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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #464
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:30:16 -0400
From: Beth Gallaway <egallawa@concentric.net>
Subject: Homeschooling Resources
Correction! Apparently, I have the links wrong for the Haverhill Public
Library's Parent-Teacher Homepage, which highlights books in our
collection and included appropriate Internet links. Before you email me
to say it doesn't work, please try the following:
http://www.haverhill.com/library/pt/hlinks.htm for homeschooling
resources
http://www.haverhill.com/library/pt/plinks.htm for parent resources
http://www.haverhill.com/library/pt/tlinks.htm for teacher resources
Thanks...and once again, I apologize. I hadn't realized my reply went
out to the whole list.
Beth Gallaway
Haverhill Public Library
Haverhill MA
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:25:54 -0400
From: Beth Gallaway <egallawa@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Teen Read Week
Dear Janet:
Its Teen Read Week, Oct 19th-26th. *s* Its the brainchild of YALSA.
This is its first year. Check out the press releases on the American
Library Homepage, which you should get familiar with *s*
http://www.ala.org
Beth Gallaway
Haverhill Public Library
Haverhill MA
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:35:26 -0700
From: "Carrie Eldridge" <celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us>
Subject: Halloween craft and story ideas
Anyone out there like to share story craft ideas for Halloween.
We are making haunted houses -decorated with ghosts, wtiches and such.
Carrie Eldridge
San Juan Island Library District
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:06:07 -0400
From: Mary Matuszewski <marym@mail.bulloch.public.lib.ga.us>
Subject: RE: pubyac V1 #462
Hello,
I would like to thank all of you who gave me suggestions on what to do
for an assembly of 150 4-7th graders. I thought you might be interested
in the suggestions.
Booktalks, ghost stories, interactive stories, humorous stories or
parodies, funny poetry, skit puppet show, tandem telling, magic tricks,
or a goofy song holler-along were all suggested. It was suggested that
traditional storytelling would work better than reading, props (the
odder the better) would be a good idea, staying away from that which
seems overly "babyish," and checking on what kind of sound system I
had
would be a good idea.
Specific titles and authors suggested:
Watson's go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (chapter on getting
tongue stuck to car mirror)
"Those Three Wishes" in Read for the Fun of it by Caroline Feller
Bauer
Johnny Kaw - The Pioneer Spirit of Kansas by Jerri Garretson
Robert Munsch books
Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World by George Shannon
Sound and Action Stories by Jerry Mallett
Crazy Gibberish by Naomi Baltuck (I'm going to do a story from this
book)
Thanks again for all the help!
Mary Matuszewski
Statesboro Regional Library
912-764-1344
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:02:38 -0500
From: "Mary Schmidt" <mschmidt@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Globes
Dear Pubyacers,
My director has informed me that a patron wishes to make a substantial
donation to the library for the purchase of a globe. The patron is
interested in a floor standing globe and willing to contribute a
significant amount of money. Anyone have any suggestions/sources. Please
respond directly. TIA!
Mary Schmidt
West Babylon Public Library
West Babylon, New York
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elaine Williams <williael@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Grandparent fingerplay
Dear fellow Yakkers,
I need one more grandparent-related fingergame for a toddler
storytime. I already have HERE ARE GRANDMA'S GLASSES, MY GRANDMA IS
COMING TO VISIT, and RIDE AWAY, RIDE AWAY, BABY SHALL RIDE. I have
already checked 1001 RHYMES AND FINGERPLAYS by Totline, LITERATE
BEGINNINGS, TODDLERS TOGETHER, MORE TODDLERS TOGETHER, and STORYTIMES FOR
TWO-YEAR-OLDS. Thank you for any help you can provide! Please reply
directly to me at <williael@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Elaine Williams, Youth Librarian
Lynchburg Branch Library
Lynchburg, OH
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:56:27 -0800
From: cmediavi@ucla.edu (Cindy Mediavilla)
Subject: King Arthur book
Thanks to all who responded to my query re: indexing the YA readers'
advisory tool on Arthurian fiction. The overwhelming response was that,
yes, indeed I should index the book by character names and themes. Be
looking for the book, which is now tentatively titled _Arthurian Fiction:
an Annotated Bibliography_, to be published by Scarecrow Press some time
next year.
Cindy Mediavilla
cmediavi@ucla.edu
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 07:07:44 -0400
From: Diane Mayr <bratcat@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Strollers in the Library
jvandcar@park-ridge.lib.il.us wrote:
> I wonder what other odd, anti customer service rules people have seen(at
> other libraries and not our own I hope), it would be fun to hear about
them.
>
This is not a rule, but I have hard time with all the libraries that have their
children's rooms in the "basement." Forget about strollers, parents
have to
negotiate stairs with babies, toddlers and books! This seems to be common in
old libraries in NH, what about in the rest of the country? By the way, I'm
fortunate not to have the problem in my library!
Diane Mayr
Nesmith Library
Windham, NH
dmayr@library.windham.nh.us
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:48:04 -0500
From: "Mary K. Chelton" <mchelton@pop.erols.com>
Subject: YA program ideas
Andrea wrote:
>My library has always centered many of it's programs for younger
children. I would like to start programs for the young adults. I'm at
a lost as to where to start. What activities are there to do for that
group that always gets forgotten.<
The two books, EXCELLENCE IN YOUNG ADULT SERVICES books published by ALA
have some wonderful ideas in them. Also, I suggest that you ask the kids
what they'd like. This group votes with their feet and won't come to
programs thought up FOR them for very long.
Mary K.
Mary K. Chelton
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Studies
Queens College
254 Rosenthal Library
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
Voice: (718) 997-3667
Fax: (718) 997-3797
Home: 35 Mercury Ave.
East Patchogue, NY 11772
Voice: (516) 286-4255
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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:01:10 -0500
From: Adelaide Rowe <arowe@egvpl.org>
Subject: Re: sort of weird,sad,humorous(black) story- it is Sunday after all
We have a pair of sisters who are in their 50s who frequent our
department. They are low IQ, but do read. They come in all the time for
books. Their general mo is to ask us for a good book, we show them one,
they say yeah, we think they are heading for the circ desk, we sigh, and
somewhere on the way there (which is a straight shot btw), they change
their minds, and the process goes on and on. One of their other ploys is
to find a book, and say do you have anything else by this author? We say
yes, but wouldn't you like to read this one first, and then take out the
others.They can only take one book out a time, they can't be paperback
(they ripped one once), and one sister cannot read too small print.
Anyway, so the point of today's little anecdote (wish we had an
antidote), was that one of them picked out The Diary of Anne Frank, and
the inevitable question was.....I know, it is black humor. Sorry, am not
insensitive really, but for a Sunday, and working, thought it was mildly
ironic.
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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:50:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rosalie Olds <rolds@kcls.org>
Subject: access policy for minors
Hi, Everyone,
I just subscribed to this listserv and I have a question for all of you
out there. I work as a library assistant in the King County Library
System so if you get this message and you are part of that system I do not
need a response. I also currently attend the University of Washington
School of Library and Information Science. For my class on intellectual
freedom I am doing a presentation on the how right to intellectual freedom
for children and young adults is provided for in public libraries. What I
am interested in is a sample of library policy regarding children's and
young adult's use of the library throught the United States. For example,
I am aware that in some systems children can not check out videos with
their cards or check out adult books without their parent's permission.
What are some of your policies out there?
Thank You,
Rosalie Olds
King County Library System and U of W School of Library and Information
Science
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:54:38 -0500 (EST)
From: William Goehrig Orr <worr@iupui.edu>
Subject: Noisy Stamps
Dear PUBYACers:
For our 1999 preschool SRP, we would like to use noise-making stamps, as
we have done in the past. For example, a horse stamp would make the sound
of a horse as the preschooler presses the stamp on a piece of paper.
We are having trouble locating a company that still produces these
battery-operated stamps. If anyone on PUBYAC knows of a company that
*currently* makes/sells noise-making stamps, could you please let me know
the name, phone number, and address of the company? Please respond
directly to me via email at work or school, as listed below. TIA
W. Goehrig Orr
Library Assistant, Children's Department
Carmel Clay Public Library
gorr@carmel.lib.in.us
worr@iupui.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:14:25 PDT
From: "laura kelley" <kelley_laura@hotmail.com>
Subject: Cowboys
I was planning a story time about cowboys and found lots of books, but I
need finger plays, flannel boards, etc. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Laura Kelley MLIS
Children's Librarian
Cleveland Public Library
Eastman Branch
kelley_laura@hotmail.com
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:08:34 -0600
From: "Cathy Morton" <cmorton@weberpl.lib.ut.us>
Subject: Re: Funniest stories bib
That is really cute! At the Joe Scruggs "concert" he did several fun
renditions of Old MacDonald and I think they're on one of his tapes. I'll track
it down and maybe we could do a storytime on "Variations on the theme of
Old MacDonald."
How do I subscribe to this listserv? Or do you just check the site? I have the
feeling you may have told me already but I've lost it and forgotten.
It was fun at dinner last night--I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Have a nice
Games Night--I don't know if I'll be able to go to the movie either because Amy
redid her yard and wants us to go to Salt Lake to see it so I may be tied up. If
we go in the evening I could probably make it, but I don't want to spoil
anybody's plans.
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:13:03 +0000
From: "Nancy Magi" <Nmagi@acpl.lib.in.us>
Subject: Parent's Choice Awards
Does anyone know what has happened to the Parents' Choice Awards,
and the Parents' Choice Foundation. Their quarterly paper is no
longer being published and the website is not running. From what we
have "heard" is that a different group did the awards last year, but
the founder decided to do them again this year. Does anyone know
any of the details about this? Are the awards still being given?
If so, who is doing it?
Nancy Magi
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our
children. One of these is roots, the other wings.--Hodding Carter
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Branch Youth Services Coordinator
Allen County Public Library
900 Webster St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
nmagi@acpl.lib.in.us
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:38:32 -0500
From: schachtc@lcm.macomb.lib.mi.us
Subject: In search of Ruth Orbach
Oh cerebrally enhanced ones - does anyone know A. If the author Ruth
Orbach (Applepigs etc.) is still this side of Jordan and if so B. where
one might contact her successfully? Please respond to me privately.
Thanks in advance -
Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.
schachtc@LCM.macomb.lib.mi.us
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:40:01 -0500
From: Wendy Pavelko <WPavelko@spl.lib.ar.us>
Subject: call for help
Hello to all the PUBYACer's out there!
I need help, I have never written before, but I am sure that the
response will be very helpful. The board is pushing for more and more
programs for school aged children, around 8-12/13 of age. I have been
at the job and in the area only a little over a month, and I feel I
don't know our patrons or the community morals and "feelings" so, does
anyone have any sure fire hits out there? Ones that will attract and
excite the kids, I am desperate. You can respond directly or over the
list, Thanks very much.
Wendy Pavelko
Children's Services Coordinator
Springdale Public Library
wpavelko@spl.lib.ar.us
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:05:08 -0600
From: "justin cooley" <jkcooley@ll.net>
Subject: homeschooling info
We offer homeschooling programming at our library. Once a month, I do =
two "groups"... those 5-9 and those 9 and older. This month was the =
first time for me to do so... it went really well overall. I just went =
through Chase's and picked something for the month... this month we =
celebrated "National Chicken Month"... younger group - "chicken
books" =
and we did a related craft activity. Older group I read a chicken =
folktale and we did experiments with eggs. With the older group, we =
also discussed books with chickens/eggs in the stories and how they were =
portrayed... as strong characters (Little Red Hen for example) or as =
weak (Chicken Little, for example) or as "magical" (as in Jack and the
=
Beanstalk, for example), etc. =20
I'm looking forward to our upcoming programs each month! Kathleen Ahern
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 20:08:19 -0400
From: mellifur@tiac.net
Subject: Mysteries for YA's
I would like to put together a mysteries booklist for our soon-to-be-opened
YA area. We keep going to the same authors again and again, and several of
them (Hildick, Kehret, W. D. Roberts) are only or primarily represented in
our J department. I know that many of you have probably already put
together such a resource. If you have a suggestion that you know your teens
love, or if you've got a booklist on the web (I'm sure many of you do, but
my quick check didn't find them), I would welcome your suggestions or URL's.
Thank you!
Miriam Neiman
M. Neiman
mellifur@tiac.net
Welles-Turner Memorial Library
Glastonbury, CT
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my organization.
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:12:08 -0400
From: Jana Fine <janafine01@sprynet.com>
Subject: Teen Read Week activities - another set!
Here are some more updates on doings for Teen Read Week
Jana Fine
YALSA is planning to put your posting on a web page within the YALSA
site. If any of you have concerns about being posted there, please let
me or Linda Braun, webmaster, know. Her address is lbraun@leonline.com
1. At the Laramie County Library in Cheyenne, Wyoming we are celebrating
Teen Read Week by having three events including a Poetry Slam, a
Medieval Murder Mystery Night (after the library closes on Friday night)
and a pair of storytellers. We are also doing a bookmark contest on the
"Read For the Fun of It" theme and will pass our top three entries on
to
the national contest sponsored by YALSA and sponsoring a brain teaser
contest. We are promoting the Poetry Slam and the bookmark contest
through the schools and are offering cash prizes for the winners. I
have drummed up some sponsors, of course, to cover the costs.
Amelia Shelley
ashelley@larm.lib.wy.us
Manager, Children's/Young Adult Services
Laramie County Library Sytem
Cheyenne, WY
2. And the Seattle Public Library's Teen Read
Week celebration plans are coming along beautifully - we have a memo
on the Mayor's desk regarding a citywide proclamation and are anxiously
awaiting word (should not be a problem, according to most). Also, we
are going to be featuring many special programs at branches throughout
the system, we will be doing heavy school visiting and we are working
in cooperation with the Seattle Public Schools to get some of our YA
Librarians out to schools on Oct. 22 to participate in the school
system's "Read Aloud Day." In addition, a contingent of homeless teen
writers with whom one of our YA people worked this past year will be
doing a special reading at Northwest Bookfest (which takes place on
Sat. Oct. 24 and Sunday Oct. 25). And, all throughout October, the
YA Services Division is involved in a library card sign-up campaign
called "Get Carded!"
Jeff Katz
3. Here in the Minneapolis Public Library system, we are celebrating
TRW with two "Open Mike" events for teens on Oct. 19, and on Oct. 20,
with a local community member as host, Ms. Jewelean Jackson. The
evening will also include refreshments, pens/pencils and bookmarks as
give-aways, and 'plugs' for some great reads and upcoming teen advisory
group, which is "in process".
Additionally, all branch librarians are encouraged to put out some
display of YA books, TRW posters and bookmarks as part of that package.
This year is just a beginning, I hope...
Cathy Hoffman
Young Adult Specialist
4. To add to the things being done for Teen Read Week. I am the head of
the Oxon Hill Branch Young Adult Dept. of the Prince Georges' County
Memorial Library System, and we are going to: Letters went out to
booktalk to classes ; We will give out the Teen Read bookmarks to
classes
and to any teen needing assistance in the branch; We are also adapting a
program I saw online - Yalsa. Instead of "Stinefest", we (along with
the Children's Dept.) are doing "Stinefeast" for children ages 10 -
14.
Mainly booktalks about other books Besides Stine's; "If You Like Fear
Street & Goosebumps You Will Love To Hear About..." The program will
also include Mummy wrapping, candy worms and other disgusting things you
can eat.
It should be fun. We are not promoting this for Holloween, but some may
think so, since Teen Read Week comes in October.
Faye Powell
5. I'm planning an open mike poetry reading night for teens, 7-12
grades, for
Tuesday Oct. 20, as part of our celebration of Teen Read Week.
Teens will be welcome to read their own poetry, or a favorite selection
from works of other poets. We plan to have refreshments (this will be
held in a community room in the library but not part of the library
itself).
Larry Condit
Teen Services
Los Altos Public Library
(part of the Santa Clara County Library System)
lcondit@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us
http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/teen
(new web page address; reviews by teens who participated in our Summer
Reading Program have begun to appear!)
6. Here is what I am doing for Teen Read Week:
Teens will be eligible to win a $15 gift certificate by reviewing a book
magazine article, or comic book they have read for the fun of it! I
will be sending teachers information about the contest I am having and
the contest ALA is having.
That week I am also having a scary movie festival. I have booked three
movies that I will show on different nights through the week. The
children's dept. is also showing two children's scary movies on Sat.
afternoon. Our library system has a popcorn popper that I have booked
for that week.
I am also having Chris Woodyard at the library. She is the author of
the Haunted Ohio series. She writes books of Ohio ghost stories, and
we will have a night of "ghostly storytelling."
That Sunday is also the library's 16th anniversay. We are having a day
filled with different events. We are having a jazz trio, a steel drums
musical group, refreshments, face-painting, Arthur, a bubble-maker, etc.
It will be a big event for us since we will be celebrating the
completion
of the branch's renovation and our 16th anniversary.
Mina Gallo
Beachwood Branch
Cuyahoga County Public library
7. The Library Network, Michigan's largest cooperative, is celebrating
Teen Read Week with a top ten contest. Teens are encouraged to make up
their own Teen Reading Top Ten and be as creative as possible. The
grand prize is a $50 gift certificate from Barnes and Noble. In
addition, we are using the Tips for Teens and the Reading Recipe, which
we are sending to secondary schools throughout the cooperative, and
asking them to do a story in the school newspaper about Teen Read Week.
We have included a selected reading list. We are also working with the
Detroit News, which has a teen page called "Next" to get some coverage
in the paper for Teen Read Week. Lastly, we have received a signed
poster from Seth Green, who plays Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a
quote from him that we are using to promote this event.
8. To celebrate and promote young adult lit (and other books teens love
to read), I have a display in our library lobby. I am also running a
contest (match book titles to catchy descriptions or quotations) in
which movie passes are prizes.
A humorous anecdote regarding the TRW bookmark: Last night, at my
monthly open mike poetry night for teens, a regular attendee announced
that since she didn't bring any new material, she'd read "this
bookmark." She proceeded to read the WHOLE bookmark as a very lively
hip-hop poem--the TRW dates, the credits, and the web address included.
Needless to say, her enthusiasm and style brought down the house. Teens
were cheering! And what a great ad for TRW!!
Jennifer Bueche jbueche@nslsilus.org
Librarian, Children's and Youth Services Dept.
Gail Borden Public Library
200 N. Grove Ave. Phone: (847) 742-2411
Elgin, IL 60120 Fax: (847) 742-0485
9.This is what we are doing at San Francisco Public Library:
Teen Advisory Council members are meeting with branch teen librarians
to create displays.
Gary Soto will make an author appearance, sponsored by our Middle
School Outreach Program
Our Bayview Library is sponsoring writers from "The Beat Within",
which is a weekly newsletter of writing and drawings put out from Youth
Guidance Center, or Juvenile Hall (incarcerated youth under 18)
At the Main Library, we will have a Teen Comic Art Fest, an
all-afternoon event with syndicated comic artists, slide shows,
opportunities to have one's own work evaluated, opportunities to do
mural-painting.
Susan Harloe
Teen Services Specialist
San Francisco Public Library
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