Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:04:28 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #708

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:39:54 -0700
From: Laura Whaley <WHALEYL@santacruzpl.org>
Subject: RE: Dr. Laura's "new" campaign

My response is
(1) how am I (and other library workers) to know what you deem appropriate
for your child?
(2) if your child is not able to make a decision based on the values you
taught him or her I would think they're a little too young/immature to be in
the library without an accompanying adult. As you state: others have
different opinions on what is appropriate. What might be considered
inappropriate in the Bible belt may be acceptable on the west coast. Are you
suggesting a blanket approach...these books my only be checked out by age?
what about emotional and intellectual maturity? who makes the decision?
(3) finally, I don't know a single librarian or staff member where I work
who would knowingly give a child a book that they (the staff member) thought
the child could not adequately understand.
Just my thoughts,

Laura
Boulder Creek Branch Library

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:25:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: maureen lerch <lerchma@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: notes to teachers

Hello!
I just spent a few minutes hand-writing a note to send to school
with a student that the librarians have exhausted all of our print and
online resources and were unable to find the answer. If anyone has a
handout ready-made for this purpose, would you mind sharing the
information? Thanks in advance!
Maureen :-)
Maureen T. Lerch, MLS
Young Adult Librarian
lerchma@oplin.lib.oh.us
* Orrville Public Library *
* 230 North Main Street *
* Orrville, Ohio 44667 *
* (330)683-1065 / fax (330)683-1984 *
* http://www.orrville.lib.oh.us *

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:53:34 -0400
From: "Inge Saczkowski" <isaczkow@niagarafalls.library.on.ca>
Subject: Re: bringing your children to the Library.

When oldest child was about 6, he sometimes came to work with me,
expecially on Sundays when we were open only for 3 hours. It wasn't ideal,
sometimes I have brought the kids ( never younger than 6) when my husbadn
has been delayed in getting home from work and I have to be there at 5. My
employers were very tolerant of this, becasue I didn't do it too often or
too long and always had a small task for the kids to do ( they loved
stamping discard on all the disarded books with that nice big stamp) or
cutting paper or putting VF material neatly in alphabetical order, ready
for filing. it's now 7-8 years later and tey have a real respect for my
job, an appreciation and love of the Library. I no longer need to bring
them, but sometimes i do because they love it. A little kindness,
compasssion, tolerance and understanding for working parents is a good
thing!

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:48:31 -0700
From: "Marin Younker" <MARIN@CI.TIGARD.OR.US>
Subject: Re: Renting the Princess Bride

duh, criterion's # is 1-800-890-9494. our sales contact is anne goodman.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J. Marin Younker
Young Adult Services Librarian
Tigard Public Library
Tigard, OR 97223
(503) 684-6537

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:40:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Erin V. Helmrich" <helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Middle school visits?

Dear Pubyaccers:

I'm hoping some of you might have some good advice for me. I'm visiting
the middle schools in my area in the next few weeks and this is my first
time doing school visits EVER!! I am of course promoting my teen summer
program and have a general idea of what I'm going to say. I'm going to be
speaking to groups of over 100 kids which makes it a little harder. I am
speaking to 6th , 7th and 8th graders (all separately though).

Does anyone have any advice, DOs and DON'TS they might pass on? What
did you do that bombed, what was a super success? How not to get the 8th
graders to roll their eyes out of their head with jaded boredom perhaps?
I know, that's asking too much! (:> ANY advice would be greatly
appreciated!! Please respond directly to me.

TIA!

ERIN

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{/}{/} {/}{/}
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{/}{/} Youth Services/Young Adult Librarian {/}{/}
{/{}/} {/{}/}
~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~

Royal Oak Public Library
222 E. 11 Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, Michigan 48067

PHONE 248.541.1470 / FAX 248.545.6220 / E-MAIL helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:47:40 -0700
From: "Marin Younker" <MARIN@CI.TIGARD.OR.US>
Subject: Re: Renting the Princess Bride

rebecca, try criterion pictures - you buy a copy of the video (or use one you already have in the collection) and they sell you a license. don't have to pay shipping. marin.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J. Marin Younker
Young Adult Services Librarian
Tigard Public Library
Tigard, OR 97223
(503) 684-6537

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Serchay <a013213t@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Re: Renting the Princess Bride

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Rebecca Purdy wrote:

> Our Teen Council really wants to show the Princess Bride as our end of
> Summer Reading Program. Only problem is, it's not listed in the Swank
^^^^^
> catalog. Does anyone out there know of another company that rents
^^^^^^^^^^

Doesn't sound like it would carry kid-friendly videos :)


David Serchay

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:38:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: Leslie Hauschildt <lhauscht@info.jefferson.lib.co.us>
Subject: Re: Toys r us

I also sent a message (from my home e-mail), and did receive a response
that my message/comment/request for them to reconsider their action was
being forwarded to corporate communications. I received that message
yesterday, having sent my message Friday.


Leslie Hauschildt 303-936-9407
Childrens Services, Villa Library 455 S. Pierce
Jefferson County Public Library Lakewood, CO 80226
lhauscht@jefferson.lib.co.us

The above message is mine and mine alone, and does not represent the
official opinion of my employer.

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Carrie Eldridge wrote:

> I expressed my opinion at the Toys r us site and have received no response.
> Anybody hear from them yet?
>
> Carrie
> 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: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:29:11 EDT
From: LEvarts@aol.com
Subject: Re: Armed police officers at high schools

I work in a rural high school in Wisconsin, student population 800. We have
a police liasion officer, and he carries a gun. I am by no means a gun
advocate, but he is a highly trained professional and he acts as such. As
school personnel, we are grateful to have Travis, our officer, in school with
us. He regards his job much as an old neighborhood beat cop would, and
everyone in our school, even kids he deals with regularly, treats him with
great respect. The gun issue has never really come up for us because we have
an officer we are comfortable with and trust completely. I think one thing
you need to think about is carefully choosing someone for the position that
you know will guard everyone's safety. We just went through a bomb scare, and
it was reassuring to know that Travis was dealing with it. I am an ardent
supporter of a well-trained, personable, professional officer in any school
district.

Lynn Evarts
Library Media Specialist
Sauk Prairie High School
Prairie du Sac, WI

In a message dated 5/19/99 5:17:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
jwialb@alam1.lib.co.alameda.ca.us writes:

<< Our local high school has applied for a grant to get money to pay for a
resources officer. In Albany this means an armed police officer. >>

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adela Peskorz <peskorza@yahoo.com>
Subject: A plea for policies

It's been quite a while since I've tapped into your
(always stellar!) collective wisdom, but I know I need
some help here and this is always the place I can get
the very best possible. One of the many hats I juggle
these days is as a Library Board trustee for my county
library system. As such, I've been putting a lot of
focus on, ahem, shall we say, shifting their paradigm
on youth and YA services (no small task, believe me).
Well, there's a small inkling that they're beginning
to see the light, but I don't think it's my powers of
persuasion as much as some pretty hard reality checks
when it comes to funding sources and options. So
FINALLY they're (actually I should say much more the
administration than the board members) chiming in when
it comes to discussion on programs--hopefully YA ones,
which I keep pushing--and naturally, being a
hard-core, dyed in the wool YA librarian from way
back, I talked about the potential within the local
business community to support programs with donations
(I'm seeing raffles! prizes! FOOD!) and other concrete
means of endorsement, promotion, and support. Since
this will involve revising policy language, I was
asked to get some examples of policies currently in
effect in libraries taking advantage of this route.
You can send responses directly to me, at the
addresses below, and, as always, I am forever grateful
for your help.

Adela Peskorz
Library Instruction Coordinator/Metropolitan State
University/St. Paul, MN
(formerly Coordinator of YA Services/Minneapolis
Public
Library)
peskorza@yahoo.com OR
adela.peskorz@metrostate.edu
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:29:40 -0400
From: Charles Schacht <schachtc@libcoop.net>
Subject: Re: Dr. Laura

Valerie -And what about all of the unsupervised millions who stop by to visit
their local libraries every day across the country on their way home from
school etc? It's a fine thing that your kids are so well supervised, but
that's flat out not possible for a whole lot of families. I don't think many
of us would be happy with a "no parent/guardian, no computer" policy.

Chuck Schacht
Romeo District Library
Romeo, MI.

"Valorie A. Minch" wrote:

> Chuck:
> I see what you're saying but it's all part of responsible parenting. When
> my kids are surfing the net I am with them and I let them know what sites
> they are not allowed to get into.

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Teri Titus <titust@pls.lib.ca.us>
Subject: Re: library-school relations

Might it be possible to make an alliance with the school librarian? I
refer students back to their school library when I know the school library
has a source we don't and she refers students to us for resources the
school library doesn't have. Also, see if you can attend a faculty
meeting to show what new sources you do have; or attend a department
meeting and show new sources relevant to that department. If that's not
possible, along with the request you send for assignment info, include
examples of what you have... special reference sources, CD-Roms, Internet
access... whatever... it may take a while and repeated tries, but even if
you get through to only one or two teachers it can make a difference.
This can take some planning and co-operation from others on your staff,
but maybe a Teacher Open House to show off what you have?
School and public libraries are on the same side... that's the message to
get across to the school.

Good Luck!


)
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Teri Titus, Belmont Branch Library, SMCo
1110 Alameda, Belmont, CA 94002
titust@pls.lib.ca.us
phone: 650-591-8286 x222 voice mail 650-591-8286 x321
fax: 650-591-1195

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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:24:55 -0700
From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <magilpat@walnet.walla-walla.wa.us>
Subject: Re: Dr. Laura

The fact remains that Dr. Laura is Big Business. Her books are bestsellers an her show has a huge audience. One's personal opinion that she might be Rush Limbaugh on speed doesn't negate her influence.

ROBIN DAVIS wrote:

> Well, I guess it is time for me to say something about Laura Schlessinger.

> My own personal opinion is that if someone is so insensitive that they insult everyone, including members of their own faith, they MIGHT not need to be taken too seriously in other areas. I feel that Laura Schlessinger is often misinformed and always aims at the "knee jerk reaction." In this case, we are playing into her game by keeping the focus on her. Please note that these are my own opinions only.
> Thank you,
> Robin Davis, Youth Services Supervisor, Farmers Branch Manske Library

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:26:42 -0400
From: "Christolon, Blair B" <bchristolon@pwcgov.org>
Subject: RE: library-school relations

Our Public Library System cooperates with our local school district Prince
William County Public Schools ( VA) to support their school summer reading
assignments. Our ten libraries help provide over 50,000 students with
public library books during the summer. The choices of the teachers can be
found on the School District's website at http://www.pwcs.edu click on
Instructional programs and then on Summer Reading programs. In addition,
this year the school district has begun a major initiative of having every
11th grader write a 4-7 page research paper which will be graded by readers
OUTSIDE the student's individual school. If the student fails this research
paper, he does not pass 11th grade English. The public school system sent 2
teacher/administrators to train our public librarians on what to expect from
this assignment; how we could be helpful; and what to expect the student to
already know and do. These are just 2 ways in which we have begun to work
together. Blair
*****opinions are mine*******
Blair B. Christolon
Librarian, MLS-Collection Specialist J,YA & AV
Prince William Public Library System
13083 Chinn Park Drive
Prince William, VA 22192-5073
703-792-6251
FAX 703-792-4875
bchristolon@pwcgov.org

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:00:07 -0500
From: "Mary J. Soucie" <mjsoucie@htls.lib.il.us>
Subject: Re: The Mummy

Dear Pubyackers,
Hi! I had no clue what The Mummy was about when we went to see it last
week- other than what I'd seen here. My husband and I went to see it in a
small town theatre on a Friday night that was filled with "teeny boppers".
When "the line" came, I clapped and said woohoo! My poor husband was
shrinking in his chairs as the kids were looking around to figure out who
clapped. It was a hoot. I also realy enjoyed the movie and would
recommend it. Thanks for alerting me to this great flick. 8-)
mjs


Mary J. Soucie
Youth Services Consultant
Heritage Trail Library System
815-729-3345 x110
^mailto:mjsoucie@htls.lib.il.us

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:06:25 +0000
From: kkrenz@lib.az.us (Kami Krenz)
Subject: [none]

On May 18, Karen Sutherland wrote:
"I have appreciated some of your comments about this business. I didn't
hear Dr.Laura nor do I know what she said.....but it continues to amaze me
that we are surprised by her attack."

As it happens, I heard Dr. Laura myself one afternoon while "surfing" my
car radio while driving to pick up some books for the library at a
bookstore (not pornography). This was toward the beginning of this
controversy and was the first I had heard of any of her comments or
anything about them. She was ranting about ALA and how Intellectual
Freedom was nonexistent for others in their eyes, and suggesting that the
org. in the e mail address stood for orgasm.

My personal position is that
yes, that there are some things available for public view in some
libraries which might be questionable...but they should be dealt with at
that time. Surely a patron or staff person shouldn't be forced to look at
something offensive to them just because someone else has it visible.
Personal and parental responsibilities are necessary here. At the same time
I was extremely offended by her manner and her accusations about the
library association and profession itself. She also expressed the opinion
that all librarians nationwide were probably cowering in their boots afraid
that the ALA would come after their jobs if they dared question any stand
the organization took, and that the ALA itself was dangerous to children
and families. I am extremely proud of my profession and what we have done
for children. I don't have to agree with every policy in total or with the
ALA at all times and in all places to do this, and I am certainly not
afraid of retaliation for saying so! I don't hink Dr. Laura has ever
bothered to find out anything about what children's service is really
about, or the mission of public libraries themselves for that matter.
Sometimes a person can have a message that has some initial validity, bu is
so mired in inuendo, exaggeration, and diatribe that any truth in it is
completely lost in translation. I think that is what has happened here.
Sorry for my own rant, I had to finally say something. Now I'll shut up
and go back to work, giving people access to books they can't get anywhere
else.


- --"If, of all words of tongue and pen, the saddest are 'It might have
been', more sad are these we daily see: It is, but hadn't ought to
be."--Bret Harte, "Mrs. Judge Jenkins"

Kathleen Krenz
Special Services Librarian
Arizona St. Braille & Talking Book Library

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:06:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mary Vanstone <mvanstone@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: pubyac V1 #706

My child and the children of other library personel have always been
welcome at our library during our shift. Our Child Supervision policy is
that children under the age of three need a parents supervision in the
childrens area at all times. Children under the age of seven need a parent
who remains in the library at all times. I don't believe that having our
children at the library violates that policy. Why should our children be
restricted any more than those of the general public? Of course we are
all mindful that our children do not interupt our work. Many play on the
computers quietly taking their turn, others read and do homework. Many are
our best volunteer helpers. Shelving picture books, helping cut craft
items, etc. Many have grown up to be library pages. The kids are also
welcome in our staff room where we probably cause them more discomfort
with our conversations than they cause us. We can not make private phone
calls from our staff room phone (bill paid by library) any more than we
can use our desk phone so why does a child overhearing you upset you more
than staff members who may be in the room? As for four hours being to long
for any child to be in the library, my 8 year old child spent many four
hour Sunday shifts with me and never got bored. We have an area to watch
videos, an abundance of reading material, computers with both educational
games and internet access. So she finds plenty to do. She is often
approached by youngsters who ask her to read to them or watch their puppet
play. Most times when staff brings their children in with them it is
because their shift is starting and their husbands hasn't ended so there
is a window of about two hours or less where a caregiver wouldn't be at
home. the child is then picked up by the other parent. Ask yourself if it
is the child's presence in the library, a personal grudge against the
parent, or the child's behavior that is the cause of concern. If it is bad
behavior then you need to treat that the same way as any other child who
is misbehaving. As an aside my husband also takes our child to work with
him on occaision, he is a hard wood flooring contractor. Many of the
teachers in the school district I worked in formerly also brought children
to work with them if their childs school district had the day off.

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 13:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: carmel <carmel@ulysses.sebridge.org>
Subject: Re: library-school relations

School-public library cooperation seems to be a pervasive problem! We
constantly have children coming in for assignments with no prior notice
from the schools. The first two children that get here usually get the 4
or 5 books on the topic and everyone else is out of luck. We can
anticipate some projects that repeat every year, but not many. The worst
is the summer reading lists, that all the schools around here provide the
kids with. We try to get these ahead of time and make sure we have
copies of required books when the kids start coming in, but often
teachers include titles that are out of print and impossible to get, even
on interlibrary loan! The children's librarians in the county send
letters to each school continually asking for these lists. Some now
respond after several years cajoling. We usually photocopy the list of
the first child (or parent) that comes in with it clutched in hand. Good
luck! This one isn't easy. Marilyn Schlansky, Reed Memorial Library,
Carmel, NY

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Eva M. Davis" <eva@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: library-school relations

It's unfortunate that relations between your library and your school
district are difficult, but I for one applaud you for trying to remedy the
situation.

We have a quarterly newsletter that goes out to everyone in our community.
There have been notices in the newsletter inviting educational and/or
community groups to call the library to arrange for a tour. So, try
advertising that way. You could also call the board of education office
and ask them to disseminate this information to the schools, as part of
their own newsletter, for example. Make it widely known that your library
is open and willing to provide curriculum support, and it becomes
difficult for detractors to bad-mouth you.

My library is fortunate in that a private school and a public middle
school are located right across the street--we get a lot of class tours
and after-school visitors, and also do some outreach and curriculum
support.

Another thing you might consider is finding out who the media specialists
are at each school, and meeting with them. Do reciprocal tours--they show
you their facilities, you show them theirs. Get to know them! This will
allow you to work together on projects; even if the teachers don't tell
you what assignments are coming up, they will most surely tell their SMS,
who can then share that information with you.

Sending out homework alert forms every marking period or every semester
might be more effective than just once at the beginning of the school
year. (you could also give copies to the SMS, who could pass a copy on to
teachers at the "right" time).

Good luck!

******************************
Eva M. Davis
Young Adult Librarian
Plymouth District Library
223 S. Main St.
Plymouth, MI 48170-1687
(734) 453-0750, ext. 230
Fax: (734) 453-3501
http://www.plymouth.lib.mi.us
eva@tln.lib.mi.us

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:01:43 -0400
From: Stamford Library <slibrary@bcn.net>
Subject: re Girl named disaster book challenge

To all who responded to my book challenge call for help:
Thanks so much for your wisdom and suggestions. As usual I printed
reponses and will present them at the library board meeting tonight.
The flames have died down and there is no urgent call now to remove the
title from our shelves, but I see this episode as a wonderful
preparedness exercise.
Jennifer in the wee Stamford library

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:29:15 -0400
From: "Wendy Fries" <mythmakr@mindspring.com>
Subject: Library "daycare"

Hello:

I understand this is a moderated list. I learned of you through Kim
Heikkinen, Child Services Librarian at Franklin Library in Wisconsin. I had
a quick question, if anyone would like to reply:

Have you experienced parents dropping their children off at your library,
using it repeatedly as a sort of daycare? How do you feel about it, what do
you do about it, do you discourage it and why?

I find it crazy that people would do it, and I'd like to write an article
about the subject. If you reply, please let me know if I can quote you.
Thank you,

Wendy Fries

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vailey Oehlke <vaileyo@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
Subject: Re: library-school relations

Hello,

I'm a member of a program called School Corps developed specifically to
students and teachers of K-12 schools in our county with the resources of
the public library. One of the services we provide that has proven to be
an effective connection with teachers and media specialists is something
called "Educator Evenings." We've done them in the fall, early spring and
late summer. They take place at one of our sites. We offer training in the
library's online catalog, SearchBank (magazine database), and our web
resources and we provide information on resources that address our state's
standards-based curriculum. We also offer a tour of the library and
hands-on time during which we can provide more individualized assistance
with any of the electronic resources on which we did training. We send
flyers out to all the schools that can be redeemed at the event for a free
drink coupon from Starbucks (a highly successful strategy!). It is a great
opportunity to meet teachers and media specialists and to let them know
that we actually have resources they might find useful.



Vailey Oehlke
School Corps Librarian
Multnomah County Library
205 NE Russell, Portland, OR 97212
phone: (503)736-6047 fax: (503)248-5441
e-mail: vaileyo@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us

On Tue, 18 May 1999 QCKATIE@aol.com wrote:

> As a new reference trainee at a public library and a first-time PUBYAC
> subscriber, I would appreciate any help you cuold give me with the following
> problem: Over the past few weeks, several young adults have commented to me
> that their teachers have criticized the public library. <snip>

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:43:12 -0800 (ADT)
From: Cindy Sampson-Fleet <mscf1@nsh.library.ns.ca>
Subject: One person puppet plays

Hello, everyone.
We have always done puppet shows with two puppeteers. Now we must do some
with only one person. We are planning to adapt some of our
regular scripts but are also looking for ideas. We have books in the
collection on how to do one person puppet shows, but they don't include
scripts. Does anyone know of any good sources for these? Any stories
that adapt especially well to one person plays?
Thanks in advance.

Cindy


Cindy Sampson Fleet
Captain William Spry Public Library
Halifax, N. S. Canada
mscf1@nsh.library.ns.ca
fax: (902) 490-5741

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:56:52 EDT
From: "sara stein" <sarastein_@hotmail.com>
Subject: To Read or Not to Read? A Time Management Question

Help! I'm pretty new to the profession, and already I'm feeling overwhelmed
by the amount of professional reading involved. I know which magazines and
journals my professors have said are must-reads (along with the obvious,
like SLJ), but what I'd really like to know is what librarians in the REAL
world are reading--which magazines and journals are really helpful, which
are occasionally helpful, and most important, perhaps, which magazines and
journals I can safely ignore.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Sara Stein


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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:11:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: Holland <hollandd@sls.lib.il.us>
Subject: Re: Unattended Children (of library employees!)

I have to disagree with the desire to integrate kids into the workplace,
unless the worker owns his/her own business and does not mind putting up
with the loss of work time spent in parenting. As far as the kid in the
toll booth is concerned, I think that comes under the heading of child
abuse. As I observe it, I think that moms with kids at work have lost
sight of reality and don't realize how much time they spend
parenting--and how much time co-workers spend mollifying the little
ones. It's not the kid's fault; kids just can't be expected to amuse
themself for hours on end in the workplace without being "pesty." If the
choice is to bring the kids to work or stay home, my vote goes to staying
home until family matters are under control.

Dorothy
Elmwood Park Public Library
Youth Services
hollandd@sls.lib.il.us


On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kirsten Edwards wrote:

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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:03:39 -0700
From: "Keeney, Scott" <SKEENEY@ci.albany.or.us>
Subject: RE: Renting the Princess Bride

Don't forget that it's illegal, without expensive license
purchases, to show movies at library programs. Sad, but true: it killed
some "easy" programming and an ongoing, weekly, popular family
attraction here several years ago when our city attorney, as well as
discussion in professional journals, clarified the (il)legalities of
video usage in public libraries.

Scott Keeney
Children's Librarian work 541-917-7591
Albany Public Library fax 541-917-7586
1390 Waverly Drive SE
Albany OR 97321 skeeney@ci.albany.or.us


- -----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Purdy [mailto:rpurdy@crrl.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 8:48 AM
To: PUBYAC
Subject: Renting the Princess Bride


Our Teen Council really wants to show the Princess Bride as our end of
Summer Reading Program. Only problem is, it's not listed in the Swank
catalog. Does anyone out there know of another company that rents
movies for public performance?

Thanks,
Rebecca Purdy
Young Adult Librarian
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
rpurdy@crrl.org

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