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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:39 1997
From: karen wendt <kmwendt@scls.lib.wi.us>
ubject: re: ideas for class visits
These kind of ideas are just what I like to see on Pubyac. I am just in my
second year of trying to get into the middle school across the street and
share books and fun with the kids. This got started as part of an LSCA grant
to provide services as well as materials to teens with special needs. I need
lots of ideas on 15 minute to half hour things to do with 5th-8th grade kids.
To promote our summer library program for this age group, I made up a
Password type game with simple rules using the Middle Ages theme. The kids
loved it. They were split into two teams ususally based on where they were
sitting in the room. Each team took a turn sending someone up to give a one
word clue. The team were allowed time to come up with a one word response.
One teen from the group was the spokesperson. The word went back and forth
to each team until the word was guessed. Words included: unicorn, wizard,
goblet, midwife, etc. Books on the Middle Ages were displayed and booktalked
briefly and after the game I told them about the teen reading club and other
activities. Membership has increased from 44 in 1996 to over 56 in 1997.
Keep up the great ideas, PUBYACERS. Karen
On June 20 Judy Dishong wrote:
Every November, in honor of Children's Book Week, we do a Reader's
Theater in our elementary schools. One year we used Diane Siebert's
_Train Song_. As you read aloud, you can hear the rhythm of the train:
slowly pulling out of the station, picking up speed, racing along, slowing
down, and then pulling back into the next station.
We held a wooden block in each hand, brushing them back and forth with
each word, which gave the effect of the clickety-clack of the train. (You've
got to be careful while racing along - it can get a little loud!) We ended with
three wooden clacks after reading, then used a real train whistle (the wooden
guy) to end the reading (long and low).
It was fun and appreciated by students (all ages) and teachers alike. It
took several times practicing with the 3 of us, but it could be done alone.
This list is great ! Judy
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kmwendt@scls.lib.wi.us
Karen M. Wendt, Children's and Young Adult Coordinator
Monona Public Library
1000 Nichols Road, Monona WI 53716
608-222-6127
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:45 1997
From: DENWALL@aol.com
Subject: ALCTS on the offensive
8-2-97
Forward re: ALCTS web site
Please note the express purpose of this new web site:
"In order to provide additional support for librarians faced with
management
decisions that might involve outsourcing....."
Does ALCTS not speak to anyone but managers on this
issue????
Pat Wallace, SLIS graduate student, & future school librarian
denwall @ aol.com
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997
From: Lois Ann Gregory-Wood <lgregory@ala.org>
To: ALA Council List <alacoun@ala1.ala.org>
Subject: Outsourcing
Councilor Alex Bloss asked me to post the following message on the Council
Listserv.
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ALCTS has developed a website on the outsourcing of library technical
services. You may find it at http://www.ala.org/alcts/now. What follows is
a press release giving more background on ALCTS and the source of the
documents on the website. I invite you to look at it. Alex Bloss,
ALCTS Councilor
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ACQflash ** ACQflash ** ACQflash ** ACQflash ** ACQflash *
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997
From: Karen Muller (ALA) <kmuller@ala.org>
Subject: Outsourcing Release -Forwarded
Library Technical Services Outsourcing
Over the years, the Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services (ALCTS) has provided information and forums for discussion about
responsible practices for all aspects of library technical services and
collection development, including outsourcing. At the 1996 ALA Annual
Conference, the ALCTS Commercial Technical Services Committee sponsored a
preconference and a program on outsourcing, with part of these
presentations repeated for a special forum on outsourcing at the 1997
Midwinter Meeting. The same committee has also collaborated on a
book,_Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Public,
Academic, and Special Libraries_, which will be published by ALA in a few
weeks.
In order to provide additional support for librarians faced with management
decisions that might involve outsourcing, ALCTS is making some of the
handouts from the preconference, program and forum available on web site.
These include a general discussion of outsourcing, "Planning and
Implementing an Outsourcing Program, by Karen W. Wilson, Head Technical
Services Librarian/Assistant, J. Hugh Jackson Library, Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University. This is supplemented by a table that includes
a selection of acquisitions and collection development services and the
cataloging, physical processing, and preservation services available from
commercial vendors, matched with the scope of vendor services programs
available; a set of pros and cons of outsourcing, and a select bibliography.
These will be updated from time to time as new information becomes
available. The outsourcing documents are available at
http://www.ala.org/alcts/now and Fax-on-Demand, 800/545-2433, press 8.
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:45 1997
From: Jeanette Carolyn Larson <jlarson@tenet.edu>
Subject: TX Woman's Univ/Fellowships
The School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University
will offer four master's degree fellowships under the Library Career
Training Grant Program. Studies may begin in Fall 1997 or Spring 1998.
Fellowships will be awarded to students interested in becoming children's
or youth services librarians.
Fellowships include full tuition and fees for 12 montsh plus a living
stipend of up to $14,000 depending on financial need.
For information on applying contact Dean Keith Swigger, SLIS/TWU, PO Box
425438, Denton, TX 76204-5438; email slis@twu.edu; call 940-898-2603.
Submitted by Jeanette Larson, Texas State Library (at the request of TWU)
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:46 1997
From: dorthybr@cadvantage.com (Dorothy M. Broderick)
ubject: Can You Help?
For a bibliography I am working on, I would appreciate nominations
from any of you out there.
!) Books in which the male central character (usually first person
narrator) starts out as a smart-mouth, wise-guy, know-it-all, etc., etc.,
etc. At the end of the book he has joined the human race but only through
some major tragedy that happens to someone or something he loves: death of
kid brother, dog, etc., or fatal disease strikes. For example: Changes in
Latitudes by Will Hobbs.
2) That's the easy one! When we change male to female, can anyone
think of any titles? I admit I haven't gone through every bibliography in
my home professional collection, but so far I can't come up with a single
title.
ALMOST FORGOT: the books do have to be top quality, BBYA or Quick
Picks, good enough to be in paperback reprints OR stood the test of time
(in YA terms that means five years).
Please respond directly and do note that the great computer whizzes
of the world could not cope with dorothy, so I lost the second o. Am
getting used to listserv jargon, so TIA!
Dorothy
Dorothy M. Broderick "Life is too important to be taken
seriously." Oscar Wilde
2025 Prairie Lane
Emporia, KS 66801
(316) 342-9277
(316) 342-6391 (also fax)
e-mail: dorthybr@cadvantage.com
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:46 1997
From: Smith <lsmith@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Source for Stumpers
Press release:
The American Juvenile Collection (AJC) has a new web address that searches
the database records by keyword:
http://www.liunet.edu/but08/ajc/ajc.htm
The AJC is research collection that contains children's fiction and
folklore printed by American publishers from 1910-1960. It includes the
Christine B. Gilbert collection of children's books, both fiction and
non-fiction, published prior to 1909.
The collection is located at the Palmer School of Library and Information
Science, Long Island University, Brookville, NY.
Contact: Dr. Diana Spirt, spirt@aurora.liunet.edu
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:45 1997
From: Carolyn Caywood <carolyn@infi.net>
Subject: need fantasy recommendations
The local organization of youth services librarians has made a deal
to write a column for the local tabloid for parents. I'm first up,
and the editor wants an article on fantasy and imagination. She wants
about 10 books for all ages from toddler to teen.
I want to cover a diversity of cultures also, not just the usual
European folk traditions. And, I want to introduce other kinds of
fantasy besides sword&sorcery.
I would be grateful for suggestions, especially for younger readers.
Also, I am wondering about the popularity of Tove Jannson's
Moomintroll books, which I'd thought of including.
The books need to be in print, preferably in bookstores, and I don't
intend to cover titles that "everybody knows."
This list has given me so many good suggestions in the past, that I
can thank y'all in advance! Send ideas directly to me, and of course
I will post a summary.
Carolyn Caywood % Save the time of the Reader %
carolyn@infi.net % --Ranganathan's 4th Law %
http://www6.pilot.infi.net/~carolyn/ FAX:757-464-6741
936 Independence Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 23455 757-460-7519
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:46 1997
From: Candy Bertelson <candyb@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
Subject: Re: Defending View
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, F. Brautigam wrote:
> I would like to disagree (politely, I hope) with the trashing of The View
> from Saturday. I read it long before it won the Newbery, and found it to
> be absorbing, intriguing, and very finely crafted. I would booktalk it
> in a heartbeat,
I certainly would not want to trash The View from Saturday, but just want
to present another experience with the book. I have a bright fifth-grade
nephew who shares my love of reading and we often read books together. He
was excited about reading the new Newbery because he LOVED From the
Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Unfortunately, however, he
and I were both so bored with the first few chapters of The View from
Saturday that neither of us had any enthusiasm about finishing it. Since
I try never to booktalk books I personally don't like, it would not be on
my booktalking list.
But as with all things in life, one person's dud may be the other
person's favorite. I had a young woman in the other day who was thrilled
to find A View from Saturday on the shelf. Hope she still felt that way
after reading it! :)
Candy Bertelson Children's Library Manager
Multnomah County Library 801 SW Tenth Ave., Portland, OR 97205
(503)248-5340(v) (503)248-5226(f) candyb@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Sun Aug 3 20:50:46 1997
From: karen wendt <kmwendt@scls.lib.wi.us>
ubject: after hours party for teens
We are planning on having an after hours party for teens entering 6th to
11th grade. Most of these will be in the 6th and 7th grade range. What I
need to know is what you have done about a permission form. What if teens
come to library and want to leave. Any other suggestions, tips etc on the
planning aspects, problem solving or problems that could come up-- not
necessarily including fun things to do once they are there--please send to
me directly ASAP. Thanks. Karen
kmwendt@mail.scls.lib.wi.us
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kmwendt@scls.lib.wi.us
Karen M. Wendt, Children's and Young Adult Coordinator
Monona Public Library
1000 Nichols Road, Monona WI 53716
608-222-6127
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