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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:51:01 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #465
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:47:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: charla hamby small <csmall@web.aacpl.lib.md.us>
Subject: stumper--halloween picture book
I have a patron who is looking for a picture book she read during
the 60s or 70s about a boy who went trick or treating on the wrong day.
She remembers that there was a picture of the boy on the cover and that
his name was in the title. Does this ring a bell?
Charla Hamby Small csmall@web.aacpl.lib.md.us
Provinces Branch
Anne Arundel County Public Library
2624 Annapolis Road
Severn, MD 21144
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:29:25 -0700
From: Catherine Morgan <CMorgan@ci.glendale.az.us>
Subject: Stumper
Patron is looking for pre-1975 chapter book about a man with a pet which was
possibly a dodo bird. Each chapter was a story unto itself similar to the Mrs.
Piggle Wiggle books. The two chapters she remembers most vividly are one in
which they make soda pop and whatever color the soda is the person drinking it
turns that color. Another chapter dealt with a popcorn machine that filled the
house with popcorn. Any suggestions? Please reply directly to me at cmorgan@ci.glendale.az.us.
Thanks.
Catherine Morgan
cmorgan@ci.glendale.az.us
Glendale Public Library
5959 W Brown
Glendale, AZ 85302
Phone: 602-930-3544
Fax: 602-842-4209
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 98 10:16:23 -0700
From: "Scott Blume" <sblume@cob.org>
Subject: robot stumper polled
Thanks to the collective brain which identified:
Andy Buckram's Tin Men (O.P.) by Carol Ryrie Brink
>>A juvenile novel published before 1976 in which a kid builds a robot.
>>The town gets flooded and the boy and the robot are stranded on high
>>ground. The robot is struck by lightening and comes to life>>
One of you will be rewared at random with an ILL request!
Scott Blume (360) 676-6864
Head, Children's Services FAX 676-7795
Bellingham (Washington) Public Library
sblume@cob.org
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:57:34 -0500 (EST)
From: CHI_TONYA@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US
Subject: Stumper: Looking for a series name
Hi! We have a patron looking for the name of a series that came out within
the last 20 years. It's about a boy who solves mysteries and uses a CB radio.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
If you have any suggestions, please e_mail me at:
chi_tonya@dayton.lib.oh.us
TIA!!!
Tonya Cross
Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library
Dayton, OH
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:52:46 +0-500
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:48:45 EDT
From: ACS20@aol.com
Subject: Job Posting
Pubyac-ers,
Please feel free to distribute this to interested parties or listservs.
Ann Sparanese
Head of Adult & Young Adult Services
Englewood Public Library
Englewood, NJ
ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY
Job Posting - Position available 11/98
Young Adult (YA) Librarian
Englewood Public Library is seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic YA librarian
for a public library serving a multi-cultural community of 30,000. The
professional selected will work with library patrons of all ages, especially
teenagers, as part of the reference team. Assignments are divided among after-
school reference duty and homework help, YA programming, and school visits.
This includes regular booktalking at local schools and maintaining
relationships with teachers; producing and distributing booklists throughout
the year; organizing book-related activities such as book discussion
groups/teen advisory group; and providing instruction in library technology.
The YA librarian is responsible for selection of all YA materials and for
maintaining the collection. The YA librarian reports to the Head of Adult and
Young Adult Services.
Job requires one evening per week and some Saturdays.
Experience, education and personal characteristics required:
1. MLS from an ALA accredited graduate library program.
2. Interest in and knowledge of YA literature and adolescent psychology.
3. Interest and affinity for the age group and an ability to interact
positively with them on a daily basis. Ability to work well with teens from a
variety of ethnic backgrounds.
4. Experience using Internet, online catalogs and databases, and software
applications such as MS Word and MS Publisher. Ability to teach computer
skills to teenagers and other library users.
5. Ability to work cooperatively as part of a team, and to initiate new
approaches and programs.
Knowledge of Spanish a plus.
The application of an imminent library school graduate, with YA course work,
will be accepted.
Salary: $36,170 (as of 1/1/99 salary will be $37,814.) Benefits include
vacation, family health insurance, pension plan. Union membership after six
months probation.
Resumes to:
Donald Jacobsen, Director
Englewood Public Library
31 Engle St.
Englewood, NJ 07631
Ph: 201-568-2215
Resumes may be faxed to: 201-568-6895
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:03:19 -0500
From: MARIEN@ALCON.ALC.ORG
Subject: Fingerplay resource
I would like to share two titles with fellow PUBYACer's that we find very
useful when we need fingerplays for programs.
The first is CREATIVE FINGERPLAYS AND ACTION RHYMES: AN INDEX AND GUIDE TO
THEIR USE by Jeff Defty (ISBN 0-89774-709-7) Oryx Press, 1992
This one has a nice index of fingerplays and fingerplay books and also tells
how to use fingerplays and how to compose them.
The second is THE NEAL-SCHUMAN INDEX TO FINGERPLAYS compiled by Kay
Cooper (ISBN 1-55570-149-3) Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1993
This one is fairly extensive, indexing over 1600 fingerplays.
Both are very handy to have around.
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Marie Noe (915) 676-6067
Librarian II Abilene Public Library
Abilene, TX
marie.noe@alcon.alc.org
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:59:35 -0400
From: "Lorie J. O'Donnell" <odonnell@borg.com>
Subject: School stumper answered
Thanks to all who helped with the child who wants to go to school but is
too little yet. Here are the suggested books:
I Need a Lunchbox by Caines
Peter's Long Walk by Kingman
I Want To Go To School, Too! by Lindgren (2 suggested this one)
Ramona the Pest and Beezus and Ramona by Cleary
I'm sure this will mak my patron very happy!
Thanks again.
Lorie
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Lorie J. O'Donnell
odonnell@borg.com
"All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind,
it is fashioned by the mind. " from The Pali Canon
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:20:16 EDT
From: Stellafay@aol.com
Subject: Job in Palm Springs area
Fellow PUBYACers:
Please accept the following posting for my library. Please do not reply to
me, instead reply to the contact in the posting. Thanks, Stella Baker.
LIBRARIAN $38,895-$48,493/yr.
Rancho Mirage Public Library, in the beautiful Palm Springs (CA) area, is
seeking a Librarian to participate in the reference and information services
function and to develop and implement a variety of programs and activities for
children including story hours, summer reading program and cooperative
programs with schools and teachers. The Library serves the communities of
Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells with an annual budget of $1.2 million and 15.7
circulations per capita.
Minimum qualifications: ALA accredited MLS/MLIS; some work experience in a
public library and with electronic information systems is highly desirable.
Apply directly: City of Rancho Mirage, Personnel Office, 69-825 Highway 111,
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, (760)324-4511. City application must be received by
5:00 pm Nov. 18, 1998. Resumes not accepted without City application form.
No faxes nor email sent or received in this recruitment. EOE.
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:06:45 -0500
From: Karen Stanley <kstanley@marlin.utmb.edu>
Subject: Stumper - panda coloring
Have a patron that's looking for a Chinese folktale that explains how
pandas got the black coloring around their eyes. Patron thinks the
title is something like, The Day the Pandas Cried. According to the
story each time the people would leave the pandas would cry and rub
their eyes. They were painting with black paint and the paint was
rubbed around the eye area. I've searched all the standard sources, so
I'm not asking anyone to do a search rather is this a book you still
have in your collection? Does anyone know if it could be the book,
Once There Were No Pandas: A Chinese Legend by Margaret Greaves?
I feel like it's a story I should know, but...
TIA,
Karen Stanley
Rosenberg Library
Galveston, TX
kstanley@marlin.utmb.edu
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:30:00 -0400
From: "Susan S. Smith" <ssmith@connect.bedlib.org>
Subject: Stumper Results
Stumper results---
1. Fiction at a 4th grade level that deals with the French & Indian War
the suggestions were: "Matlock Gun" by Walter Edmonds
"Flickers Feather" by Merritt Allen
"Calico Captive" by Elizabeth Speare
"I am Regina" by Sally Kuhn
"Hay-Foot, Straw-Foot" by Erick Berry
"Sign of the Beaver" by Elizabeth Speare
"Last of the Mohicans" by Cooper (ya)
"Pathfinder" by Cooper (ya)
"The Impossible Major Rogers" by Patricia Gauch
(bio)
Another suggestion was books by William O. Steele/titles unavailable.
2. Legend of the Sunflower ---- no success
Thanks to everyone again for their help!
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% Susan S. Smith %
% Children & Young Adult Services Librarian %
% Bedford Public Library %
% 1323 K Street %
% Bedford, IN 47421 %
% 812-279-4824 Voice 304 %
% 812-277-1145 Fax %
% ssmith@bedlib.org %
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:32:49 -0500
From: Paula Lopatic <paulal@alpha1.rpls.lib.il.us>
Subject: trunk = worm solved
Thanks to Linda Hanes for answering my stumper about the bit of elephant's
trunk that was left over at the time of creation and became a worm. The
story is "The Trunk" by Ted Hughes in TALES OF THE EARLY WORLD
(Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1991, c1988) Thanks, Linda!
Paula Lopatic
Vespasian Warner Public Library
Clinton, IL 61727
paulal@rpls.lib.il.us
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:04:07 EDT
From: PTomka@aol.com
Subject: Christian Fiction for YA's
Thanks to all who responeded. Here's the results-
A source for general info -
"Develpping Christian Fiction Collections for Children and Adults" by
Barbara
Walker, 1998, Neal Schuman.
A list of authors-
Dave Gustaveson
Patricia Rushford
Roger Elwood
Judy Baer
Gilbert Morris
Jeanette Oke
Lori Wick
Michael and Judith Pella
Janice Holt Giles
Catherine Marshall
Grace Livingston Hill
June Masters Bacher
Marjorie Holmes
Miriam Wells
Bea Carlton
T. Davis Bunn
Carrie Bender
Brock and Brodie Thoene
Arleta Richardson
Dave & Neta Jackson
Lois Leppard
Frank Perretti
Lurlene McDaniel
Bill Myers
Lee Roddy
Robin Jones Gunn- Siera Jensen Series and Christy Miller Series
Laura Peyton Roberts- Clearwater Crossing Series
Gene Edwards- Chronicle of the Door Series
Publishers & distributors of Christian Fiction
Christian Book Distributors (CBD) http://www.christianbook.com
or PO BOX 7000 Peabody, MA 01961-7000
Great Christian Books 1-800-775-5422
Perma bound for acclerated readers 1-800-637-6581
Tyndale Press 1-800-323-9400 ext. 289
Bethany House Publishers 1-612-829-2500 or cs@bethanyhouse.com
or 11300 Hampshire Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55438
Inspirational Book Distributors 1-888-IBD-READ
Reviews in-
VOYA (VOl 21 no.2 and no.3)
Christian Library Journal
541-479-5277
fax 541-479-5178
or nancyhclj@aol.com (Nancy Hesch - editor)
Really appreciate all the great info - Thanks again
Pam Tomka
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 16:09:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: Angela Christianson <achristi@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper
A friend of mine is looking for a series of books that she remember from
childhood. She thinks the title may be "One of a Kind of Family." It
is
Jewish Little House on the Prairie-ish set in New York's lower east
side. She remembers 4-5 titles being in the series. Ella is one of the
daughters names. We have looked at our OPAC, Worldcat and still haven't
found these titles.
Can anyone help us with this stumper??
Please reply directly to me at achristi@prairienet.org
Thanks,
Angela Christianson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:35:19 -0500
From: Don Wood <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: Academic Special Libraries Division, MLA, Adopts Filtering Resolution
The Montana Library Association, Academic Special Libraries Division,
unanimously adopted the following resolution on Internet filters:
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A Resolution on the Mandated Use of Internet Filters in Libraries
Whereas, in light of recent and controversial efforts by federal and state
entities to impose the mandated use of Internet filters on school and
public libraries, and
Whereas, libraries provide unfettered access to information in order to
maintain an informed citizenry in our democratic society, and
Whereas, objective evaluation of existing Internet filters reveals serious
and inherent flaws in such software which unintentionally block valid
sites while not blocking all sites which may prove potentially offensive to
someone, and
Whereas, prior restraint on access to information may be
unconstitutional, and
Whereas, librarians in public libraries do not serve a role as in loco
parentis and cannot judge what a parent may wish for his or her child,
and
Whereas, sweeping state or federal constraints circumvent the rights of
local citizens to exert local control
Therefore be it resolved that the ASLD supports the principle of free and
unrestricted access to information as a foundation of an informed
citizenry in a democratic society,
And be it further resolved that, the ASLD opposes broad mandates to
restrict access to the Internet through the exclusive use of Internet
filters.
And be it further resolved that the Montana Library Association does
not recommend the use of Internet filters and opposes attempts by the
federal or state governments to require such use. We believe that
decisions regarding use of Internet filters must remain at the local level.
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:33:43 -0400
From: Charlotte Lesser <clesser@Ci.Keene.NH.US>
Subject: BIB: Books like Redwall
OK, all you Redwall fans! Here's the complete list of titles sent to me
when I requested titles that you recommend when a kid has read all of
Redwall. I must admit that I was really looking for other fantasy books
that just feature animals, no humans at all. Most of the following,
although wonderful fantasy books, don't feature just animals. They are
however great books!
Enjoy! (and thanks to all who sent me suggestions!)
Adams, Richard Watership Down
Alexander, Lloyd Chronicles of Prydain (series)
Avi Poppy
Barron, TA Lost years of Merlin (series)
Bell, Clare Ratha's Creature (series)
Brooks, Terry Sword of Shannara
Buchwald, Emilie Gildaen
Corbett, W J Song of Pentecost
Dann, Colin Farthing Wood
Duane, Diane Book of Night with Moon
Grahame, Kenneth Wind in the Willows
Hawdon, Robin Rustle in the Grass
Jarrell, Randall Animal family
Jarvis, Robin Deptford Mice (series)
Kennedy, Richard Amy's eyes
Kurtz, Katherine Deryni (series)
Lang, Andrew Chronicles of Pantoufla
Leguin, Ursula Catwings (series)
Leguin, Ursula Wizard of Earthsea (series)
Lewis, CS Chronicles of Narnia (series)
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums
Moon, Sheila Knee deep in thunder
O'Brien, Robert Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH
Oppel, Kenneth Silverwing (series)
Phillips, Ann Oak King and the Ash Queen
Seidler, Tor Wainscott Weasel
Snyder, Zilpha Below the Root (series)
Tolkien, JRR The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings
Williams, Tad Tailchaser
Wrede, Patricia Dealing with Dragons (series)
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Charlotte Lesser
Head of Youth & Community Services
Keene Public Library
60 Winter Street
Keene NH 03431
(603) 352-0157
Fax: (603) 352-1101
email: clesser@ci.keene.nh.us
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