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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:15:57 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #410
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:01:02 -0500
From: schachtc@lcm.macomb.lib.mi.us
Subject: Re: Pubyac debate on SRG's
An unidentified party recently commented here
"I've been very interested in this debate over minutes vs books
PU>counted and to me it's no contest. Count the books. That's what we're
PU>selling, after all, not minutes. "
Guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one; I'm not selling
numbers of books read; I'm selling reading and the love thereof. If a
5th grader wants to take 3 weeks to savor Watership Down or Amy's Eyes
I'm going to be every bit as pleased, maybe more so, than if s/he reads
1 Hardy Boys, 2 Fear Streets and a couple of Animorphs in the same
period of time. Though I did not always think thus, I am now a happy
believer in the time approach, and repent the misspent summers earlier
in my career when this better way had not yet been shown to me.
Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 98 16:25:26 PDT
From: Linda Conroy <lpconroy@panama.phoenix.net>
Subject: Re: Need some ideas for read alouds to 5/6 gr.
A suggestion for a book to read aloud to 5th graders is _The Mixed Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler_ by E.L. Konigsburg. I vividly remember this book
being read to our 5th grade class by Mrs. Hinckley.
Linda Conroy
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Linda & Paul Conroy
lpconroy@panama.phoenix.net
Panama -- mangoes, papayas and bananas, oh my! --
they all grow in our backyard.
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:26:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: sandy smith <smithsa@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Re: YA collection development
In our library, YA nonfiction is shelved with the adult nonfiction. A red
dot is put on the spine to denote the difference. The YA fiction
collection is shelved by itself in the YA section. Hope this helps.
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Sharon Lavine wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to pick all of your intelligent brains for this. The library
> director and I are trying to write a young adult collection development
> policy. This is a small suburban library, population about 11,000,
> collection about 50,000. The public schools up to 8th grade are across the
street, but the high school
> students go to school in the next suburb near that suburb's library.
> Therefore, we don't see too many high school students.
>
> At this time, we have a YA fiction collection only, mostly geared for
> junior high and early high school. Nonfiction is put in Adult or Juvenile
> sections. The music cassettes we own are mostly for young children (no
> CD's). The adult dept. has CD's but doesn't want to buy popular/rock
> music for fear of theft. (CD's are not in locked cases). Our video
> collection is divided into adult and children's and some of those teenage
> type movies are left out.
>
> My questions:
> What do other small libraries do about YA nonfiction?
> What do other small libraries do about pop/rock CD's? What dept. are they
> in, use security or not, any complaints about lyrics?
> Where do you put the movies that young teens like?
>
> Respond to me directly.
>
> TIA Sharon Levine
> Head of Youth Services
> Lincolnwood Public Library (IL)
> slevine@nslsilus.org
>
>
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