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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:59:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #734
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:28:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Susan Lafantasie <slafanta@kcls.org>
Subject: Teen Read Week
I am planning a potluck paperback/comic book swap for a program. Has
anyone tried a book swap? How did it go? Thanks!
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamara Jones <tammycjk@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Publishers with costumes
Gail, This web page has a lot of info. It tells where you can get Amelia Bedelia
as well as ther costumes.
http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/content/p121697a.shtml#tips
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:02:36 +0000
From: "Mary Moody" <mmoody@vigo.lib.in.us>
Subject: Internet Wshp. - HTML/Banner sites
Greetings,
During this summer's series of Internet Workshops I found a site that
is absolutely wonderful for working with any "aboslute beginners"
youth or adult on HTML. I used it in my last session and it was
wonderful. I printed out some of the instructions as handouts.
However since the site is interactive with activities, we kept the
pages on the overhead screen and they followed along on their
individual computer screens.
The evaluations from the children were wonderful. However my only
caution would be to have enough volunteers that are familiar with
HTML so if someone falls behind, the class can proceed. I had
two official helpers and one unofficial and all were needed.
We also made a banner to put on our site from an online banner
generator. Here are the URL's
"Web Pages for Absolute Beginners"
http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/li542871/index.html
"Banner Generator"
http://www.coder.com/creations/banner
Go to bottom of page and click "activate" to make banner
or
http://www.coder.com/creations/banner/banner-form.pl.cgi
Let me know what you think. You can email me privately, if you like.
Mary Moody
Children's Librarian
Vigo County Public Library
\0/ \0/ \0/ "Let everything that hath breath Praise the Lord!"
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:49:10 -0400
From: mellifur@tiac.net
Subject: Re: Children's magazine titles in the library
I'd add Cobblestone to this list. It's great for kids doing reports in
social studies/history. Our kids also like Kids Discover, SI for Kids, and
Zoobooks. (We have many more, but those are ones I often see on the return
cart.)
M. Neiman
mellifur@tiac.net
Welles-Turner Memorial Library
Glastonbury, CT
http://www.wtmlib.com
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my organization.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:14:47 -0600
From: Jo-Anne Cooper <wpl1@incentre.net>
Subject: suggestions for children's software
I have just received a donation of $920.00 to purchase software for our
new computer in the children's section. I am looking for suggestions of
favorite software titles for children ranging from preschool to about 12
years of age. We currently have no titles and so we are starting from
scratch. What software would you consider "must haves"? Thanks.
- --
Jo-Anne C. Cooper
Manager of Library Services
Wetaskiwin Public Library
5002 - 51 Avenue
Wetaskiwin, Alberta.
T9A 0V1
Phone 1-780-352-4055
FAX 1-780-352-3266
e-mail wpl1@ccinet.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:37:11 -0600
From: Kathleen Cain <caink@csn.net>
Subject: Re: You know you have been a librarian too long when...
Or a patron asks you for information on Francis Bacon and you head straight
for the science collection--at which point the young fella looks at you
like you're nuts and says, "but he was a twentieth-century dude, like an
artist and stuff....and he's like, dead, but not *that* old..." GEESH
again!
At 02:37 PM 6/22/99 -0500, Adelaide Rowe wrote:
>A patron asks you for books about a horse named Blaze, and you search
>under keyword Blaise......as in Pascal, GEESH!
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:47:51 -0500
From: Karen Sutherland <ksutherland@bplib.org>
Subject: Re: Children's magazine titles in the library
Hi!
When I came here I went over our entire magazine collection. I added Girl's
Life,
GamePro, Nintendo Power, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Baby Bug, Ladybug, and
Disney
Adventures. All are popular, particularly the gaming magazines, and circulate
frequently.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:29:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Chana Lajcher - for Stumpers <chana@avoda.jct.ac.il>
Subject: Re: You know you have been a librarian too long when...
When a telephone market surveyor asks you a few questions
and you reply that if they'll phone back tomorrow you'll have
the answers for them.
Chana Lajcher - Reference Librarian
Jerusalem College of Technology
Machon Lev
Jerusalem, Israel
chana@avoda.jct.ac.il
>
> Adelaide Rowe wrote:
>
> > A patron asks you for books about a horse named Blaze, and you search
> > under keyword Blaise......as in Pascal, GEESH!
>
> with respect, Miss
>
> You know etc when you know that
> 1 Authors are filed under surname
> so
> 2 Virgil is filed under M
> (yup - a certain University library in Dublin in the dim & distant
past)
>
> Eoin Bairéad
> Dublin, Ireland
>
> I suppose I'd better explain that his name was Publius Virgillius Maro -
> ECB
>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:55:12 -0700
From: "Ruth Grant" <RGrant1@mail.ci.tucson.az.us>
Subject: Is A Kiss Just A Kiss
My message kept getting bounced from Ajoke's address, so here's my response to
the Gay and Lesbian display:
>Dear Ajoke:
My first thought is that this is about sex, which is always an explosive issue.
Rather than "censorship," staff should be concerned with
appropriateness of any display. So many gay and lesbian friends I have spoken
with say, "We are so much more than just the way we have sex!" Having
a display with 2 males in a passionate kiss is waving a banner in peoples'
faces, daring them to react. I just went to a wonderful talk by Chastity Bono
where she said, in reponse to a question about activism in the everyday life of
gays and lesbians, something along the lines of: "just be yourself, be your
true normal human self. You don't need to flaunt or carry your gayness as a
badge, but don't hide it either." I think she would have thought the
picture on display "flaunting."
Personnally I don't think the administration was censoring. They were reacting
to appropriateness. We always have a display for Gay and Lesbian month every
June, and I have never seen anything like the picture you describe. We have a
strong and active gay and lesbian services committee backed by the director and
even the mayor, and one usually outspoken member commented on the event in your
library that "some people just create their own problems."
Hope this helps, and good luck.
Ruth Grant
Librarian
Tucson-Pima Public Library
Arizona
rgrant1@ci.tucson.az.us
(520) 791-9343
These are my opinions, and not necessarily those of Tucson-Pima Public Library,
Thank you.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:16:44 -0400
From: "Inge Saczkowski" <isaczkow@niagarafalls.library.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Publishers with costumes
Regarding costume characters: Check the publisher of the book, check
theeir catalogue and it will give you anumber for booking the costume.
Some are free, most are not. We have had successful (very) Arthur days,
Clifford, Waldo, Franklin the Turtle and of course Curious George. It's a
really good way to attract some new patrons to your Library. You can often
get the costumes free if you run your character day in conjunction with a
local bookstore. Have fun, just remember that they are VERY hot to wear!
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:10:06 -0400
From: Carol Chatfield <cchatfield@myriad.middlebury.edu>
Subject: Summer Reading Prizes
We are using reading logs and also doing books by the pound for those
who don't care to write down titles. A bank came to us and asked to
sponsor our program, so we are giving tee shirts halfway through the
summer and a paperback book at the end of the summer. We have no quota
and ask only that they show us their reading log with some entries in it
a few days before the giveaway days. The shirts seem to be the big
draw. We've already signed up 90 kids over the total number we had for
the whole summer last year.
Carol Chatfield Ilsley Public Library Middlebury, Vermont
cchatfield@myriad.middlebury.edu
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:08:05 -0500
From: "Sanning, Lisa" <sannil@sosmail.state.mo.us>
Subject: Burt's request for info.
Evidently, Mr. Burt is sending similar letters to libraries around the
country. The Missouri State Library got one today. It's been made a
priority and everyone is to search their memories and electronic files for
incidents relating to pornography and the internet so we can send the
information back as quickly as possible. I can't really think of anything
nice to say about this request, so I'll bite my tongue and not say anything
at all. Others of you will probably begin seeing letters citing your
states' 'Sunshine' laws as justification for his request.
Opinions not expressed are my own.
Lisa R. Sanning
Reference Librarian
Wolfner Library for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:52:39 -0500
From: Karen Stanley <kstanley@rosenberg-library.org>
Subject: Re: Letter from David Burt, Filtering Facts
He's already requested this info from many libraries around the country.
Some have responded that there's been no formal complaints filed, some
have responded with internal memos with which David Burt compiled a
summary of his horrible "finds", some have refused his request and are
in consultation with their attorneys. There's been quite a bit
published here and there. David Burt is a librarian whose motives I've
personally questioned several times.
Karen Stanley
Rosenberg Library
Galveston, TX
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