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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:30:13 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #659
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:45:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: PUBYAC <pyowner@pallasinc.com>
Subject: PUBYAC ARCHIVES UNAVAILABLE
Dear PUBYACkers,
This morning I discovered that Nysernet has taken their gopher offline.
This was done on April 1, 1999, and I was given no notice of the impending
cutoff. The archives from PUBYAC for approximately five years have been
held and searchable on that archive, and at least for now are
unaccessible.
I have several calls and messages in to Nysernet asking them to open up
access at least to me until I can find a new home for the archives. I
hope that they are understanding and cooperative. I've often communicated
to them how much you all use the archives, and how helpful they are when
you have issues that have been discussed in the past.
At this point, I'm a bit up in the air, because Nysernet has been
providing space for the archives for free. They also, by the way, provide
listserve capability for free. These two services are distinct, although
they are related. I hold out no hope that Nysernet will open up the
gopher for PUBYAC's archive, and therefore, I WILL have to find new
"quarters" for five years of accumulated wisdom and experience.
If anyone out there knows of a server that can donate approximately 35
megabytes of space for the present archives from 1993 to 1999, and is
willing to make those archives accessible 24 hours daily via some kind of
search engine, please contact me. Messages would have to continually be
sent to that machine as they were posted to PUBYAC, and immediately
accessible, probably via the Web now, rather than gopher. I'm sure there
are ways to transfer messages to that format, but I have to do a bit more
research.
Shannon VanHemert
PUBYAC Moderator
pyowner@pallasinc.com
PUBYAC Web page: http://www.pallasinc.com/pubyac
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 99 10:25:28 EDT
From: July Siebecker <july@scils.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: YALSA Announces a New Book Award
Ofcourse, they *are* aware, aren't they, that the new
millenium doesn't start till 2001, and their award is
commencing an entire year early???? Surely those working in
the fields of education and literacy would be up on this??! ;)
July Siebecker
Hubbard Library, Ludlow MA
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:25:18 EDT
From: ILefkowitz@aol.com
Subject: Re: libraires charging for videos
Here at our library we charge $1.00 for borrowing the newest 30 or so videos.
The patron keeps the video overnight and there is a fine of $1.00 per day
late. We rarely get late videos. Patrons don't seem to mind paying a dollar
to see the latest video.
I haven't questioned the director on the rationale for charging to borrow the
videos, but it seems to work here.
Ilene Lefkowitz
Youth Services Librarian
Mount Olive Public Library
ILefkowitz@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:54:28 +1200
From: "Pam Gravenor" <pdgravenor@nelsonlib.org.nz>
Subject: Freezer doll stumper solved
Thanks to Marie and Kathleen for solving the stumper about the little doll
found in a freezer, and given a new home. It is The little girl and the
tiny doll, by Edward Ardizzone.
Thanks!
Pam Gravenor
Children's and Young Adult's Librarian
Nelson Public Library
03 546 0404 fax 03 546 0402
pdgravenor@nelsonlib.org.nz
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:51:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Stephanie Smith <smsmith@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
Subject: Re: Charges for Borrowing Videos
We have charged for videos since we first started carrying them, the point
being that we did not have sufficient budget to afford this new medium.
Everything that the videos brought in was reinvested in the video
collection. Eventually the videos were bringing in more than a decent
budget for videos, both adult and juvenile, and for many years our entire
A-V budget has come from video circulation! We tried to see if just the
non-fiction videos could be checked out for free, but we found that we
circulate too many of them to make free checkout economically feasible.
Although in the new policy statement that would cover circulating C-D Roms
and eventually DVDs, it does recognise that when the medium becomes an
"ordinary" medium the charge could and should be revoked.
Steffi Smith
Head of Youth Services
Zion-Benton Public Library
smsmith@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracey Dittoe <tcy28@yahoo.com>
Subject: help for vertical file
I am currently updating and reorganizing our vertical
file in the children's area (public library). I would
appreciate any help that you all out there can give
me. What do you have in your vertical file? What
information have you found to be the most useful?
What type of information do you wish you could include
in your file? Do you have a particularly successful
way of organizing the information in your vertical
file? Thanks in advance!
Tracey Love Dittoe
Lexington Public Library
tcy28@yahoo.com
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:33:01 -0400
From: Christine Hill <chill@willingboro.org>
Subject: Re: [Dial-a-story dilemna]
Take heart. Attendance at bookstore events varies wildly by type of program and
store location. I have had bookstore workers tell me that, despite the calendar
packed with attractive-sounding programs, NO ONE comes to MOST of them! So
they're not much different from us.
Christine M. Hill
Willingboro Public Library
One Salem Road
Willingboro, NJ 08046
chill@willingboro.org
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:02:58 -0700
From: Beverly Little <blittle@merrimack.lib.nh.us>
Subject: Internet searching for kids
Hi,
A while back a new search engine or index was mentioned that had been designed
especially for children. I somehow didn't keep the information, or I can't find
it. Could someone let me know what it was?
TIA
BeverlyLittle
Head of Youth Services
Merrimack Public Library, NH
'If all is not lost, where is it?'
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