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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:22:59 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:27:51 -0500
From: jandersen@carmel.lib.in.us (Jennifer Andersen)
Subject: Job Openings
Library Positions
Carmel Clay Public Library
Carmel, IN
Join us in time for the grand opening of our 117,000 square foot state of
the art building featuring one of the largest Children’s Areas in the
country. Visit our web site: www.carmel.lib.in.us.
Children’s Librarian. Successful candidate will have ALA/MLS, plus
excellent programming, reference, collection development, and computer
skills. Salary: $25,000+ with outstanding benefits. Contact: Chelsea Bayh,
Children’s Services Coordinator, with resume and letter of application at
Carmel Clay Public Library, 515 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN 46032. Closes:
When filled, with review of applications beginning March 15, 1999.
Children’s Senior Assistant (2 positions). Half-time positions available to
provide services including reference, programming, computer instruction,
and collection development. Graduation from an accredited college or
university required. MLS and experience working with children preferred.
Salary: $10.52/hr with vacation benefits. Contact: Chelsea Bayh, Children’s
Services Coordinator, with resume and letter of application at Carmel Clay
Public Library, 515 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN 46032. Closes: When filled,
with review of applications beginning March 15, 1999.
Children’s Assistant (4 positions). Enthusiastic team players with flexible
schedules (24-32 hours/week) needed to provide library service to children
and their caregivers. Graduation from an accredited college or university,
experience working with children, and proficiency with computers preferred.
Salary: $8.56/hr. with vacation benefits. Contact: Chelsea Bayh, Children’s
Services Coordinator, with resume and letter of application at Carmel Clay
Public Library, 515 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN 46032. Closes: When filled,
with review of applications beginning March 15, 1999.
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|"We're fortunate you know.
Jennifer L. Andersen |Too many people in this
Children's Services Librarian |world spend their lives
Carmel Clay Public Library |doing work that doesn't
515 E. Main St. |really matter in the great
Carmel, IN 46032 |scheme of things. But
317-844-3363 |bringing children and books
jandersen@carmel.lib.in.us |together does matter. And
|we get to do it."
| --Katherine Paterson
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:12:40 -0700 (MST)
From: Vicki Fox <vfox@ppld.org>
Subject: Question about Sterling North
We have a young patron who read RASCAL and was struck by the fact that North
says he was unable to skate again because he was in a wheelchair. Yet, he
does not mention the wheelchair or a disability again. Does anyone know
if this was fact or fiction and what happened to him?
My standard author sources didn't give me any light including Something
About the Author.
Thanks for your help.
Vicki Fox
Pikes Peak Library District
vfox@ppld.org
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:24:34 -0600
From: "Connie Charron" <Conniec@gwmail.plano.gov>
Subject: World War II Paratrooper Stumper solved!
Thanks to Deidre Johnson and her prompt response. The book was put out by
Whitman in 1944 as part of the 8 volume Fighters for Freedom Series. The title
was Dick Donnelly of the Paratroopers. The author was Gregory Duncan (possibly
pseud.). Apparently it can still be found in some used bookstores and special
collections.
My patron is so thrilled!
Thanks againg Deidre!
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:10:08 -0500
From: "Grace Greene, Childrens' Services Consultant" <GGREENE@dol.state.vt.us>
Subject: hi/lo publishers
A school librarian is looking for publishers of hi/lo non fiction books
for her 5th and 6th grade kids who read at a 1st-3rd grade level. I've
told her about Capstone and Enslow. What other companies are currently
producing such books? All recommendations greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Grace Greene
Vermont Department of Libraries
ggreene@dol.state.vt.us
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:59:05 -0600
From: Deborah McClish <Deborah@rockford.lib.il.us>
Subject: stumper--painting called Cain on the Golden Sea
Hi all,
I have an interesting stumper. A patron would like to know who painted
"Cain on the Golden Sea." He saw it on a card (like a baseball card).
He also saw it in a tatoo parlor in CO. He says it is a picture of a
Viking at the head of a ship with one leg resting on the rail. He
believes it is a known painting because a friend of his recognized it as
"Cain on the Golden Sea" as well. I have checked our catalog, our
reference books on art, and some internet sites with no results. Any
art buffs out there who know the artist? Thanks so much for your help.
Deborah McClish
Librarian, Youth Services
Rockford (IL) Public Library
deborah@rockford.lib.il.us
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:41:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Joyce Bigam <bigamjo@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: stumper
Patron stumper -- she recalls reading a book in the mid 70's about a man
who doesn't like to do his dishes -- he uses all of the vases, soap
dishes, etch. in the house until there are no more dishes left. It starts
to rain so he piles all of the dishes into his pickup truck and the dishes
get cleaned -- soooo, he learns to always wash his dishes! Does this
sound familiar to anyone??? She said the illustrations were line drawings
with a little bit of color, maybe watercolor? Thanks to anyone who can
help!!
Joyce Bigam
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
Stow, OH 44224
bigamjo@oplin.lib.oh.us
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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:47:49 -0600
From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: ACTION NEEDED ON S. 97
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 8, Number 22
March 5, 1999
In this issue:
Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Children's Internet
Protection Act, S. 97; Action Needed
On March 4 Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chaired a hearing on filtering
legislation that he and ranking minority member Sen. Ernest
Hollings (D-SC) have proposed. The Children's Internet Protection
Act, S. 97 (See ALAWON v8, n7, January 22, 1999) would "require
the installation and use by schools and libraries of a technology
for filtering or blocking material on the Internet on computers
with Internet access to be eligible to receive or retain universal
service assistance."
In his opening statement McCain said, "Schools and libraries, in
subscribing to the E-rate program, assume the responsibility for
providing a front-line protection policy for children who utilize
their computers to access the Internet." While most witnesses
agreed with McCain's sentiment, there were wide ranging opinions
as to how and by whom these policies should be created and what
they should include.
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), the senator who offered the Acceptable
Use Policy alternative to McCain's legislation last year, said
that he would be co-sponsoring S. 97. After expressing great
concern that the First Amendment not be trampled in the process of
battling child exposure to inappropriate materials on the
Internet, he declared, "We will get this right."
Candace Morgan, associate director of the Fort Vancouver Regional
Library (WA), testified that the bill, as currently framed, would
deny local schools and libraries the opportunity to determine what
approach would best serve children in their communities. "It is
not just that one solution doesn't fit all communities," Morgan
explained. "It is also that a federal mandate on a matter so
closely tied to local norms and values is counterproductive and
even harmful. The legislation may not only discourage communities
from doing the hard work to reach their own solutions; it also
lacks the legitimacy necessary to foster broad community support."
Ms. Morgan's testimony can be viewed online at
http://www.ala.org/washoff/statements.html.
Janie Harris, executive director of Solace House, pleaded with the
Committee for the federal government to provide a "virtual
seatbelt" for the Internet. Solace House is a center serving
grieving children and their families in the Kansas City area of
Kansas and Missouri. She said she would rather see computers
turned off than have children be able to reach the type of
material available on a Web site with a name very similar to
Solace House.
Other witnesses included Mary Anne Layden, director of education,
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Cognitive Therapy, University
of Pennsylvania; Gordon Ross, president, Net Nanny; Bruce Taylor,
president and chief counsel, National Law Center for Children and
Families, Jay Sekulow, president, American Center for Law and
Justice, Elliot Mincberg, vice president and general counsel,
People for the American Way; and Adrian Russell-Falla, chairman,
Rulespace.
ALA, together with a number of education organizations, filed a
letter for the hearing record stating that decisions on how best
to achieve safe, responsible, and appropriate Internet use by
children are most appropriately made at the local level, not by
federal mandate.
Action Needed:
Sen. McCain and some other members of the Committee appeared to
believe that allowing librarians to select and configure filters
that the federal government would require a library to install and
use was enough of a concession to local control. Any library that
has found value in a local policy planning process that may or may
not have included filters should contact their Senators and share
with them the steps being taken to serve, educate and protect the
young people who use their facilities.
Sen. McCain has promised to move this legislation quickly. If
Senators are aware of librarians' efforts to address the very
difficult issues surrounding children's use of the Internet it may
help to preserve your library's ability to make choices about how
to serve your community.
Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to urge Senators to
adjust S. 97 to respect local decisionmaking. If you have a
written Internet use policy as well as a description of the
process your library and its board went through to develop that
policy, please write to your Senator and share that information.
(Please also send a blind copy to the ALA Washington Office at
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004.)
******
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Claudette Tennant and Rick Weingarten.
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:41:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Joyce Bigam <bigamjo@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: stumper
Patron stumper -- she recalls reading a book in the mid 70's about a man
who doesn't like to do his dishes -- he uses all of the vases, soap
dishes, etch. in the house until there are no more dishes left. It starts
to rain so he piles all of the dishes into his pickup truck and the dishes
get cleaned -- soooo, he learns to always wash his dishes! Does this
sound familiar to anyone??? She said the illustrations were line drawings
with a little bit of color, maybe watercolor? Thanks to anyone who can
help!!
Joyce Bigam
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
Stow, OH 44224
bigamjo@oplin.lib.oh.us
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