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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:39:27 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #700
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:49:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: carmel <carmel@ulysses.sebridge.org>
Subject: Re: Internet printing fees
We charge fifteen cents a page for printing, same as what we charge for
photocopies. We have 5 public access terminals. We do not charge for
printing from the one dedicated OPAC printer as this is dot matrix.
None of our patrons seem to complain. We used to keep paper in the
printer and go by the honor system, but we found this didn't work awfully
well. Now we follow the model of some academic libraries and sell the
paper...at .15 a sheet or 7 sheets for a dollar. We buy back unused
paper. This is working out extremely well and we're actually making a
little money on it because lots of people don't bother to sell back
unused sheets of paper! Marilyn Schlansky, Reed Library, Carmel, NY.
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:21:10 -0500 (EST)
From: CHI_TONYA@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US
Subject: Need help creating a book list
Hello 'Yaccers! I have a question for you. I finished a bookmark yester-
day that will list "self-seteem-y" type titles ("A Girls' Guide
to Life,"
"Girls Speak Out") and web sites designed specifically for girls (Girl
Tech,
Girl Site). While I was working on it, I thought "Gee, I wonder if I
should try to do something like this for boys, too?" Well, both my
supervisor, and *HER* supervisor said the same thing to me. So, I
found myself searching our database for similar books for boys. This
is where I ran into my first problem.
The only title I could find, that was non-fiction and targeted boys in the
4-7ish grade level was "Boys Will Be" by Bruce Brooks. I mentioned
this
to our YA librarian, and this is the only title he could come up with.
(Then we discussed whether boys seek the same type of support that girls
do when they reach that weird "tween-ager" level, but that's another
story...)
Can anyone out there suggest any other titles that would be on a 4-7th
grade level, preferrably non-fiction, and that would talk about what
boys have to deal with as they are growing up? I'm also going to start my
search for related web sites, and would appreciate any imput you all have
there.
Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give!
Tonya Cross
Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library
Dayton, OH
chi_tonya@dayton.lib.oh.us
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:15:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Claire Isaac <cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca>
Subject: Stumper-video
A patron wants to know if the book"Face on the Milk Carton" has been
made
into a video. She thinks it was shown on TV--an afterschool special
perhaps?
If anyone has any information on this please contact me directly
Thanks very much.
cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca
Claire Isaac
Regina Public Library
Regina, Saskatchewan
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:09:53 -0300 (ADT)
From: Vivian Howard <howardv@is.dal.ca>
Subject: Re: Books for Teens in the Cyber Age
Issue 57 of the YA HOTLINE newsletter, "Teens on the Infobahn,"
contains a
list of YA novels in which the internet features as a plot element. This
list includes the following works:
Bruce Balan, The Cyber.kdz series
David Boyd, _Bottom Drawer_
Scott Ciencin, The Lurker Files series
Tom Clancy, _NetForce_
Caroline B. Cooney, _Wanted!_
Elizabeth Craft, the @cafe series
Jordan Cray, the danger.com series
Stephanie Doyon, _It Had to be You_
Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, eds, _Future Net_
Shariann, Lewitt, _Interface Masque_
Harry Mazer, _City Light_
Wil McCarthy, _Murder in the Solid State_
Joan Lowery Nixon, _Search for the Shadowman_, _Don't Scream_
Stephanie S. Tolan, _Welcome to the Ark_
Graham Watkins, _Interception_
Vivian Howard
School of Library and Information Studies
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:26:11 +0000
From: "Vicky Smith" <vjsmith@mcarthur.lib.me.us>
Subject: BIB: Black Characters in Fantasy
Sorry this has been so long delayed!!! I'd try to come up with a
good reason for it, but it wouldn't be good enough--alas. Many
thanks to everyone who suggested titles to me, and especial thanks
go to Andrew Hunter of the Public Library of Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County, who first faxed, and then when the fax
transmission went awry, mailed to me the Subject Index and
appropriate entries to Ruth Nadelman Lynn's "Fantasy Literature for
Children and Young Adults: an Annotated Bibliography."
It turns out that my original observation was correct: there just
isn't much fantasy, especially high or quest fantasy, that features
Black protagonists. (I use the term Black rather than
African-American because it seems to me that the term is politically
constructed and inaccurate if applied to persons of African descent
living, say, in England, or wholly inappropriate when referring to
denizens of other worlds.) If you're interested, the books I ended
up writing my paper on were: "Imaro" by Charles Saunders, "Legend
of
Tarik" by Walter Dean Myers, "Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy
Farmer,
and "Sandry's Book" and "Daja's Book" from Tamora Pierce's
Circle of
Magic series. It was a lot of fun, and you all gave me terrific
ideas, both for my paper and for future reading.
For the purposes of this bibliography, I'm not limiting entries to
high fantasy, so this'll include time travel, ghost stories,
science fiction, etc. I am, however, limiting the list to books
that feature Black protagonists, so books that have black
secondary or peripheral characters won't appear. Without further
ado, here's the bib:
Ansa, Tina McElroy. Baby of the Family.
Bethancourt, T. Ernesto. Tune in Yesterday.
Bisson, Terry. Fire on the Mountain.
Brittain, Bill. All the Money in the World.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. The Spirit Ring.
Burgess, Barbara Hood. Oren Bell.
Butler, Octavia. The Kindred. (and others)
Carew, Jan. Children of the Sun.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. Conjure Tales.
Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster.
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm.
The Warm Place.
Foster, Alan Dean. the Journeys of the Catechist series
Gray, Genevieve S. The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody.
Hamilton, Virginia. The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl.
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush.
the Justice trilogy
the Dustland trilogy
Hurmence, Belinda. A Girl Called Boy.
Kellogg, Marjorie. The Book of Water.
LeGuin, Ursula. the Earthsea trilogy
Left Hand of Darkness.
Myers, Walter Dean. The Legend of Tarik.
Norton, Andre. Lavender Green Magic.
Octagon Magic.
Pierce, Tamora. the Circle of Magic series
Saunders, Charles. the Imaro series
Weber, David. the Honor Harrington series
Vicky Smith
Children's Librarian
McArthur Public Library (207)284-4181
270 Main Street http://www.mcarthur.lib.me.us
Biddeford, ME 04005 vjsmith@mcarthur.lib.me.us
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