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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:05:26 -0500 (EST)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #489
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:08:09 EST
From: SKS6HPS7@aol.com
Subject: Re: book buddies
We have a similar program that we call Reading Buddies. : )
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 21:57:34 PST
From: "annie leon" <annie_leon@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Internet Child Abuse
As a professional librarian, it is not your job to provide a free
babysitting service. It is also a questionable liability issue to be put
in the position repeatedly. You can kindly instruct the children on good
library behavior. If they do not follow it, then their parents need to
make other arrangements--the kids are not at fault, they are just being
kids. The best child will get bored, tired, etc, and start acting up. It
is the parent who should bear the responsibility of parenting, not
you.Don't be the "meany"--just make the parent come downstairs and get
their kids!--with a kindly smile on your face, of course.:)
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 21:44:40 PST
From: "annie leon" <annie_leon@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Internet Child Abuse
The watchword is "unattended" child. If the child is not being
attended
to--is being ignored--, even if the parent is nearby on the teminal,
they are in violation of any "no unattended children" policy you may
have.
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 98 09:09:20 -0500
From: Lynn Linton <llinton@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us>
Subject: One more about unattended children---ATTN: DAVID FOX
- -- [ From: Lynn Linton * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
David Fox requested a copy of our policy for unattended children but I
haven't been able to get the fax to go through and I deleted his e-mail so I
don't know where to send it. I've had many requests for it, so I'm going to
post it to the whole list...thanks.
We give this to all new patrons with children (and to anyone who violates
the policy)...
(It starts with a couple of paragraphs about the library being a busy public
building with busy staff members who can not supervise young children...)
"To insure that children have a pleasant, safe experience at the library,
parents and/or caregivers are asked to observe the following rules:
Rules
1. Children under age 6 should be in the immediate presence of a parent or
other responsible caretaker over age 12 at all times while on library
property.
2. Children age 6 to 9 should have a parent or other responsible caregiver
over age 12 within the library building at all times.
3. Arrangements should be made to pick up all children under age 16 before
library closing time. If a child is not picked up by closing time, the
libararian in charge and the security guard will remain with the child. The
librarian in charge will attempt to contact a parent or other responsible
caregiver. If contact can not be made within thirty minutes after closing
time, or if contact has been made but a parent or adult caregiver has not
picked up the child within thirty minutes after closing time, the librarian
will contact the Statesville Police Department and will place the child in
custody of the police.
4. Children under age 16 are subject to all library rules and regulations.
Parents or guardians are responsible for the conduct of their minor children
while on library property, regardless of whether or not they accompany the
child to the library.
5. An incident report will be filed for each violation of these rules.
Repeated volations of these rules may result in the suspension of library
privileges.
6. Parents and other responsible parties should be aware of North Carolina
General Statute 14-3161.1 "Contributing to delinquency and neglect by
parents and others."
(the statute is on the back of the brochure)
Lynn Linton
Iredell County Public Library Statesville, NC llinton@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:10:28 EST
From: Naughyde@aol.com
Subject: Library card program
I've been getting lots of emails from folks asking about the Houston Public
Library's program to get every child a library card. If you visit the newly
redesigned Power Card Page (http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/powercard) you'll find
links to a press release with a nice overview of the program to date. The page
also links to many of the other pages/products we have created to support
this program, such as a rap song written by a staff member, a page listing the
outreach we have been doing to support this program (which then has links to
pages about many individual outreach events), a PSA cut by the mayor, plus
lots of other links.
For those of you interested in "how" we did it, you might want to
download the
Power Card Power Point available from this site.
Patrick Jones
Connecting Young Adults and Libraries
http://members.aol.com/naughyde/connecting
Whats So Scary About R.L. Stine
http://members.aol.com/naughyde/rlstine.htm
(PS: in re the core YA collection, check out my core collection list from the
Connecting Young Adults and Libraries web site)
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:17:54 -0600
From: Jeanette Larson <jlarson@tsl.state.tx.us>
Subject: Serials in the Newspaper
The Austin American Statesman has serialized several books or excerpted
parts of books. These have included an original story by Jack Gantos
(THE KISS OF DEATH or THE FOUR MISS KITTIES), a mystery by Angela Shelf
Medearis, and starting next Monday, MY LOUISIANA SKY by Kimberly Willis
Holt. Very few kids read the daily newspaper so this is one way to
increase readership and hopefully build an audience for the newspaper.
When they ran Jack Gantos' story (which is a riot and is coming out as a
book next year, I believe), circulation went up significantly (it ran
for three weeks) and requests for class copies increased. It's true
that many kids who have access to the daily newspaper also have access
to books--that doesn't mean that they are reading them, however. The
serials also introduce them to new authors and new titles and brings
reading into the home.
Jeanette Larson
Texas State Library
Austin, TX
jlarson@tsl.state.tx.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:24:58 -0500
From: schachtc@lcm.macomb.lib.mi.us
Subject: Re: historical fiction
PU>Anne Paradise says
PU>"Librarian (like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car
PU>Salesman) is
PU>one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed
PU>personality."
Yet another assumption very often based in fact, especially for the good
ones. But don't we have an awful lot more fun sambaing to the rhythm of
our own saxaphone players than than all those "properly formed" cookie
cutter people whose main goal in life seems to be meeting other folks'
expectations/not sticking out?
Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:53:24 -0500
From: Jennifer Nolte <jnolte@netra.clc.lib.oh.us>
Subject: RE: Cookie decorating
We got free cookies from the grocery. Buy canned icing (we had colored) =
and sprinkles. Our program was around Valentine's Day and that worked =
really well. We did not bake anything; it was easy! Kids had a great =
time.
Jennifer Nolte
Youth Services Manager
Grandview Heights Public Library
Columbus, OH=20
jnolte@clc.lib.oh.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:16:32 -0500
From: LEVERNEM@spart.spt.lib.sc.us
Subject: RE: teens and security problems
We did a problem with teens during the summer. Our problem was that we're too
sentive to our feeling and they tried to take advantage. Where do we as public
libraries draw the line.
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Leverne McBeth, Branch Assistant
Tri-Pacolet Branch
390 W. Main St. (864) 474-0421
Pacolet, SC 29372 Levernem@spart.spt.lib.sc.us
"Any opinions expressed are those of the individual
and may not reflect the opinions or policies of the Spartanburg
County Public Library."
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:09:52 -0600
From: Marilyn Zaruba <fmpl@startext.net>
Subject: Juvenile & YA series
Our library is finally getting a decent book budget so we want to flesh out
our juvenile & YA fiction. One thing we have noticed is that the kids seem
to enjoy series books and the anticipation of watching for the next one.
What I would like from the listserv is names of series that your young
patrons enjoy reading.
You are always so great to help & I'm looking forward to some new
suggestions. It was only through this list that we learned about the Dear
America series & we had to order a second set because the girls can't read
them fast enough.
TIA.
Marilyn Zaruba
Mansfield Public Library
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 10:00:07 -0800
From: Edmonds Library Reference Dept <edmref@sno-isle.org>
Subject: Teens and disruptive/security Problems
I strongly agree with Marge Tassione on this issue. Every age group
includes individuals that cause some problems. The latest high profile
disruptive problem in our library is adults with cell phones. Unattended
children
who run around, pound on the terminals or swing on the security system
are
a much more prevelant problem than teens. I think if we did an unbiased
survey of the lose/theft of library materials in public libraries we
would
find that all age groups are involved, and that the "big expensive"
items,
such as reference books, tend to be taken by adults.
Every library has a few teens who cause problems, but these often
get an inordinate amount of attention. As a percentage of total
teen users I believe this number is relatively small. We hear a great
deal of concern about teen use of the Internet, but the bulk of people
I have seen viewing "questionable" sites are adult males.
I have to conclude that adult attitudes and stereotypes regarding
teenagers contribute to many librarians view about the extent of this
problem.
Tom Reynolds
A/YA Librarian
Edmonds Library
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:20:12 -0700
From: "Bridgett Johnson" <bridgett@lewis-carnegie-library.org>
Subject: Re: Beginning reader series
Recently I asked a similar question and was directed to a company
called Wright group.1-800-523-2371 Their materials are very good and
we ordered several sets of stories for emergent readers, they are
very popular. Although different than Moncures, they fill that same
sort of void. It would be interesting to hear comments from reading
teachers/researchers about the method that the Moncure books use, is
it really effective for beginning readers? I think they leave alot
to be desired in helping early readers but at the time they filled in
a big void. Please share your responses with all of us. Good Luck.
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: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:47:02 -0700
From: Amy Shelley <AShelley@larm.lib.wy.us>
Subject: Re: Help needed--Networkable children's software
Thank you for your assistance. We are currently trying to figure out if the
games in question are IPX, we think they probably are, but we are using a Novell
platform so they should work, right? I'm having Sue Hollingshead, our LAN
Specialist contact you
directly because I'm really a novice in this area.
Amy
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:34:46 -0800 (PST)
From: janw@norby.latah.lib.id.us (Jan Wall)
Subject: Re: Kidstuff
Hello to all -
I'm afraid I'm adding more heat than light to the Kidstuff discussion! ;)
The point to me, is not that it is an indispensable resource (although I
like it and do use it), but that they have been taking our money for 2 years
with nothing to show for it!
EBSCO lists it at $24/year. I think we prepaid $45 for 2 years.
Now $45 doesn't sound like much, but I can translate that into supplies
(that's almost 25% of my storytime budget for a year!) or books (HOW many PBs?)
The other take I have on it is that they have had *2* years to get their act
together to get an issue out. How long does it take?
I really would like to get more issues, but more than that I would like some
answers...
Thanks for letting me vent!
Jan Wall
Youth Services
Latah County Library
110 South Jefferson
Moscow ID 83843
208-882-3925 fax: 208-882-5098
email: janw@norby.latah.lib.id.us
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:41:26 -0600
From: Carol & Marcel Erkens <erkens@home.com>
Subject: Re: Library Pages
Cathy,
In our library system, the branch managers do the hiring, firing,
training, etc. The pages can, however, be supervised by any of the
librarians that are in charge for that day/evening. The library specialists
can, if they see the pages goofing off, remind them (tell them) to get
busy, as there is always something to do!
The pages don't wear uniforms, but they are given a dress code upon
hiring. They aren't allowed, at this time, to wear blue jeans. They are to
dress appropriately for the workplace where the rest of the staff dresses
professionally, but they are not required to wear "dress" clothes.
(Yes, we
have had to send some of the young ladies home for "innapropriate
dress")
The pages are NOT allowed to answer reference questions. They can answer
directional questions such as "where is the non-fiction", but when a
patron
needs help locating an item, they call someone from the reference staff.
At least at our branch, from what I understand, the pages are there to
reshelve materials, check in recently returned materials, and work at the
circulation desk, as needed, to check in/out items to patrons.
Carol Erkens
Abrahams Branch, OPL
At 10:09 AM 11/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I supervise 5 library pages for the entire library and would love it if you
>could answer some questions:
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:55:52 -0800
From: Celeste Fong <CMFong@ci.ontario.ca.us>
Subject: RE: historical fiction
For those looking for historical fiction listed by date a bibliography can
be found at the following website:
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/FranklinMS/research/hisfic.html
It covers prehistoric times to 1989 and is about 10 pages.
Celeste Fong
So. Ontario Branch Library
cmfong@ci.ont.ca.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:38:46 -0500
From: schachtc@lcm.macomb.lib.mi.us
Subject: Christmas
Friends unseen- anyone with atavistic instincts who'd like to be able to
still use I'M GETTING NUTTIN' FOR CHRISTMAS with their Holiday
programming but feels like they can't because it's just TOO insensitive
ie making smaller children eat bugs etc. might want to get in touch with
me; I've come up with a revised version that I feel retains the basic
Bart Simpsonesque character of the original protagonist while modifying
his depridations enough to avoid having contemporary parents stone you
after you've delighted their children with it.
Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.
schachtc@LCM.macomb.lib.mi.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:32:40 -0600
From: roberts@panet.panet.pa.sk.ca (Marlyn Roberts)
Subject: Request for help
How many of you out there offer Babytime programs at your libraries?
I would like to start one, and have absolutely no idea where to begin.
Could the collective brain please send me some ideas?
TIA,
mkr
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MARLYN K. ROBERTS
Assistant Director
John M. Cuelenaere Public Library
Prince Albert, SK
S6V 1B7
e-mail: roberts@jmc.panet.pa.sk.ca
Ph. : (306)763-8496 ext. 32
Fax: (306)763-3816
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"That's right," said Eeyore.
"Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too.
Here we go gathering Nuts and May.
Enjoy yourself."
- from Winnie-the-Pooh
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:36:36 -0700
From: Valerie Bridge <vbridge@maildrop.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: best books vs. bestsellers
Hello!
I am a student at the School of Library and Information Studies at the
University of Alberta, Canada. I am interested in finding out about
aquisition policies for libraries, mostly regarding children's libraries.
I would greatly appreciate any and all information or policy statements
anyone could send to me about choosing books for your libraries (adult or
children's libraries). Do you choose the "best", or the
"bestsellers" to
offer to your patrons?
Thanks in advance for your help. Please send your information directly to
me at:
vbridge@ualberta.ca
Thanks again!
Valerie Bridge
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:46:49 +0000
From: "Teresa Laubach" <teresa@CI.TIGARD.OR.US>
Subject: Parenting collection in children's area
Dear All:
I recently started a job at a new library and have been faced with a
dilemma of what to do with an existing parenting collection, which is
housed in the children's area. My main problem is that there are a
lot of pregnancy books (such as "What to expect when you're
expecting" and "Your pregnancy over 30"), which I feel would go
better into the adult nonfiction collection. I would like to move
these books and change the focus of the collection, however, I'm
having some trouble with how to do that. There is a seperate "Learn
to read" collection, which I am thinking of combining with the
parenting collection in order to make it one "Parent/Teaching
collection". If you have any ideas or suggestions to help me
formulate this collection, please reply directly to me. Thanks!!
Teresa Laubach
(teresa@ci.tigard.or.us)
Youth Services Specialist
Tigard Public Library
Tigard, OR 97223
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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:29:34 -0500
From: "Pam & Jim" <hoepnep@avci.net>
Subject: library-themed games for 3-6th graders
Hi fellow pubyackers!
I've been out of the loop for the past year - moved from a large
metropolitan system in Tampa, FL. to a small city library that serves 3,000
in Michigan. I would like to start a 6-week program in the evenings for
kids in upper elementary through 6th or 7th grade. I would like to hear if
any of you have successfully used library-themed games. I am also planning
on asking them to share a favorite book each week (so everyone gets a
chance to participate and perhaps find other authors they might like!).
I have used a "concentration"-type game in the past using old book
jackets
mounted on cardboard and the kids match the pairs. I'm not sure what the
attendence will be, but am hoping for around 10 - 15 kids.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know! :)
P.S. For now, messy crafts are out - the library was re-carpeted last
month :)
TIA, and it's great to once again be back on PUBYAC!
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Pam Hoepner hoepnep@avci.net
Bad Axe Public Library "If a turtle doesn't have a
shell,
200 S. Hanselman is he homeless or naked?" :)
Bad Axe, MI 48413
(517) 269-8538
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