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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:08:02 1998
From: Jeri Kladder <jkladder@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
ubject: Booklist Forum at ALA
Does anyone know, yet, where the Booklist Forum discussion children's
books will be help this year. It is always the best Friday night event
around each ALA and I always look forward to it. Thanx for the info.
Jeri Kladder, Children's Librarian & Storyteller
jkladder@freenet.columbus.oh.us
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, Ohio
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:08:28 1998
From: CCHATFIELD@myriad.middlebury.edu
Subject: Statistics for computer use
Is anyone using a software product that produces useful statistics showing
the number of web sites accessed, or times a CDRom product is used?
Now that circulation statistics are not as solid a tool to measure what
happens in the library on a daily basis, we are searching to measure
computer usage un some way other than number of hours someone sits at a
machine.
Our machines are protected with Fortres, but they have not perfected
a product of their own yet which meets our needs.
Any suggestions from the field would be greatly appreciated!
We are a small library in a town of 8,000. We have eight computers
with public Internet access, all donated to us by Middlebury College
during a recent upgrade. The machines are not state-of-the-art but are
in almost constant use. By the way, we have two designated for email
and chat line usage. If we don't offer it, they'll go to the local
coffeehouse or somewhere else to get it. We want all the people we can
get in the building using our services and feeling that the library is a
vital part of the community.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Carol Chatfield Ilsley Public Library Middlebury, VT
cchatfield@myriad.middlebury.edu
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:51 1998
From: Nissa Perez <harleyq@ucla.edu>
ubject: Folkmanis puppets
They also have a nice website that you can order a catalog through. Its at:
http://www.folkmanis.com
Nissa Perez
email: harleyq@ucla.edu
2nd Year MLIS Student (graduating in June!)
Department of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:51 1998
From: jack323@webtv.net (michael jack)
Subject: Re: puppets
Mail order Folkmanis gives a 50% discount if you buy $200.00 worth of puppets.
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:50 1998
From: Jenny <madison@rocketmail.com>
ubject: skits for children ages 9-13
Hi!
I run an after school program for children ages 9 - 13 and last winter
they had a great time doing an American Girls play. I would like to
do another short play or a couple of skits again this winter and would
like to know if anyone has any ideas about a book or books that may be
useful. Last year I had all girls but this year I have had 3 or 4
boys joining the group so American Girls is not going to work again.
Thank you for any ideas you have and I will post a list, for anyone
else that is interested.
Jennifer Knoerzer
Tuxedo Park Library
Tuxedo, NY 10987
Madison@rocketmail.com
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:08:04 1998
From: Nissa Perez <harleyq@ucla.edu>
ubject: BIB: Kites & Wind, Part II [long!]
Hi fello yakkers =)
Since I got such a large response for the crafts, activities, &c., on the
kites and wind theme, I've decided to post it to the entire list. (Sorry to
all of you who have been wainting for me to get this to you!) I want to
mention that I merely compiled others suggestions without editing and have
included names and/or email addresses. So for some, this might look
familiar. I hope that many of you find this list useful in your future
high-flying adventures!
Thanks again to everyone who contributed!
Nissa
Nissa Perez
2nd year student, MLIS
email: harleyq@ucla.edu
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Crafts and Action Rhymes
SUE_CLD@riverside.lib.ca.us:
I have also made wind streamers with the kids. Attach a variety of
colors of crepe paper streamers to a plastic straw (attach with staples).
These are lots of fun to wave in the wind.
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Lu Benke:
The other thing I have enjoyed doing is posting a good kite poem (There are
lots!) on the back side of a small but colorful kite, and reading it aloud
while moving the kite to match the poem. HTH.
Lu Benke
Media and Children's Services
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street phone: 970-221-6686
Fort Collins, CO 80524 fax: 970-221-6398
lubenke@libsys.ci.fort-collins.co.us
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Ann Scalley:
A simple kite:
decorate a coffee filter with makers tie a light weight string around the
middle (kind of looks like a tiny butterfly (can tie string around middle
and then attach another string too)
Run around outside pulling (flying) kite.
A flannel board poem
You need:
two sisters (mine are wearing kimonos)
a big centipede
a big butterfly
a cloud
TWO LITTLE SISTERS
Two little sisters went walking one day,
Partly for exercise, partly to play.
They took with them kites which they wanted to fly,
One a big centipede, one a great butterfly.
Then up in a moment the kites floated high,
Like dragons that seemed to be touching the sky.
Ann Scalley
kscalley@capecod.net
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Karen Allen:
I do a kite/wind program every year for my 2-4 year old group. I make 5
kites out of different colors of felt and have them name the colors and then
I say:
Five bright kites I bought at the store
Along came a strong wind, and now I have four.
Four bright kites flying over the sea.
Along came a big wave, and now I have three.
Three bright kites, I'll give one to you.
Three bright kites, now I have two.
Two bright kites flew too near the sun.
Poor little kites! Now I have one.
One bright kite - that's enough for me.
I'll keep it away from the kite-eating tree.
I also make kites out of construction paper and laminate them so they can be
reused for years and glue them to large popsicle sticks and have the kids
"fly" them while we sing the following song. It is to the tune of
"The
Farmer in the Dell". It is also with music on Piggyback Songs cassette.
The kids always love doing this.
My kite is up so high,
My kite is up so high,
Oh my...just watch it fly
My kite is up so high.
My kite is falling down,
My kite is falling down,
Oh no...it's down so low
My kite is falling down.
The wind has caught my kite,
The wind has caught my kite,
What fun...I'm on the run
The wind has caught my kite.
My kite is up so high
My kite is up so high,
Oh my...just watch it fly
My kite is up so high.
Jean Warren
This year I added a flannel board story Windy Wash Day that I got from
Caroline Fellow Bauers workbook. I wasn't sure if the kids would like it but
when the clothes flew off the line and dressed up the animals it was LOL from
all the kids.
Karen Allen
Greenville, SC
LibraryAn <LibraryAn@aol.com>
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Paula Lopatic:
A simple windy craft is to precut white posterboard
into a fan shape, let the kids color them, then glue or staple the fan
to a craft stick -- instant wind. Have fun!
Paula Lopatic
Children's Librarian
Vespasian Warner Public Library
Clinton, IL
paulal@alpha1.rpls.lib.il.us
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DJ. Lilly:
Paper bag kites from _Eco-Art_ by Laurie Carlson. These are very easy to
make and don't require any fabric or sticks—the only place I could find such
directions. If you have time and can get your hands on it, I would suggest
taking a look at _Story Time Sampler_
by Paula Sitarz. It has a section of suggested books, stories, and
activities called "Wind, Kites, and Balloons."
DJ. Lilly
Rosenberg Library
Galveston, Texas
childrens.library@utmb.edu
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Michelle Di Giacomo:
There are a lot of books with simple kite patterns (some even fly) using
simple materials. Some titles are:
Greger, Margaret. Kites for everyone
Blown sky-high
Hunt, Leslie. 25 kites that fly
If you have a "kite club" in your area, they might be willing to do a
display and a program. I know that the kite club in San Antonio has done
programs for some of the branches.
Michelle Di Giacomo MDiGiacomo@ci.sat.tx.us
Cortez Branch Library
San Antonio, Texas
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Brian McCreight:
Wonderful origami story, easy to learn: "Satisfaction Guaranteed" in
"Folding Stories & Origami Together as One" by Christine P.
Kallevig.
(Newburgh, IN: Storytime Ink International, 1991.) [DDC 736.982]
I've told this tale countless times to countless listeners of all ages.
Hope this helps. Enjoy!
slan, Brian McCreight, Children's Librarian, Charleston County Library
& Yarnspinner - with no strings attached!
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:52 1998
From: "Smith, Catherine" <smith.catherine@tchden.org>
Subject: How to judge reading/age level
Hi,
I'm hoping that someone on this list can tell me if there is a concise table
or method or article about how you judge the reading and/or age level of
juvenile books -- fiction and non fiction. I work in a consumer health
library, and we have a small collection of juvenile books on health topics,
and some general fiction. In prepartation for our move to a larger space
(!) I want to reclassify into BROAD age groups -- like picture books/very
early reader, elementary age, YA. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kate Smith email: smith.catherine@tchden.org
Family Health Library voice: 303-861-6378
The Children's Hospital fax: 303-861-6786
1056 E. 19th Ave.
Denver, CO 80218
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:50 1998
From: RichardGuy <RichardGuy@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Re: E mail and Chat Rooms
>>>>[*] Major Smeghead was also a popular term.
I used to know him! He was just a corporal then, and into punishment, I
think......
Richard K. Moore, Librarian
Bolsa Grande High School
Garden Grove, CA
Email: RichardGuy@AOL.COM
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:52 1998
From: "Bette Ammon" <bammon@mtlib.org>
Subject: Re: Magic: the Gathering tournaments
For years the YA department at the Pocatello Public Library in Idaho
sponsored Dungeons & Dragons Tournaments every summer. Often it was a
whole week of celebratory sf and fantasy doings - film festivals,
speakers, etc. Volunteer teens created the dungeons and did most of
the work. We gathered prizes from merchants and had great time.
Sometimes the final tournament game went out live on the public
access television channel which was located in the library then.
We got lots of coverage from the local newspaper and an occasional
complaint from someone who thought something evil was afoot. But we
were successful in allaying those fears and providing a terrific
library program firmly connected to the science fiction and fantasy
book collection that surrounded the players.
Bette Ammon
> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 08:57:33 -0600
> From: "Betsy Stroome" <bstroome@lafayette.lib.co.us>
> Subject: Magic: the Gathering tournaments
<snip>
> There are not many other places for kids to congregate. Recently, the =
> card/comic store in town, which has been a major hangout for preteen and =
> teen boys, has just announced that it is closing. It will be closed by =
> the time school lets out in June. We are thinking about adding a =
> tournament to our schedule of events for the summer (Magic or Star =
> Wars). Have any of you done this? Did you run it yourselves, or did =
> you recruit someone who really knows how to play to help? What about =
> providing space for kids to play occasionally, or on a regular basis?
>
Bette Ammon, Director http://www.marsweb.com/~mslaplib
Missoula Public Library 406.721.2005
301 E Main fax 406.728.5900
Missoula MT 59802 bammon@mtlib.org
"Be careful about reading health books, you may
die of a misprint." Mark Twain
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:52 1998
From: Carrie Schadle <bz227@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: ALSC Booth at Annual Conference
I still need your help! There are still some time slots open for
volunteers at the ALSC booth in the exhibit hall! Specifically, the
following (but I can also use a second person at almost all times during
the exhbit hall's open hours):
Saturday 6/27 from 2:00-5:00pm
Sunday 6/28 from 1:00-3:00pm
Monday 6/29 from 2:00-5:00pm
Tuesday 6/30 from 1:00-3:00pm
Even if you could give an hour of your time during one of those time
slots, it would be a tremendous help. Remember, if you can't fit into one
of those times, you can be the second person at almost any time from
9:00-5:00 on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, or from 9:00-3:00 on Tuesday.
Let me know the times when you could be at the booth, then I will let you
know when we need you.
Thanks to everyone who has already volunteered, and in advance to those of
you who I know are going to heed my call this time!!
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Carrie Schadle
Jefferson Market Regional Branch, New York Public Library
bz227@freenet.buffalo.edu
212/243-4334
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:08:39 1998
From: Joanne Ferguson Cavanaugh <joannef@omaha.lib.ne.us>
Subject: If You Like....Read ....
Hello:
We want to come up with some lists to promote our older juvie
fiction (5th & 6th grade) to summer reading club readers. Have any of
you put together reading bibliographies that do this? If so, could you
please send me your lists and I will compile them and post for all.
Thanks!
Joanne Ferguson Cavanaugh
Omaha Public Library - Florence Branch Library
2920 Bondesson St.
Omaha, NE 68112
FAX: 402-444-6607
joannef@omaha.lib.ne.us
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From owner-pubyac@nysernet.org Wed May 20 13:07:53 1998
From: cindio@bedford.lib.nh.us
Subject: Re: E mail and Chat Rooms
My daughter (age 11) has been using a Spanish language chat
room to learn Spanish. She started doing this on her own. I
hadn't really been able to see much use for chatting beyond
supporting the developmental tasks of teens (a valuable service
IMO). But watching her find this use of an emerging technology
on her own, I am reminded again of how we don't know where any
of this technology is going or how it will be incorporated into
the lives of the kids we work with. We need to trust kids to
explore and learn and find new ways of learning and
discovering. I really want to be in the business of helping to
open doors and minds.
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Cindi Ellen O'Connor
Director of Children's Services
Bedford (NH) Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, NH 03110
603-472-2300, FAX 603-472-2978, Email:cindio@bedford.lib.nh.us
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"While the storyteller speaks, a door within the fire creaks
and suddenly flies open." -R.Hunter
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Cindi Ellen O'Connor
Director of Children's Services
Bedford (NH) Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, NH 03110
603-472-2300, FAX 603-472-2978, Email:cindio@bedford.lib.nh.us
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"While the storyteller speaks, a door within the fire creaks
and suddenly flies open." -R.Hunter
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