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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #364
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 21:30:45
From: andrew or anne <paradis@jorsm.com>
Subject: Re: "snow in July" program
At 10:45 AM 6/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I am planning a "Snow in July" program and need ideas for crafts,
>especially ideas on how to have a "snowless" snowball fight.
Though the
>program is listed for schoolage children, I know that preschool children
>will also be coming.
>
>Thanks,
>Michelle Di Giacomo MDiGiacomo@x1.ci.sat.tx.us
>Children's Librarian
>Cortez Branch
>San Antonio, Tx
>
>
>Try balling up white paper for snowballs- also try "walking on ice
floes"
with two pieces of paper that you put down one after the other- (sort of
like "twister"). I used both a couple of years ago. Also whipped Ivory
snow- however its very drying and the concentrate doesn't work like the
flakes- don't know if they are available any more.
Anne
>
"'You have no business wearing white to the Middle Ages,'
he'd said, `It will only get dirty.'"
Connie Willis
*Doomsday Book*
Andy or Anne -- Andrew Paradise, Information/Reference Librarian, Medical
Librarian, and Children's Librarian by marriage: Anne Paradise, Children's
Librarian, mystery reader!
Gary Public Library andrew@gary.lib.in.us work
220 West 5th St. paradis@jorsm.com home
Gary, IN 46402 anne@gary.lib.in.us Anne
http://www.jorsm.com/~paradis/
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:02:24 -0400
From: Gwendolyn Davis <dr.book@pop.mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Success stories
At 12:26 PM 7/1/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello! I've just joined this list serve and am looking for success
>stories from libraries that have worked with high needs families. I am
>preparing a presentation for the Missouri Summer Institute for non-MLS
>library staff. Many of the participants are not college graduates and
>are from small or rural libraries. My expertise lies in working with
>high needs families in familiy literacy sites and recruiting
>participants from clinics and WIC offices. What I'm looking for is:
>1. programs that have successfully changed those typically underserved
>populations into library users.
>2. how to identify, attract and recruit at risk youth
>3. how have you developed literacy programs
>4. what agencies have you successfully partnered with.
>
>I will be presenting this information in two hour anda haflf sessions on
>Aug. 18 and 20. I will be happy to complile any information I receive
>and pass it on to the entire list serve.
>
>I'm looking forward to hearing of your successes! (I'm also interested
>in any analysis of "failures".)
>
>Sarah Beaman-Jones
>Family Literacy Specialist
>LIFT-MO
>St. Ann, MO
>1-800-729-4443
>
>
SARAH...
Could you supplement your request with a paragraph or at least a couple of
sentences describing exactly what "high needs families" are?
Socio-economic status, educational level, history of drug dependency and/or
substance abuse, mentally challenged???
I'm intrigued with your mentioning of "at risk" youth. Have you
descriptors which make "at risk" and "high needs families"
in the same
category?
Have you read the several articles and at least one book written by Anthony
Pelligrini, Child Development Specialist at the University of Georgia?
Tony has quite a different view on labeling children "at risk."
Don't think I'm challenging your expertise...I only find, having lived
outside of the USA for 14 years, that I need a better definition of terms
in order to achieve clarity.
Case in point: This year I've worked closely with "at-risk"
African-American elementary school children, all of whom have their own tv
in their own bedroom.
At risk for illiteracy because of television overload?
They all attend a Title I school, thereby receiving a free breakfast, free
lunch, free after-school tutoring and snack, free field trips each 2 weeks,
free Saturday Academy in cooperation with the local university, etc. Some
persons, viewing the above, could categorize these students as
"overindulged" instead of at-risk.
I hope I'm communicating well enough to raise some issues about "at
risk"
students. It is important, I feel, to continually assess and re-assess
what we're doing for the poor, the needy, and the largely underchallenged
academically gifted students within that group.
Won't someone else chime in on this discussion so that we get various
points of view.
Dr. Gwendolyn Davis
International Literacy Specialist
At home in Durham, North Carolina
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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kate Pappas Rainier Beach Public Library <kpappas@spl.org>
Subject: practicums for glis students
Hi all, I'd just like to say that I thought my own practicum experience
at UW (Madison) was extremely useful.
Sure, the reference, cataloging, kiddy-lit, YA-lit, storytelling,
"library & society", and all were important, but the time I spent
in the downtown children's department of the Madison Public Library
and the time I spent at Edgewood Campus School gave me valued
experience in actually working with the public in a library setting
(and no, they didn't take away any paid positions--I was a "helper"
and not an "employee").
Even after all these years, I can still vividly recall the very first
time I was left alone to read to a group of third-graders. The teacher
lent me her "ding-dong-bell" which she used to request that the
children
be quiet. . .and then she went out of the room. . .and I didn't have a
handle on the class, but I did end up swinging the handle of that bell!
and she came running back into the room, clapped her hands ONCE. . .
and the class was silent as a model classroom could be!
>From that first experience, things improved, and I learned a lot about
how to do things and how not to do things!
Kate Pappas Seattle Public Library, Rainier Beach Branch
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:47:24 -0700
From: "Bridgett Johnson" <bridgett@lewis-carnegie-library.org>
Subject: Re: Summer Reading Purpose
I just had a mom stop me in the grocery store and say, " Thankyou,
you really triggered my daughter to read this summer with your
program." The girl shyly smiled at me too. It makes it all worth it!
Bridgett Johnson,Youth Services Librarian
Lewistown Public Library, 701 W. Main, Lewistown, Montana 59457
(406) 538 - 8559 bridgett@lewis-carnegie-lib.org
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 16:03:35 -0400
From: Regan DeFranza <defranza@northnet.org>
Subject: theme slogan needed
I am preparing an idea booklet and some bookmarks, posters, game sheets, etc.
for our member libraries for Children's Book Week. I am using homes and
houses as a topic. I can't think of a catchy theme slogan to use for this
idea. I need something like "at home with a book" but that dosen't
have the
punch I am looking for. If anyone has a slogan they have used for this theme
topic, or has come across one they would be willing to share, I would be very
appreciative.
Also if you have any ideas or suggestions for books, stories, crafts, games,
etc. on this theme I would love to hear about those too. I would be happy to
post some or all of what I can to the list if any one is interested.
Thanks...
- --
Regan DeFranza, Youth Services & General Consultant
North Country Library System
22072 County Route 190 P.O. Box 99 Watertown, NY 13601
phone: 315 782 5540 fax: 315 782 6883 email: defranza@northnet.org
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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 9:28:16 -0600
From: TECHSERVCLER@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org
Subject: RE: LARGE PRINT SOURCE
I know it might be a little cumbersome for the child to carry, but
the big books usually have large print in them, it might also help
so he'd be able to see the pictures.
Lisa Wilkes
Great Falls Public Library
Youth Services Library Assistant
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 98 12:23:29 +1000
From: nicky_lo_bianco@dpa.act.gov.au
Subject: Restructuring Children's Services
Our Public Library Service in Canberra, ACT, Australia is currently
under reviev. The aim being to give a new face to the service. At the
moment we have a children's coordinator position across 8 libraries
with specialist childrens librarians in each branch. This has worked
well and we deliver a very good service according to our community.
The central position coordinates selection and system wide programs.
However, with the total change of all library services childrens has
to try and fit into a new model.
Now selection will take place in the branches. This is good in that
the staff closest to the public will be choosing material. However the
management wants to get rid of specialist positions such as
"Childrens Librarians" and have staff work in functional teams. The
central position will remain in some form probably to do more active
programming in the branches. My reponsibility is to recommend a new
staff structure to management. However I haven't come across a model
similar to what they want to suggest. Any Australian Library we have
spoken to where there is an absence of specialist staff ie they just
rely on any one who might be interested - the quality of service
becomes uneven. Has anyone got any suggestions for new ways of
structuring services to children? I would be very grateful to hear
from you. - Nicky Lo Bianco
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:17:02 -0400
From: "Kayne L. Ferrier" <kferrier@grapids.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: LARGE PRINT SOURCE
Chivers is the best and least expensive source. There aren't many
around that do Large Print for kids. Granted, some of Chivers
publications are British, but so what? I like to use them with
reluctant readers, too. They see the large print and don't get scared
off. :)
Kayne L. Ferrier
Grand Rapids Public Library
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:50:30 -0500
From: schachtc@lcm.macomb.lib.mi.us
Subject: ordering videos
Speak to me, oh wise ones - there must be a source which is essentially
a video equivelant of books-in-print (hopefully on the web/net), which
lets you know what's available, what you need to know to order it (such
as ISBN #'s) and who carries it. Thanks in advance for lifting the fog
of perplexity through which we have wandered for too long... The same
sort of source for books on tape would also be most welcomed.
Thankful indeed is
Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:04:01 -0500
From: Mary Soucie <mjsoucie@htls.lib.il.us>
Subject: Re: Success stories
Sarah,
Hi. While at my public library, I was able to increase participation in my
Summer Reading Program, which had been steadily decreasing, by revamping the
program into a game format and a contract format. Readers had more control
that way over how much they were going to read. I promoted through visiting
the schools. I knew that the one end of town generally participated less, so I
did heavy recruiting and PR on that side of town.
We partnered with a local early childhood program, for at-risk preschoolers,
when they got a literacy grant. The program was not as succesful as it could
and should have been if the coordinator would have listened to suggestions from
other people. I think the easiest way to identify at-risk kids is by working
in conjunction with the local school districts and other youth organizations.
Good luck with your presentations.
Mary J. Konieczka
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