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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:24:12 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #690
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 21:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mary K. Chelton" <mchelton@pop.erols.com>
Subject: Self-promotion
This is rather shameless self-promotion, but one of the unfortunate
realities of academia is that to get tenure, one winds up spending several
years writing for journals that no practitioner
reads, so I thought I would tell you that a relatively readable summary of
my dissertation (original title: Adult-Adolescent Service Encounters: The
Library Context) is available as an article in the current issue of the
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. The article is
titled "Behavior of Librarians in School and Public Libraries with
Adolescents: Implications for Practice and LIS Education." It appears in
the Spring, 1999 issue (vol. 40, no. 2), pages 99-111). There is no web
site for JELIS. You'll have to interlibrary loan it.
The reason I'm promoting it is that I tried to do something relatively
useful for practitioners and think some of you may be interested.
Mary K.
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Mary K. Chelton
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Studies
Queens College
254 Rosenthal Library
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
USA
Voice: (718) 997-3667
Fax: (718) 997-3797
home:
35 Mercury Ave.
East Patchogue, NY 1772
USA
Voice: (516) 286-4255
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HELP STOP PUPPYMILLS, VISIT:
http://www.nopuppymills.com
Senility Prayer
God grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference...
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Katherine Saunders <ksaunder@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
Subject: teen newsletter
Hi! I'm looking into the possibility of creating a teen newsletter at my
library, and was hoping to hear from some libraries that have had success
with them. I'm looking for information about costs involved,
distribution, who contributes, how often they are put out, and whether or
not they are online or print.
Thanks a bunch!
Katherine Saunders
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Katherine Saunders
Information Services\Teen Services Librarian I
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Cliffdale Branch Library
6882 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville, NC 28314-1936
email: ksaunder@cumberland.lib.nc.us
Phone: (910)864-3800
Fax: (910) 487-9090
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 14:36:06 EDT
From: KPPS@aol.com
Subject: school public cooperation
I am currently a school library media specialist; but, I had been employed as
a children's librarian in a public library for several years. In a post
graduate class I am taking, concerning services to children and youth, the
topic of cooperation between SLMC's and PL's came up. I am uncomfortable
with the amount of distrust or misunderstanding that seems to be present in
both communities.
Do you have any tips on programs that have worked well cooperatively? I am
hoping to find some that have required equal participation and effort on both
sides, and that have been successful.
If you have not had such a program, do you have an insights into the apparent
conflict?
Thank you,
Sharonann Katcher
LMS
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:58:43 -0400
From: "Kathleen Saxton" <ksaxton@wepl.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Star Wars
Hi all,
One branch in our system is having the president of a local Star Wars
fan club come in and talk about the movies and some of the collectibles
from the first Star Wars movies. It's geared toward a YA audience, but
all are invited to attend. Hope this helps!
Kathleen Saxton
Willoughby Library
Willoughby, OH
ksaxton@wepl.lib.oh.us
georgi3@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> Is anyone planning to do any programs to tie into the release of the new
Star
> Wars movie? I'd be interested in hearing about them. I'd also be interested
> in hearing about any other sci-fi titles that young Star Wars fans
(children)
> would be likely to enjoy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Georgi Lon-curcio
> East Islip Public Library
> Long Island, NY
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 10:19:54 -0700
From: "Carrie Eldridge" <celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us>
Subject: Dr. Laura's advice...
I just attended a Washington Library Association talk on Internet
Challenges given by Aki Namioka, President of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility and Software Engineer Manager at Active Voice
Corporation. What I got out of her talk is the unreliablility of filtering
software. The Internet is changing all the time - making it impossible to
have a 'perfect' solution to the problem. She recalled testing different
filtering software and finding that it filters some very unusual stuff.
One filter she tested filters out "Filtering Facts!" Oh well......
By the way is Dr. Laura going after the NRA?
Carrie Eldridge
San Juan Island Library District
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-2798
360-378-2702
celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 20:05:58 EDT
From: EyeSteve@aol.com
Subject: High School Book Fair?
Dear Pubyacers,
Does anybody know of a book company (like Scholastic) who would do an older
teen/YA book fair for a high school audience? The selection should include
Regents
Prep and SAT Prep materials as well as YA fiction.
I'll share any results with you.
TIA
Gail Fell
EyeSteve@aol.com
Librarian, Chappaqua Library
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:22:35 EDT
From: ECUED2TP@aol.com
Subject: your library's policy re: a challenged book
I am a a graduate student taking a course on delivering services to youth in
the public library. For a class assignment, I recently had to respond to a
hypothetical person with objections to a book in our Young Adult collection.
I came accross the "Request for Reconsideration" form. I would like to
find
out at what point is this form given in response to a patron's complaints. Is
it a last resort? Do you use it at all? Is it handed over at the first formal
written complaint? I would greatly appreciate any feedback from youth
services librarians on the procedure your library follows. Thank you for any
information you can provide me with.
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:40:48 -0400
From: "Kathleen Saxton" <ksaxton@wepl.lib.oh.us>
Subject: winter carnival
Dear Jan,
I'm so sorry I took so long to get back to you on this. I've been
whittling away at over 300 e-mail messages that I just can't seem to get
through. I'll get through fifty, then the next day I'll have 60 more!
Anyway, we had a wonderful time at our winter carnival. We had a bean
bag toss (through a posterboard snowman's mouth), an ice-fishing pond
made of cardboard with blue paper lining and saran wrap covering with
holes cut in the top, (we used photocopied colored fish with paper clips
attached to their noses and tails, and dowel rods with string and
magnets), we spray-painted two liter bottles black, added white bellies,
eyes, beak, etc., and gave them party hats. We used these for penguin
bowling. We picked up large styrofoam balls at a craft store for the
bowling balls and made the bowling alleys out of cardboard. We had
snowflake cutting and a food craft where they made their own snowmen
with marshmallows held together with vanilla frosting, pretzel stick
arms, mini m&m's for buttons, and mini chocolate chips for eyes, nose
and mouth. This was also the refreshment, along with hot chocolate we
made and kept warm in a crockpot. This was a family program, so parents
were with the kids at all times to help them with the various
activities. Our student friends also helped, by retrieving the bean
bags, setting up the penguins and doing snowman face-painting. We
marked a few of the fish as "prize winners" and gave "Chill out
with
Reading" buttons out to the kids that won a prize. All the kids got a
"Chill out with Reading" sticker when they entered the room. Our
patrons loved the program and we will probably do something similar in
the future, hopefully with more exciting prizes!
Thanks to all who sent their ideas to us. It truly was a fun program.
Kathy Saxton
Willoughby Library
Willoughby, Ohio
ksaxton@wepl.lib.oh.us
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 11:29:42 -0500
From: Ellen Popit <epopit@shawnet.shawls.lib.il.us>
Subject: Titles through the Century
Does anyone know how to access a listing of popular Children's Titles
broken down by decade through the twentieth century? A member library
would like to spotlight some of those during their summer reading
program.
Thank you!
- --
Ellen Popit, Youth Services Consultant
Shawnee Library System
607 Greenbriar Road
Carterville, IL 62918-1600
Phone: (618) 985-3711, ext. 215
FAX: (618) 985-4211
E-Mail: epopit@shawnet.shawls.lib.il.us
http://www.shawls.lib.il.us
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:20:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Valorie A. Minch" <vminch@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: Dr. Laura
Hear! Hear! That's the whole crux of the matter. Peolpe, including Dr.
Laura, seem to be too lazy to take an active interest in what their
children are doing. They seem to want someone else to do their job for
them. As a parent and a Children's Librarian, I take an active role role
in monitoring what my child looks at. Responsibility for one's own
actions is one of the primary lessons that a child should be taught!
That's my say.
Valorie Minch
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Lisa Prolman wrote:
> In my previous life as a financial aid counselor, I worked for a
> director who *loved* talk radio and especially Dr. Laura. As my boss
> had the only copy of several necessary computer programs, I ended up
> in her office listening to Dr. Laura fairly often. One of Dr.
> Laura's favorite themes is taking responsibility for one's actions.
> Perhaps she should listen to her own advice. If she and other parents
> like her --who feel that uncensored access to information creates
> many of the world's problems-- would take the responsibility of going
> with their children to the library after work and/or on weekends and
> interest themselves in what their children read,listen to, and watch
> maybe there would be less of a need for filters.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Lisa Prolman
> Assistant Children's Librarian "All things considered,
> Greenfield Public Library insanity may be the only
> 402 Main Street reasonable alternative."
> Greenfield, MA 01301
> (413)772-1590
> lprolman@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
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>
Valorie A. Minch
Children's Librarian
Livonia Civic Center Library
32777 Five Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48154
vminch@tln.lib.mi.us
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Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 20:05:24 -0600
From: Nancy Knepel <nknepel@teal.csn.net>
Subject: Non-murder mysteries needed
Greetings;
I'm cross posting this on LM_NET.
1. The middle schoolers are doing mysteries, and I just did 30 titles for
the sixth graders - quick talks, I call them. It dawned on me that most of
them are murder mysteries, and I feel a bit uncomfortable about that now.
Please help me build a good list of mysteries which do not revolve around
murder or violence, i.e. GETTING LINCOLN'S GOAT, or those ecological
mysteries.
2. While I've got you thinking about middle school mysteries, please also
send titles of books for that age group which illustrate good deductive
reasoning. A math teacher wants her kids to read fiction about math, and I
came up with about 20, and convinced her that, to fill in, "thinking
mysteries" would be fine. Luckily, she agreed.
As you suggest titles for either list, please designate which list they
belong on. Please send titles directly to me.
Thanks in advance. I'll post the compilations on this listserv.
Cheers!
Nancy Knepel
Northglenn (CO) Middle School
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Domingos <ddomingo@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Re: Intergenerational programs
Charlene,
We did a very successful intergenerational program last year. It was
mural painting done outside with a bus full of senior citizens from a
local nursing home and kids and their parents who came together to work on
mural done on brown craft paper. Our theme was the sea and everyone could
create their own working together. The interaction between the
generations was a nice thing to watch. The murals went back to the
nursing home to decorate the halls. Good Luck!
Deb Domingos
Brookhaven Library
Brookhaven, New York 11719
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:10:52 -0500
From: Barb <baf@lacrosse.lib.wi.us>
Subject: "CyberVan"
Does anyone use a "cybervan" or something with a name like that for
outreach to introdue library materials, including the Internet andother
computer software, to children? By "cybervan" we mean a van equipped
with computers as well as books and other library materials that travels
to neighborhood centers. We are looking for information on how they
function, how they have been received by neighborhood communities, what
type of retrofitting has been done, of any was done., etc.
Quite an order!!!
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:02:33 -0500
From: Barb <baf@lacrosse.lib.wi.us>
Subject: Staff wages survey
Has anyone out there done a salary/wage survey comparing library staff
to other city departments? We are especially interested in any equity
pay comparisons? Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:42:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stefanie Halliday <hallida1@metronet.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: Laura and Alice
This reminds me--I would be interested to know how many of you have been
challenged on the Go Ask Alice web site recently. We linked to this
site from our Young Adult page in a section called "But Seriously"
(http://www.metronet.lib.mi.us/canton/ya) and were recently challenged
by a patron (who had heard about it on Dr. Laura.) Our neighboring
library was also challenged on this site. I put together a proposal
about why we should keep it, but there is still debate, and it's not
looking good...
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Stefanie A. Halliday
Young Adult Librarian
Canton Public Library
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:44:13 -0500
From: Kim Flores <kimf@mail.orion.org>
Subject: Re: CD Rom Computer
This is to Elaine Moustakas about the cd rom computer. In our
children's department we have two terminals which only show our online
catalog, one terminal that has access to the internet, games and indexes
like Ebsco and SIRS Discoverer and another that has only games. We have
a sign on each of the game computers that says "Please sign in at the
desk before using this computer. Access is limited to 20 minutes when
others are waiting. Maximum access is one hour." We have a sign up
sheet at the desk and we use a timer to make sure each person gets their
twenty minutes. This works pretty well, although when we are busy it is
hard to keep track. We used to let children play as long as they liked
if no one was waiting but strangely enough, it was the parents who
abused the computer more often than the children. Some would get onto
the internet and ignore their children. I've made a point of reminding
them that they are responsible for their children and I have enforced
the one hour limit, even if no one is waiting but I have given them the
opportunity to come back an hour later and sign up again. This has
seemed to solve the problem to a large extent. However, I think it is
easier for me to enforce the rules and speak to patrons as the dept
manager than it is for some of the other staff members. We do have
patrons who only use the computer but more of them read, as well. The
way I see it, at least they're in the library and have access to the
materials we provide, whether they use them or not. These are our
future patrons and we want to make sure they keep coming back. Besides,
someday they'll need information for a school report...
Kim Flores-Springfield MO
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Date: 4 May 99 07:32:02 PDT
From: Carol Exner <crexner@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: [teen teasing]
Dear Jeani,
As a teased student whose daughter was also a teased student, I can only
commend your remarks. No teacher stepped in to help either me or my daughter;
the janitor at my daughter's sixth-grade school was the one to protect her
from teasing and to bring it to my attention. And no one tought us to deal
with these people.
Those scars stay with a person for a lifetime, even if there is no acting
out. I do not know why the schools "wimp out" on this one. But from
the
reactions I have seen both on the news and here at home, they haven't learned
a thing.
Carol Exner
Durham Co. (NC) Library/Parkwood Branch
Jeani Littrell-Kwik <jeankwik@kcls.org> wrote:
I've been lurking on PUBYAC for a few years now and have been driven to
post in response to the calls to treat outcast teens with respect.
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:35:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mary K. Chelton" <mchelton@pop.erols.com>
Subject: Laura and Alice
>From PUBLIB:
>Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 07:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michelle Yezerski <cpc@ohio.net>
To: plib2@sunsite.berkeley.edu
Subject: Laura & Alice
I believe librarians may want to know why parents around the country are
dismayed by the selection of this site to the ALA YALSA web page
*recommended* list for CHILDREN ages 12-18. <
The Teen Hoopla site is for adolescents, not children. This is deliberate
misinformation on Ms. Yezerski's part. It would be nice of the people
objecting to the Go Ask Alice website would suggest an alternative site
which may have been overlooked or come into existence more recently, but
obviously they would prefer to trash ALA for their own ideological reasons.
Mary K. Chelton
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Mary K. Chelton
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Studies
Queens College
254 Rosenthal Library
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
USA
Voice: (718) 997-3667
Fax: (718) 997-3797
home:
35 Mercury Ave.
East Patchogue, NY 1772
USA
Voice: (516) 286-4255
****************************************************
HELP STOP PUPPYMILLS, VISIT:
http://www.nopuppymills.com
Senility Prayer
God grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference...
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Date: 4 May 99 07:22:39 PDT
From: Carol Exner <crexner@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: [Teaching Tolerance - Teen pledge]
Dear Bina,
A wonderful suggestion!
And has anyone heard of the teens from Nashville, TN who put together a
pledge to refrain from teasing, taunting or otherwise singling out those
students who were different from the others? I hade heard of this through one
of the news sources and wondered if anyone had also heard of it? This seems
like an idea whose time has come. It also returns control to the teens
themselves.
Carol Exner
Durham Co. (NC) Library/Parkwood Branch
bwilliams@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us (Bina Williams) wrote:
I would recommend the publication Teaching Tolerance put out by the
Southern Poverty Law Center. "The goal of Teaching Tolerance is to offer
free, high-quality educational materials to help teachers promote
interracial and intercultural harmony in the classroom." I would add that
parents and librarians can gain from this and can take the ideas beyond the
school setting. I think that, as we try to make sense of violence in
Colorado and our city streets, we need to work on making people accept
"others" more readily.
It is mailed twice a year free to educators.
www.splcenter.org
400 Washington Ave
Montgomery AL 36104
Bina Williams
Bridgeport CT Public Library
bwilliams@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us
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