we are a small library. We wear masks. 02:07:02 Heather Zabski: We are waiting for more guidance from the federal and Illinois government. 02:07:05 Kristi Scherer: Creston-Dement is planning on mandatory vaccine 02:07:15 Angela Campbell: We will follow whatever the City decides to do. They haven't made any decisions just yet. 02:07:32 Lauren Rosenthal: Waiting to see what how the 100+ employees are defined by the federal government 02:07:35 Julie Wayland: All of our staff are willingly vaccinated, so no issue here 02:07:44 Melissa Sierra: Previously at large city libraries, I always had to adhere to vaccinations and communicable disease testing. I will be working to take one to my board at next month's meeting. 02:07:44 Kate Hall: @Lauren, us too but the board wants to move forward regardless 02:08:02 Jessica McGlothlin: All but 1 of out staff is vaccinated. 02:08:09 Jessica McGlothlin: *of 02:08:21 Jessica McGlothlin: *our 02:08:28 Ryan Livergood: I know some other libraries in our area are actively considering/discussing this 02:08:51 Kate Hall: I will just share that we are still very understaffed and that we are pretty tired over here at Northbrook 02:08:51 Jennifer Garden: We just started a Science Saturday program bouncing off of a very popular summer program. 02:09:05 Barbara Love: Do we have any word on when State Library will announce grant outcomes? 02:09:06 Jennifer Garden: Usually, we have just a couple people at a new program. We had 6! 02:09:07 Emily Faulkner: DeKalb just got an IGA with our township to provide library cards to all non-residents not otherwise covered by our agreements with the school and cards for kids 02:09:09 Jennifer Garden: Yes, Milledgeville 02:09:11 Lisa Williams: Moline Public Library is included in Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities ALA book 02:09:45 Kathryn Martens: Any word on Per Capita Grant application process and timeline? 02:09:56 Kevin Davis: The Messenger N. Aurora Library will host a Retirement Open House for Kevin Davis on Sunday Dec 12th. The Board is in the process of reviewing resumes and planning for succession. Kevin's final day of work at Messenger after 16 years is Dec 30th 2021 02:09:57 Lisa Knasiak: Good work, everyone! 02:10:11 Pamela Leffler: The Morton Grove Public Library just completed a long, long, long overdue renovation of our lower level/YS Department. On time and under budget! 02:10:24 Kate Hall: @Kevin, love that you are talking about yourself in the 3rd person. Congrats on your imminent retirement 02:10:28 Heather Zabski: https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/library/grants/plpc_equalization.html 02:10:35 Jennifer Garden: Milledgeville is also in the finishing process of our first-ever strategic plan. 02:10:53 Lauren Rosenthal: Thanks Heather! 02:11:20 Karin Nelson: thanks for all you do RAILS :) 02:11:27 Kevin Davis: thanks much Dee and everyone at RAILS ! Great job! 02:11:37 Jessica McGlothlin: Thank you! 02:11:38 Jenny Jackson: Thank you all! 02:11:42 Kate Hall: Thank you! Bye :) 02:11:42 Catherine Yanikoski: Thank you! 02:11:45 Barbara Love: Great Meeting - thanks 02:11:49 Ryan Livergood: Thank you! 02:11:53 Emily Hoffman: Thanks! 02:11:55 Michelle Armbruster: Thank You!