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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #420
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:07:10 PDT
From: "Rebecca Smith" <rsps@hotmail.com>
Subject: stumper -- poem
Does anyone know these lines
possibly from an easy reader at least 15 years old?
thanks we tried key word searching and did not find it.
"Goodnight mr. beetle
goodnight mr. fly
goodnight mrs. ladybug
the moon's in the sky"
Rebecca Smith
San Diego Public Lirary
San Carlos Branch
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:10:09 -0600
From: "justin cooley" <jkcooley@ll.net>
Subject: thanks on Tobey books!
WOW! Thanks to so many of you for the Tobey Heydon books by Rosamond du =
Jardin! Our patron is THRILLED! I continue to be impressed! :) =
Kathleen
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:25:20 -0700
From: "Lane, Kristin" <klane@lib.co.san-bernardino.ca.us>
Subject: Beatty Award Breakfast - California Library Association Conference
This has been cross-posted to several listservs.
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>
>Make your reservations now! Plan to attend the 10th Anniversary California
>Library Association John and Patricia Beatty Award Breakfast on Sunday,
>November 15, 1998, from 8:00 to 9:30 am held in Oakland, California, during
>this year's annual California Library Association Conference. This year's
>winner is Francisco Jiménez, a passionate speaker and wonderful writer. Dr.
>Jiménez will speak about the writing of the award-winner, The Circuit:
>Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child, published by the University of New
>Mexico Press. The Circuit is also the recipient of the 1998 Boston
>Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and a recipient of this year's America's
>Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature!
>
>Set in California's Central Coast and Central Valley, The Circuit chronicles
>the life of the author's migrant family as they follow the seasonal
>harvesting of crops. The twelve interlocking stories reflect the
>innocence and optimism of the young voice of the narrator. Although the
>book is set in the 1950s, it speaks to today's readers of timeless and
>timely issues. The stark facts and images tell of a difficult everyday life
>where uncertainty is the rule. Even while living quarters, friends,
>and schools can and do change overnight, the family bonds remain the one
>constant. Jiménez skillfully weaves pathos and humor to relate the story of
>his family which is, as he states in his Acknowledgments, "also the
story of
>the many migrant children of yesterday and today."
>
>While The Circuit will engage readers of all ages, Francisco Jiménez has
>written and edited books for adults, including Hispanics in America:
>An Anthology of Creative Literature; and he will have a picture book,
>La Mariposa, published this year. Dr. Jiménez presently lives in Santa
>Clara, California, and teaches at Santa Clara University.
>
>The 1998 Beatty Award was judged by a committee of five librarians appointed
>by the president of CLA and reflecting statewide representation. The Circuit
> was selected following careful consideration of all eligible books
published
>in 1997.
>
>The members of the 1998 Beatty Award Committee are:
>Carolyn Angus, Stone Center for Children's Books, Claremont, California;
>Chuck Ashton, Redwood City Public Library;
>Alan Bern, Committee Chair, Berkeley Public Library;
>Dorothy Yiu Chang, Asian Branch, Oakland Public Library;
>and Susan Erickson, San Bernardino County Library.
>
>CLA members and non-members can attend the Beatty Breakfast. Contact CLA for
>further details:
>
>CLA
>717 K Street, Suite 300
>Sacramento, CA 95814-3477
>Phone: (916) 447-8541
>Fax: (916) 447-8394
>Email: info@cla-net.org
>http://www.cla-net.org
>
>
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:41:28 EDT
From: ILefkowitz@aol.com
Subject: hispanic fiction
Hi all, I am hoping that your collective memories are functioning better than
mine right now. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, our mother daughter book
group will be reading a book either by a hispanic author or dealing with the
hispanic experience. The only catch is that right now I can't think of any
books that would fit the bill. The group is made up of girls in grades five
through eight. Any suggestions would be appreicated. I will gladly compile a
list of all responses. Thanks in advance!
Ilene Lefkowitz
YA Librarian
Englewood Library
ILefkowitz@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:25:17 -0700
From: Jean Hewlett <nbclsref@sonic.net>
Subject: Stumper - building a Roman arch
Hi, everyone--
Does anyone know of a source for information on the engineering formulas
used to construct a Roman arch?
A teacher (older kids) is looking for detailed information on building
Roman arches. She wants to have the kids construct models. She
especially wants to know A)What are the proportions or formulas needed
to determine the relationship between the height of the arch and the
width of its base? B)How does the size of the keystone vary depending on
the size of the arch? (Or does it vary at all?)
I have checked a number of books on ancient civilizations, medieval
history, civil engineering, architecture, etc. It seems reasonable that
Roman engineers had such formulas, and that some book somewhere must
have listed them, but I haven't been able to come up with anything. All
suggestions will be gratefully received--if I can't find anything, I'm
going to suggest that she have the students build several arches and see
if they can work out these formulas as part of their class project!
Please reply directly to me.
Thanks,
Jean Hewlett
North Bay Cooperative Library System
Santa Rosa, California
nbclsref@sonic.net
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Smith <lsmith@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Re: dick and jane books
Anyone interested in the history of the Dick and Jane series would enjoy
this book:
Growing up with Dick and Jane: Learning and living the American dream/ by
Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. Collins Publishers, San Francisco,
1996.
Lisa Smith
Lindenhurst, NY
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:38:23 -0500
From: Peggy Northcraft <mdu002@mail.connect.more.net>
Subject: Re: dick and jane books
Hello
If your patron went to parochial sschool, the characters were different.
They were David and Ann, but I think Spot and Puff crossed over. The baby
of the family ws called Baby, poor thing.
I wonder if the publishers of those old books would have copies to check or
information about them.
Since I went to the aforementioned parochial school, I don't knwo who would
have published the Dick and Jane readers.
Peggy
At 09:48 AM 8/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All
> We have a patron who was looking for the characters in their first
>grade readers, from the 1950's and 1960's. The two books they were
>wondering about were Dick and Jane. From memory our reference staff came
>up with Dick, Jane, Spot and Puff as characters. The second book was
>titles Jack and Janet, she thinks. Again from memory the characters are
>Jack, Janet and Tip the dog. Does anyone know of a resource that I could
>use to definitely name the characters or a collection of these books where
>we could find the information in order to give our patron an accurate
>answer? Thanks in advance for any information, I appreciate it. Any
>ideas can respond to the e-mail address below.
>Thanks,
>Theresa
>
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>St. Charles City-County Library District Voice: (314) 978-7926/272-4999
>Middendorf-Kredell Branch - Children's Desk Fax: (314) 978-7998
>2750 Highway K Email: mkchild@mail.win.org
>O'Fallon, MO 63366
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>
>
Margaret "Peggy" Northcraft
Children's Librarian
Hannibal Public Library
Hannibal MO
mdu002@mail.connect.more.net
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:31:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vanston <jvanston@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: STUMPER- wooden doll, tropical setting
I am trying to track down a book from someone's childhood.
It would probably be a picture book, from the 60's or more likely the
70's. The story takes place in a tropical setting on an island. A little
girl (may have been a native of the island, or she may have even been a
white settler) has a doll carved out of
dark wood. She loves the doll,
dresses it in seaweed and shells, feeds it sandcakes. But then a visitor
(a sea captain? her father?) brings her a doll. It is a much fancier doll.
It's arms and legs move, it has real golden hair and cloth clothes. But
when she tries to play with the doll as she does with her wooden doll, the
doll gets messed up and the girl ends up going back to the wooden doll.
Perhaps the word baby figures in the title, or is the doll's name.
The illustrations are remembered as simple and rounded, sort of in the
style of Frank Asch's Moonbear.
Does this ring any bells with anyone? I have searched through lists of
doll books, and I'm hoping someone might remember this book.
Thanks in advance!
Jen
jvanston@suffolk.lib.ny.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:18:29 -0700
From: Connie Edwards <connie@peachy.bcpl.lib.ut.us>
Subject: Bruce Coville's Unicorn Series
Does anyone know the order of the Unicorn Series written by Bruce
Coville? The second, we think, is Sarah's Unicorn. thanks, connie
connie@peachy.bcpl.lib.ut.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:10:48 PDT
From: "Tammy Daubner" <tlvdinoh@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re:Teen Read Week plans
To Jana and the rest of list:
We're promoting Teen Read Week with a desert island theme. I hoping to
replace the furniture in my YA area with beach chairs and palm trees
(artificial - I'm in Ohio!) Then we're going to ask teens to share with
us their ideas for desert island "must-reads" - on other words, if you
were going to be on a desert island for a week, what 5 things would you
want to have with you to read? We'll post their answers all around the
YA area for others to see. We'll give away a prizes to random
participants. For this first year, it will be fairly low-key and
focusing on FUN.
Tammy Daubner
Medina County District Library
Medina,OH 44256
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:36:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steven Browne <sbrowne@nslsilus.org>
Subject: Teen Web Picks
I am at the preliminary stage of creating a club for YAs to pick their
site of the month. My vision is of a group of kids, possibly nine or ten
of them, coming to the library one night a month to meet in our activity
room, and then looking at their pick. And then I can create a digest of
it for our YA homepage. This should give the kids a big imput as to
the content of our page.
I know I have seen something like this on the net before. I have a number
of questions that I would like to ask anyone who is doing this already.
Question one: what steps did you take to plan this?
Question two: how do you keep the enthusiasm up so they come over and
over again?
Queston three: what are your guidelines for their picks?
Queston four: what smart question did I forget to ask that you want to
answer?
So if you have done a program like this, please contact me.
Sincerely, Steven Browne
sbrowne@mppl.org
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:34:34 +0000
From: "Vicky Smith" <vjsmith@mcarthur.lib.me.us>
Subject: Re: status of ALA accreditation
> It is the end of SRC and time to clean up my various piles of paper. While
> cleaning I came across a PUBYAC posting from Dorothy Broderick back in
> Feb. about the UCA-Berkley debate we pubbers were involved in, on the
> decision to drop public lib. coarse work from the MLIS
> program.
> In Dorothy's posting she mentioned that at the ALA DC meeting in
> June " a resolution forbidding accreditation of programs that ignore
> [the] public sector library work"was to be voted(?) on.
>
> Well, I was just wondering what the outcome of that was. Any one with
> info can send it to me or post to the list if you feel you should{:-0
I, for one, would be very interested in the outcome of such a vote,
if indeed it was held. How 'bout a similar refusal to accredit
programs that don't have a certain minimum of children's services
courses? Judging from our discussion of last spring, it would seem
timely.
Vicky Smith
Children's Librarian
McArthur Public Library
Biddeford, ME 04005
(207)284-4181
vjsmith@mcarthur.lib.me.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:52:48 -0700
From: Diane_Tuccillo@ci.mesa.az.us
Subject: Re: pubyac V1 #418
For Teen Read Week, we are going to keep it simple this year. We just
didn't have much time to prepare for anything major with summer reading
ending and school starting (yes, school here started August 17th!). We are
going to put up the YALSA posters, provide bookmarks and booklists. We also
have quite a few movie passes left over from summer reading, so we are
thinking of doing a drawing. Whenever a teen checks out a book during that
week, they will get a slip to fill out at our Circ desk. Their name will go
into a drawing box for free movie passes, copies of review books we have
on hand, and other summer reading prizes that were never claimed. Next year
we hope to do even more! We start planning our fall programs late
winter/early spring and everything was planned by the time we got the
lowdown on Teen Read Week this year. I hope everyone out there is planning
to do something, no matter how small, to get the idea out in your
communities. For next year, we are already thinking about doing a program
for parents on teen reading in addition to programs for teens themselves.
Diane Tuccillo
Senior Librarian/YA Coordinator
Mesa Public Library, AZ
Diane_Tuccillo@ci.mesa.az.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:06:18 PDT
From: "carol exner" <crexner@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Groups in Summer Reading Programs
Dear Storylady and all PUBYACers,
At Durham County (NC) we have a pretty good turnout for two
reasons: first, our bookmobile goes regularly to the facility. That
way, if the day care or summer group wants to participate, we make it
easy for them by appearing on a regular basis. They don't have to worry
about transportation OR remembering which day they were supposed to
appear. The second reason, I think, is that the groups visited are
really committed to participating in these programs.
In a way, I suppose we are stacking our results: we go to the group
rather than the other way around; and those groups participating are
those who have said to us that they WANT the SRP at their facility and
are willing to keep records, etc. On the other hand, our efforts are
rewarded by visiting those who are highly motivated. Anyway, that's how
it seems from here. Hope it helps in some way.
Carol Exner
Children's Librarian, Parkwood Branch
Durham (NC) County Library
We are discouraged and looking for any
>suggestions for next year.
>
>With that background, hoping some of you could email me directly or
post how
>you handle groups in the summer, or if you "don't do" organized
group
things
>in summer. Any input would be helpful, suggestions, things you have
tried,
>what has been best received from groups, daycares.
>
>I am somewhat new to this listserv so if this topic has been covered I
>apologize. Thank you in advance for any and all responses!
>Tricia Semple
>Sioux City Public Library
>Storylady1@aol.com
>
>
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:50:54 -0500
From: cwitek@park-ridge.lib.il.us
Subject: Publishing Terms
This is in response to Amy Hogan's question about the terms
"unagented" and
"unsolicited". In reference to an author's manuscript they mean
manuscripts
that are sent to a publisher without being represented by an agent or
without being solicited. Some publishers require that manuscripts be
presented by an agent, not just the author, and some do not accept
"unsolicited manuscripts"--in other words don't send it unless they
ask for
it!
A web site with good info on children's literature and the children's
publishing world is the Children's Book Council web site
http:www.cbcbooks.org This site contains advice for children's writers,
info on children's literature and publishing houses, bibliographies galore,
the latest children's books hot off the press, and lots more. Check it out!
Charlene Witek
****Opinions Expressed Are My Own and Do Not Reflect Those of My
Employer****
Charlene Witek
Children's Services Librarian
Park Ridge Public Library
20 S. Prospect
Park Ridge, IL 60068
(847) 825-4527
Fax: (847) 825-0001
Email: cwitek@park-ridge.lib.il.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:05:13 -0700
From: Diane_Tuccillo@ci.mesa.az.us
Subject: ALAN Workshop
The best and most inspirational workshop I attend each year is the ALAN
Workshop. It is given by the Adolescent Literature Assembly of NCTE (hence,
ALAN) every November in conjunction with NCTE's annual convention. This
year, the ALAN Workshop is November 23 & 24--two full days jam packed with
information about teens and their literature. It will be held in Nashville,
TN. Each participant receives a canvas bag full of books donated by
publishers. Then, there are a variety of break-out sessions and roundtables
on such subjects as "Promoting Leisure Reading," Rescuing Readers: YA
Literature for At-Risk Kids," "Reading and Viewing Their Worlds: Film
for
YAs" and "Using YA Literature in ESL Classrooms." Participants
will also
hear from more than twenty popular YA authors in general session.
Even though this is a program taking place during a teacher convention, the
ALAN Workshop is open to anyone who works with teens and books. Teachers,
librarians, professors of adolescent literature, publishers, authors and
editors all belong to ALAN and come to the workshop. I cannot stress to you
how wonderful this workshop is, and any effort you make to attend will be
well worth it!
Membership in ALAN is $15./year and you get a subscription to The ALAN
Review. You don't need to be a member to attend the ALAN Workshop. For
information on the ALAN Workshop and membership, call 1-800-369-6283.
Diane Tuccillo
Senior Librarian/YA Coordinator
Mesa Public Library, AZ
Diane_Tuccillo@ci.mesa.az.us
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:18:41 PDT
From: "carol exner" <crexner@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: SRP Programming ideas for grades 4 and up
Dear Diane,
Last summer, the NC theme was "Get Cookin' With Books." For the
older kids, Parkwood did a booktalk with food: all the books were food
related and we offered cooking for simple, healthy snacks with eating
afterwards, of course. I did not repeat it this year and got booed
soundly. So it's going back on the list for next year.
This year, I did plays --- the first time I ever tried such a
thing. We had an opening and a closing play to introduce the SRP theme
and talk it up and then to celebrate the closing and award "medals."
They were about 10 - 15 minutes long (I wrote the script so it
wasn't going to be TOO long!!), then we had refreshments. At the
opener, we had our volunteers available for sign-ups. At the close,
"Princess Leia" was available for "photo ops."
This year, we also offered a poetry contest for older kids. The
organizer was a teen.
We have had teens offer workshops for other school-aged kids.
And of course, our teen volunteers run our branch's program. We
had 23 volunteers and give them a tie-dye party at the beginning of the
summer (they wear their shirts when working at the library) and an
ice-cream social at the end.
Hope that helps.
Carol Exner
Children's Librarian, Parkwood Branch
Durham (NC) County Library
>Hi Everyone:
>Our library is looking for Summer Reading programming activities/ideas
for
>older students, especially for grades 4 and up. If you've had any
great
>success with activities, classes, or workshops this past summer,
please
>let us know!
>
>Thanks for your help: you're a great group!
>
>Diane Cinami
>Head of Children's Services
>Waterford Public Library
>Waterford, CT
>steven_cinami@msn.com
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>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:06:16 -0400
From: peverada@bastion.portland.lib.me.us (Mary Peverada)
Subject: STUMPER - white faced simminy
Thanks to one and all for the many responses. The story in question was
"Master of All Masters" The info has been passed along to the other
library and hopefully the patron will soon have story in hand. I do
apologize for not answering the individual replies - but I have only been
able to receive mail for several days - NOTHING was going out. Again -
thank you.
Mary Peverada
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 14:28:42
From: ckindt@usa.net
Subject: stumper-doll named elizabeth
We have a customer looking for a book from the (mid?)70's about a girl who lives
with or is visiting her grandmother. Her grandma had a beautiful doll named
Elizabeth but it was lost. THe cat comes down with a lock of golden hair from
the attic, it turns out the doll was up there. Any ideas? We have checked the
standard print sources.
Thanks.
Clare Kindt
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:50:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Dunseth <dunsethl@pls.lib.ca.us>
Subject: intentional imperfection STUMPER
SEE BELOW
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Lisa Dunseth, Easton Branch Librarian
Burlingame Public Library (650) 343-1794
1800 Easton Drive Voice Mail (650) 342-1283 x171
Burlingame, CA 94010-4812 Fax (650) 343-1794
Email: dunsethl@pls.lib.ca.us
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http://www.pls.lib.ca.us/pls/bpl/services.html
opinions my own...
We are looking for stories that involve an artist making something and
deliberately incorporating an imperfection into the design. We have THE
MAGIC WEAVER OF RUGS by Jerrie Oughton and SONGS FROM THE LOOM by Monty
Roessel which are about Navajo rug weaving. Does anyone know of others?
We understand that there is a similar tradition in Japan related to the
making of teacups for a Japanese tea ceremony. Does anyone know about
this or any related stories?
We have checked STORYTELLERS SOURCEBOOK, our catalog and various
storytelling sites on the web.
Thanks for any help.
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:04:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kate Carter <katec@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
Subject: Re: Dear America series
In looking at the Scholastic web site to see if there was anything about
the Dear America tv show, I discovered that Animorphs will be a series on
Nickelodean starting Sept. 4. I didn't find anything about the Dear
America show, though. Where did you read about it?
I noticed that Scholastic is putting out a series for boys called 'My Name
is America' which is similar to the Dear America series. Has anyone seen
or purchased these books (I think there are 2 books so far)?
Kate Carter, Youth Librarian
Multnomah County Library (503)248-5235 (v)
801 SW 10th (503)248-8000 (f)
Portland, OR 97205 katec@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Diane Mayr wrote:
> I don't know about your library, but here in Windham, NH, the Dear
> America series are the hot books this summer. I just read that the
> series will appear on cable tv, HBO, this fall. Forewarned is
> forearmed!
>
> Diane Mayr
> Nesmith Library
> Windham, NH 03087
> (603)893-9892 dmayr@library.windham.nh.us
>
>
>
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