2013 Meeting Minutes

NJLA Readers Advisory Roundtable

Meeting Minutes for August 7, 2013 – Monroe Township Public Library

Attendees:       Brenda Muhlbaier, Yvonne Selander, Liz Burns, Amelia Rodriguez, Mary Piekarski, Megan Ingegno, Jennifer Konopacki, C.L. Quillen, Monica Teixeira  

2013 Adult Services Forum – Monday, October 28, 2013 at Monmouth County Library HQ, 125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726

Phone:(732) 431-7220

It was recently announced that there is a theme for this year’s Adult Services Forum which is, “The Practical to the Aspirational”. This year, Sophie and Liz will be doing a program on New Adult Literature (people in their 20’s). I know we’ll get some wonderful ideas on assisting these “new adults” in finding a book that speaks to them.

 Practical! See, we’re already on track with the theme.

We’ve been offered a second program slot for the forum. Deciding whether we now have enough time to develop another program, and what that program will be, is going to be the main topic of our next meeting.

2014 NJLA Conference – June 2 – June 4, 2014 at the Revel in Atlantic City

            Program ideas:

•             A double audiobook program – guest speaker/audiobook RA presentation
•             Program on self-publishing
•             Non-fiction RA
•             Basic RA/ Book Buzz
•             Women’s Fiction RA
•             Weeding
•             Graphic novels co-sponsor

Thank you(s) go out to Amelia Rodriguez for stepping up to be our Vice Chair this year. Another thank you goes to C. L. Quillen for creating our group’s Facebook page. Thank you, both!

Please visit our FB page at:  www.facebook.com/NJLARART

Also, check out Liz’s twitter readers advisory chat every 1^st and 3^rd Thursday of each month at

8 p.m. Join the conversation at: www.readadv.wordpress.com

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 11^th at 2:00 p.m. at Monroe Twp Library

Visit www.monroetwplibrary.org for directions.