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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:32:00 -0500 (EST)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #490
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:35:36 -0500
From: Christine Hill <chill@willingboro.org>
Subject: Re: Magazines for Girls in the Late 1950's, Early 1960's
My recollection is that the Girl Scout magazine of the 60s was called
American Girl (like the dolls), not Girl Scout.
Christine M. Hill
Willingboro Public Library
One Salem Road
Willingboro, NJ 08046
chill@willingboro.org
Cecilia P. McGowan wrote:
>
> We have a patron request for magazine titles for girls in the late 1950's,
> early 1960's that are of the wholesome variety. Not Seventeen. We already
> have on the list:
>
> Girl Scouts
> Hullabaloo
>
> Can you think of any others that came out during this time?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can give me!
>
> Cecilia
>
> Cecilia P. McGowan
> Youth Services Coordinator
> Spokane Public Library
> 906 West Main
> Spokane WA 99201-0976
> 509-444-5331
> 509-444-5367 FAX
> cmcgowan@spokpl.lib.wa.us
>
> Visit our Kids Home page at http://www.spokpl.lib.wa.us/kids/kids-home.html
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:38:18 -0600
From: lfowler@aea16.k12.ia.us (Linda Fowler)
Subject: Stumper: Planet song
Hello all, a patron is looking for a song to help remember the planet names.
The sentence she remembers is "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine
Pizza pies". Does anyone know a song to go with that? Please reply to
lfowler@aea16.k12.ia.us
Thank you,
Linda Fowler
Burlington Public Library
501 N. 4th St.
Burlingon, IA
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:25:18 -0500
From: Christine Hill <chill@willingboro.org>
Subject: Re: Jewish Libraries
There are two librarians from the Brentwood School in California who
write very good reviews for SLJ on Jewish oriented books- Yapha Nussbaum
Mason and Elisabeth Palmer Abarbanel. I hope that if they're on this
list they forgive me for recommending them without their permission.
Christine M. Hill
Willingboro Public Library
One Salem Road
Willingboro, NJ 08046
chill@willingboro.org
Heidi Estrin wrote:
> In my new job I have become affiliated with the Association of Jewish
> Libraries, and -- beginner's luck! -- they are holding their national
> conference in Boca next June so I get to be on the conference committee.
> So I thought I'd throw out a general inquiry to Pubyac: does anyone
> know of people who might be good speakers on topics that combine Judaica
> and librarianship?
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:55:56 -0500
From: Pam Perdue <pamelape@lori.state.ri.us>
Subject: Re: historical fiction
To Rebecca Goldberg et al,
Here are three professional resource books that deal with historical
fiction:
(1) Cofffey, Rosemary K. America as Story: Historical Fiction for
Middle and Secondary Schools. ALA, 1997.
(2) VanMeter, Vandelia. America in Historical Fiction: a
Bibliographic Guide. Libraries Unlimited, 1997.
(3) What Historical Novel Do I Read Next?: a Reader's Guide to
Historical Fiction. Gale, 1997.
Hope this helps. Pam @ East Providence Public Library, RI
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:40:17 -0500
From: Louise Sevold/Technical Services Director <LSEVOLD@ESCHER.dnet.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
Subject: JOB POSTING CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
JOB POSTING CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Job title: Public Services Librarian I, Children's
Branch: Olmsted Falls Branch Hours: 40 hours/week
Pay level: U 11 Starting pay rate: $13.72/hour
Benefits: CCPL offers hospitalization, life insurance, state
retirement plan, vacation/sick/holiday time and optional benefits.
Under general supervision, provides direct library service to the
public, i.e., reference, reader guidance, outreach; prepares and
presents programs suited to the needs of children and adults
concerned with children, e.g. storytelling, book talks, etc.;
participates in collection development. Applicants with experience
working with a culturally diverse population will be preferred.
Excellent customer service is our highest priority.
QUALIFICATIONS: Masters Degree in Library Science from an ALA
accredited library school, organizational, communication and
interpersonal skills. Applicants with 6 months of more work
experience interacting with children, from infants through 12 years
of age, will be preferred. Applicants must be flexible enough to
work a schedule which will include evening, Saturday and Sunday
hours. Proof of education required. Successful candidate must be
able to spend as many as 48 hours in orientation/training at the
Administration Building.
Serving the growing communities of Olmsted Falls and Olmsted
Township (pop. 15,121), the Olmsted Falls Library prides itself on
providing personalized service from the historic Loomis home (circa
1834) overlooking the picturesque falls of Plum Creek. Housing an
integrated collection of 34,017 volumes and 5,547 audiovisual
materials, the branch circulation has increased by 52% in the past
3 years. In 1997, the library circulation was 231,255.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 1998
Applications may be obtained by calling the Human Resources
Division, Cuyahoga County Public Library (216)749 9464, 1(800)749 5560, (TDD#216
749 9478) or by picking one up from any of the 28
local branches of the Cuyahoga County Public Library. Please note:
Completed applications can only be returned at the Administration
Building, 2111 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134, by 5:00 PM on or before
NOVEMBER 10, 1998. Applications must be complete, accurate and
current. Applications can be returned in person, by mail or FAX
at (216)749 9479. Applicants using FAX should confirm the
library's receipt by phone.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Louise Sevold lsevold@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| Technical Services Division Director |
| Cuyahoga County Public Library |
| 2111 Snow Road phone (216) 749 9383 |
| Parma, Ohio 44134 fax (216) 749 9445
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:02:08 -0600
From: Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us>
Subject: Shoe tying wrap-up (pun intended)
Pubyac folks,
I have had responses coming in for quite a while regarding my shoe-tying
request (for so long in fact that the first few responses are now in
electronic never-never land) and the big winner seems to be _Red Lace,
Yellow Lace_ by Mike Casey, ISBN 0812065530. As I mentioned a few
suggestions were eaten by my email Pac Man (remember him?) but others that
I received are:
The Shoe Book: Learn to Tie Your Shoes by Kate Mason
Lace Them Up by Lilly Barnes
Helpful Shoelace by Pam Adams
Thanks to Mary Voors for those.
On the science encyclopedia front, I did not receive many responses to my
request but I was recently at our state conference and did some looking
there. I have purchased both the Raintree Steck-Vaughn _Illustrated
Science Encyclopedia_ which seems to be at about middle school level as
well as Grolier's _New Book of Popular Science_ which is targeted to junior
high and above.
Eric Norton
enorton@scls.lib.wi.us
Head of Children's Services
McMillan Memorial Library
490 E. Grand Ave.
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin 54494
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:59:30 -0500
From: Christine Hill <chill@willingboro.org>
Subject: Re: stumper
Thanks to Jane Gardner Connor for correctly identifying The Magic Moth
by Virginia Lee, Seabury, 1972.
Christine Hill wrote:
>
> A patron is looking for a middle grade novel about a girl who is dying.
> On her deathbed, surrounded by relatives, she is given a chysalis, which
> opens to reveal a butterfly. She thinks she read it in the 80s, though
> it was not a new book at the time.
> Thanks.
> Christine M. Hill
> Willingboro Public Library
> One Salem Road
> Willingboro, NJ 08046
> chill@willingboro.org
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:17:06 EST
From: Evighet@aol.com
Subject: Bias Books needed
We are having a terrible time with an elementary education assigment.
Students from the local state college are coming in with an assignment
in which they have to do a report on a bias and non bias book. We get
this one every year and always seem to have trouble with it. My question
is this - what books whould you give these students and what's the bias
involved? We're low on choices and wondering if there's a big section
we're missing out there. I thank you all profusely for any help you can give.
Chris Jahnke
Children's Librarian
Great River Regional Library
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:36:39 -0500
From: Loftin <LLOFTIN@mail.mpl.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Re: historical fiction
Rebecca-
Two resources I have found very helpful are "Recreating the Past: A guide
to American and World Historical fiction for Children and Young Adults" by
Lynda G. Adamson and "Cultures Outside the United States in Fiction: A
Guide to 2,875 Books for Librarians
and Teachers, k-9" by Vicki Anderson. Both resources are extensively
indexed and include reading level, time period, etc.
Lisa Loftin
Union Township Library
West Chester, OH
>>> Rebecca Goldberg <goldberg@lemming.uvm.edu> 11/03 4:56 PM
>>>
Dear Pubyacers,
I would appreciate any advice regarding historical fiction
suggestions for teachers and other library patrons.
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:05:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Angela Christianson <achristi@prairienet.org>
Subject: Fiction involving mental illness
Apologies for the cross posting--This message is being posted to PUBYAC
and YALSA-BK.
I am interested in finding fiction for middle grade readers involving
mental illness and/or the mentally handicapped. I have used my OPAC and
_What Do Young Adults Read Next_ and assembled a small list. However, I
am looking for more. My definition of mental illness is pretty broad and
I am also interested in works that talk about issues such as autism,
suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.
Please reply directly to me and I will post a list to both Yalsa and PUBYAC.
Thank you very much in advance,
Angela Christianson
achristi@prairienet.org
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Angela R. Christianson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
achristi@prairienet.org
achristi@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:00:11 -0500
From: Toni Buzzeo <buzzeocyll@mix-net.net>
Subject: OUT OF THE DUST
Dear All,
I just can't resist, now that I have opened the
Longfellow-School-loves-OUT-OF-THE-DUST can of praise. I was standing
at the copy machine today. Up comes my fourth grade male teacher to
talk. What do you think he wants to talk about? Yes, OUT OF THE
DUST--which he just finished reading ALOUD to his class! He's a coach.
He's a hunter. He's a guy's guy, great, but, like the fifth grade boy I
mentioned yesterday, rather a "cool cat." You already know, I suspect,
what he said to me:
"I LOVED that book!"
Toni
Toni Buzzeo
Longfellow School Library Media Center
Portland, ME
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 10:08:46 -0800
From: "Carrie Eldridge" <celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us>
Subject: stumper
A patron is looking for some books to read to child who literally hates
school. She has to fight him to go to school. He is 8 years old. Any
suggestions?
Wade Guidry
San Juan Island Library District
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
wguidry@sanjuan.lib.wa.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:33:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan Hogan <jhogan@spl.lib.wa.us>
Subject: The "Little Red Hen"
A patron has asked us to track down some information about the tale of the
"Little Red Hen". He wants to know the origin of the tale---what
country
it might have come from. Any clues??? Most of what we've looked at just
refers to it as an "old tale" ect. Reply to me not list.
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:22:44 -0800
From: Eastside Branch <sbeast@rain.org>
Subject: RE: Magazines for Girls in the Late 1950's, Early 1960's
I think I subscribed to a magazine (Reader's Digest size) entitled "Calling
All Girls."
Marge Fauver, Librarian/Supervisor
Eastside Branch
Santa Barbara Public Library System
1102 E. Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-963-3727
email: mfauver@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:54:11 -0600
From: Jean Marie Schmeisser <Schmeisser@ci.sat.tx.us>
Subject: Witch/glass mountain stumper solved
Hello all,
A wide variety of people wrote me to say the answer was "The Witch
Family" by Eleanor Estes, and our system owns the book. Of course, now the
patron wants to buy it, but that's outside our domain.
Thanks to all fellow readers who answered our stumper so quickly!
<The patron remember it being about a little witch who may have been named
<Hannah, who had a bumblebee as a companion. She thinks the witch was
<banished to a glass mountain in the story. (She thought the title may have
<been The Little Witch and the Glass Mountain.)
Jean Schmeisser
Librarian I Schmeisser @ci.sat.tx.us
San Antonio Public Library
Children's Unit
600 Soledad
San Antonio, TX 78205
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:34:40 -0600
From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: Librarian Quits Position Over Filtering in Her Library
According to the Washington Times, Jane Rustin, director of Allegany
County Public Libraries, has quit her position because she opposes her
library board's decision to install filtering software on some
Internet stations.
The filters amounts to censorship, she said.
"When you can't support a library policy, I feel you have no other
choice but to leave," she said.
________________________
Don Wood
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
800-545-2433, ext. 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
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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, 5 Nov 1998 13:57:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Claire Isaac <cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca>
Subject: BIB: Single parent list
A few weeks ago I asked for suggestions for books for a family where a
father had abandoned his partner and preschool son. Many people sent
suggestions; many thanks to all of them. The list is below.
Dealing with an absent father
That Is That by Jeanne Peterson
I Wish I Had a Father by Norma Simon
If Daddy Only Knew Me by Lila McGinnis
Diana Maybe by Crescent Dragonwagon
Do I Have a Daddy? by Jeanne Warren Lindsay
Where Is Daddy: The Story of a divorce by Beth Goff
A Father Like That by charlotte Zolotow
If You Listen by Charlotte Zolotow
Books Showing Single Mother Families in a Positive Light
When Mama Gets Home by Marisabina Russo
Jonathan and His Mommy by Irrene Smalls-Hector
Mommy and Me by Ourselves Again by (sorry, I misplace the author's name)
The Wild Baby by Barbro Lindgren
Some of the Days of Everett Anderson by Lucille Clifton
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Single Parent Families by Marilyn Bailey
The Kids Book About Single parent Families by Paul Dolmetsch
God Where's My Daddy by Donna Marie Furrey
Some Frog by Eve Bunting
Thanks again for all the titles.
Claire Isaac
Regina Public Library
Regina, Saskatchewan
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:20:49 PST
From: "Claudia Backus" <backusc@hotmail.com>
Subject: Newbery compiled
Thank you one and all for the many Mock Newbery suggestions. I am sure
that more fine books will emerge in the final months of 1998. Below is
the compiled list - the first 11 titles were mentioned by more than 1
person.
A soldier's heart by Gary Paulsen
Bat 6: a novel by Virginia E. Wolff
My Louisiana sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
Holes by Louis Sachar
Knots in my yo-yo string by Jerry Spinelli
Armageddon summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
The islander by Cynthia Rylant
The storyteller's beads by Jane Kurtz
The squire's tale by Gerald Morris
Snowdrops for cousin ruth by Susan Katz
Riding freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
Fire! my parent's story by Jessie Haas
Strays like us by Richard Peck
A long way from Chicago by Richard Peck (may not be eligible)
Shadow spinner by Susan Fletcher
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
While no one was watching by Jane L. Conly
Choosing up sides by Ritter
Gib rides home by Snyder
The wild kid by Mazer
The sacrifice by Diane Matchek
Heroes by Robert Cormier
Reachin' Dustin by Vicki Grove
Go and come back by Joan Abelove
I think that's about it. I apologize if I missed any or misspelled. I
came back from our state library conference to over 100 messages, many
of them Newbery suggestions. THANKS!!! Claudia
Claudia Backus
Children's Services Coordinator
Waukesha County Federated Library System
321 Wisconsin Av
Waukesha, WI 53186-4786
PH: 414-896-8087
FAX: 414-896-8086
EMAIL:backusc@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 15:32:34 -0600
From: Monika Antonelli <MANTONEL@library.unt.edu>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
***********************************************************************************
The Research and Statistics Committee of the Management and Operation
of User Services Section of RUSA is sponsoring its Fifth Annual
Reference Research Forum at the 1999 American Library Association
Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
This is an opportunity to present and discuss your research project
covering the broad area of reference services such as user behavior,
electronic services, reference effectiveness and organization
structure and personnel. Both completed research and research in
progress will be considered. All researchers, including reference
practitioners from all types of libraries, library school faculty and
students, and other interested individuals are encouraged to submit a
proposal.
The Committee will utilize a "blind" review process to select a
maximum of
three (3) projects for 25-minute presentations, followed by open
discussion. The selected researchers must present their papers in
person at the forum. Criteria for selection are:
* Significance of the study for improving the quality of reference
service
* Quality and creativity of the methodology
* Potential for the research to fill a gap in reference knowledge or
to build on previous studies
* Previously published research or research accepted by December 1,
1998
for publication will not be acceptable.
Please submit a one-page proposal by DECEMBER 1, 1998. Notification
of
acceptance will be made by March 15, 1999. Submissions must consist
of no more than two pages. On the first page, please list your
name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation, and address (including
your mail address, fax number, and e-mail address).
The second page should NOT show your name or any personal information.
Instead it must include:
* The title of your project
* An explicit statement of the research problem
* A description of the research methodology used
* An explanation of the significance of the research to reference
services
Electronic submissions are acceptable and must also be delivered in
two
parts. Notification of acceptance will be made by March 15, 1999.
Please send submissions to:
Diana D. Shonrock, Chair
RUSA MOUSS Research and Statistics Committee
Iowa State University Library
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011-2140
(515) 294-7866 (work); (515) 294-5525 (fax)
shonrock@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu
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