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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:06:28 -0500 (EST)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #637
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:53:39 EST
From: JoysApple@aol.com
Subject: Re: The internet in public libraries
May I play devil's advocate? What about school libraries? Anyone for/ against
filters.
Joy R. Patterson
Special Education Teacher
New Jersey
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:31:43 -0600 (CST)
From: lochwouters@axp.winnefox.org
Subject: Global Animal Adoptions
Last year we had alot of success motivating older kids to participate in
our summer reading program by adopting a whale for every 1000 hours kids
cumulatively read (all the kids combined, that is). We'd like to do the
same this year with our "Go Global" summer theme...focusing perhaps on
pandas or tigers or other endangered species on an international level.
So far, we've had no luck finding an adoption opportunity...so I'm
throwing this out to the collective mind on PUBYAC. Does anyone have a
contact or website that you can share with me (last year we ended up
adopting 11 whales for $20 each; our Friends picked up the tab)? TIA>
Marge L-W
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Marge Loch-Wouters | Email: lochwouters@winnefox.org
Menasha's Public Library lochwout@athenet.net
Elisha D. Smith Public Library | Phone: (920)751-5165
Menasha, WI 54952-3191 | Fax: (920)751-5159
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:23:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Vailey Oehlke <vaileyo@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
Subject: Re: drug reference resource?
Don't know if you're interested in Web sites, but we've got a good
collection of sites on the Multnomah County Library Homework Center site:
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/healhc.html#drugs
There are a couple of sites such as the "Chart of Illegal Drugs" and
the
DEA site that have quite a bit of the type of information I would think
students need for reports.
- -Vailey
Vailey Oehlke Voice: (503)736-6047
School Corps Librarian Pager: 599-1784
Multnomah County Library Fax: (503)248-5441
205 NE Russell, Portland, OR 97212
e-mail: vaileyo@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:08:50 -0800
From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <magilpat@walnet.walla-walla.wa.us>
Subject: Re: Summer Reading Club - No Incentives
I would say that the things you list in your post ARE incentives; our kids
love to get their names posted and their booklogs stamped. Of course they
also love the free book at the end.
Sally Goodroe wrote:
> Dear PUBYACers,
> I have recently moved to a system which has a policy of not providing
> incentive prizes for kids who enter the Summer Reading Club. In the
> past, librarians work to get kids to finish ten books/6 hours by posting
> names which move from one bulletin board to the next, stamping reading
> logs, etc. I would like to know if others out there have ideas that
> have worked to encourage kids to get excited to read enough to get their
> certificates. (These ideas might also combine with incentives for
> libraries who do give prizes.) Thanks in advance,
> Sally
> --
> Sally Goodroe, Children's Specialist
> Harris County Public Library, Houston
> 8080 El Rio Street, Houston, TX 77054
> 713-749-9031 FAX 713-749-9090
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:21:21 -0500
From: "Earl and Kirsten Martindale" <earlmart@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Summer Reading Club - No Incentives
Sally,
You might give the book Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn a peek...after
reading it a few years ago, we changed our summer reading program incentive
program and watched the kids really start to read for ENJOYMENT. The folders
became THEIR responsibility, not ours, and the requirements for completing
changed from "read two non-fiction and eight fiction at your reading
level"
to "please have your parents help you decide what you can complete."
We
found that some school reading programs (Accelerated Reader for one)
although effective, are so regimented that children do not always get to
read what they want. Summer Reading at our library increased quite a bit as
children passed the word that it was "fun" and not quite so
"homework-like."
Yes, we still handed out business sponsored food and entertainment prizes to
each person who completed their folder, but we kept track of nothing...all
the child had to do was bring in their finished folder, which, in one case I
recall as being one book....Little Women...for a third grader. Would she
have read it if she would have had to read ten books? Probably not. But it's
what her parents helped her decide was OK. Of course, there were those few
children who still wanted us to set the limits for them...and we did. We
also had a few children who continued to read all the easy books becuase
they wanted to read "100 books this summer." No system is perfect, but
this
worked for us, and required very little effort on our part.
Kirsten Martindale
Buford, GA
Former Children's Librarian, Menomonie Public Library, WI
From: Sally Goodroe <sgoodroe@stic.lib.tx.us>
To: pubyac@nysernet.org <pubyac@nysernet.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:46 PM
Subject: Summer Reading Club - No Incentives
>Dear PUBYACers,
>I have recently moved to a system which has a policy of not providing
>incentive prizes for kids who enter the Summer Reading Club.
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:20:28 -0600
From: "Mary Seratt, Sr.Manager, Main Children's" <SERATTM@memphis.lib.tn.us>
Subject: cheap at twice the price
Salary Differential
And now for something completely different:, I have a question
about salaries. I am on a staffing committee, and last week, the
topic of pay differentials for Childrens Librarians came up. We
are beginning to gather data on this intriguing (to me, anyway)
concept. If any of you work for a system that pays their
Childrens Librarians more money that Adult Services
Librarians, I would like to know your answers to the following
questions:
1) How does your system a) justify and b) calculate the pay
difference? It will not be enough to offer the common
knowledge that Childrens Librarians work harder (run faster,
jump higher) than their Adult counterparts...how did your
system quantify this?
2) What was the feedback from the Adult Services Librarians?
3) Does it help with retention/ recruitment?
Our folks do huge amounts of outreach, in-house-
programming, travel (mileage $ is available), committee work,
etc. We can show this in terms of hours spent, both in
preparation and execution. We can also quantify the
specialized knowledge base necessary for Childrens work,
thanks to the great ALSC list of competencies. What I need to know
is how (if) it worked for your system.
Thanks yet again,
Mary
Mary Seratt
Senior Manager, Main Childrens Dept.
Memphis /Shelby County (TN)Public Library
serattm@memphis.lib.tn.us
P.S. See? Still no apostrophes or quotation marks! I am getting
the hang of it!
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:25:40 -0800
From: Pat Cumming <Pat_Cumming@bc.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Madeline party activities
Linda s. Slaninka wrote:
>
> We are planning a Madeline 60th birthday party during National Library
> Week. Any suggestions for activities, games, crafts, whatever. This event
> is for families. Anyone have a good web site for Bemelmans or Madeline?
> TIATry this webpage
http://www.cwonders.com/cwonders/madeline/download.html
I had a Madeline birthday party for my daughter and found colouring pages
and finger puppets that were very useful.
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:40:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Kirsten Edwards <kirstedw@kcls.org>
Subject: Re: Purchasing Harry Potter et al
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jill Patterson wrote:
> (expensive) shipping bullet. I don't understand why it is illegal to buy
> from out-of-country bookdealers. It's not like these are bootleg copies;
> the authors are certainly getting their royalties.
It's not illegal, just expensive. Questions were raised as to whether or
not it's ethical, but that's a horse of a different color.
Kirsten
kirstedw@kcls.org
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:11:38 -0600 (CST)
From: Sandra Grambsch <sgrambsc@owlsnet.owls.lib.wi.us>
Subject: Re: Adult incentives
we give "Reader of the Week" prizes to the kids and "Parent of
the Week"
prizes to parents for encouraging their children to be involved in our
summer reading program.
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Linda Peterson wrote:
> Along with our summer reading for children we also do a reading contest =
> for adults. The adults complained last year they didn't get many prizes! =
> For our children they usually get a book plus about 3 other Oriental =
> Trading type items. Does anyone out there give trinket type prizes to =
> adults and if so what kind? We are going to get some fast food coupons.=20
> Linda Peterson
> lpeterson@bloomfield.lib.in.us
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:59:22 -0600
From: "Children's Dept." <child@rosenberg-library.org>
Subject: Bilingual StoryTime
Does anyone out there have any ideas about how to structure a Bilingual
StoryTime? I'm starting an English-Spanish one in June and would like
input from people who have done some before, or who have any ideas on
the subject. Only bilingual books or English one time and Spanish the
next? Alternate during the storytime? Could use the help! Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:18:21 -0600
From: Jennifer McQuilkin <hzz006@mail.connect.more.net>
Subject: Re: Purchasing Harry Potter et al
At 02:52 PM 3/16/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I'd like to add my disgruntlement that the Marsden _Tomorrow When the War
>Began_ series are not yet out in this country. We have the first three
>titles, but the first 5 have been out in Australia for close to a year
>(albeit only in paperback). Why should we have to wait so long ESPECIALLY
>for series titles?<snip>
>
Doesn't this all balance out when the British audience buys Grisham or
King ahead of
UK printing through amazon.com? As a librarian I will wait until US
publishing because
of extra costs with shipping and no discount etc. But personally I've
bought the 2nd
Harry Potter and can't wait for the 3rd. Just my 2 cents.
Jennifer
>
Jennifer McQuilkin Children's Librarian, Joplin Public Library
300 S. Main St. Email hzz006@mail.connect.more.net
Joplin, MO 64801-2384 (417)623-7953 phone, (417)624-5217 fax
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