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From: PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children <pubyac@prairienet.org> To: PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children <pubyac@prairienet.org> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:01:04 CST Subject: PUBYAC digest 12 PUBYAC Digest 12 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: In case you might want to help out a library student. Grace by Karen Strauss <karens@sfpl.lib.ca.us> 2) Re: reaching the homebound by Belinda Sakowski <sakowski@grayson.edu> 3) Re: reaching the homebound by Carol Hoke <hoke@crpl.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us> 4) Re: home soil by "Grace Slaughter" <gslaughter@bham.lib.al.us> 5) web classes for kids by steven engelfried <stevene@dpls.lib.or.us> 6) Re: 50 States Books by "J&B Marsh" <jmarsh@pcisys.net> 7) Re: Holiday Craft Ideas by ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au 8) interview questions by Anita Beaman <abeaman@yahoo.com> 9) Re: Teen Book Discussion Groups by "Paul Christopherson" <paulcya@hotmail.com> 10) books for group by "Jeanenne Reid Robinson" <jrrchild@hotmail.com> 11) mold - science fair by "Catherine E. Ingram" <ceingram@starbase1.htls.lib.il.us> 12) BIB: Diabetes Bibliography by ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au 13) City Storytime by "Look, Lin" <llook@city.newport-beach.ca.us> 14) Christmas rocking horse stumper by BCPL_MARY@4cty.org 15) Teen mystery nights by "pia butcher" <piabutch@hotmail.com> 16) HIT: Disney by Su Epstein <SuE@gfacademy.org> 17) Cheese Peas and Chocolate pudding by "Linda Spear" <Linda.Spear@euclid.lib.oh.us> 18) Fwd: Media by MEM4Books@aol.com 19) stumper: elephant ears by "PAT MARTIN, RED WING PUBLIC LIBRARY, MINNESOTA" <PATM@selco.lib.mn.us> 20) Re: reaching the homebound by "Joanne Head" <jhead@nsy.library.ns.ca> 21) Re: reaching the homebound by annelmay@mailserver.franklintwp.org 22) Re: Scholastic kit for HP by Judy T Nelson <judynels@kcls.org> 23) special education students by Lyn Persson <lpersson@nslsilus.ORG> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Karen Strauss <karens@sfpl.lib.ca.us> To: <"SFPL::GRACER"@sfpl.lib.ca.us> Subject: Re: In case you might want to help out a library student. Grace Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:20:20 CST Grace - Most of the information she's looking for might be found by submitting these questions to the bookmobile listserve (BKMOB-L) maintained by Clarion Univ. (Penn.) and the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship. I'll be happy to share information with her about Library on Wheels and Friends for Life. Karen ------------------------------ From: Belinda Sakowski <sakowski@grayson.edu> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: reaching the homebound Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:42:35 CST Hello Joyce, Our library has set up a schedule with the nursing homes in our area. Once a month a volunteer brings a selection of books, books on tape, cassettes etc. Someone from the nursing/retirement home checks them out to the residents. We try to provide a variety of genres and will take requests. All materials are checked out in the nursing home's name and they are responsible for losses and damages. We do not have a bookmobile. Our volunteers are assigned certain facilities to pick up and deliver materials. There is a checklist of what is sent out. Materials go out for a month. Hope this helps.
At 05:03 PM 11/30/99 CST, you wrote: >Hello to all and thanks to everyone who helped me with my report on >storyhour in public libraries. I am looking for information on public >libraries reaching out to the sick or elderly homebound patrons. Do you >have a program in existence? Are you planning one? Can you tell me >something about it? How it is run, volunteers, budget, etc. Do you have >a bookmobile? Would you know of any written articles that may be >available on this subject? >Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. I really appreciate it. Joyce >McKenney > > > Belinda Sakowski E-Mail: sakowski@grayson.edu Sherman Public Library Phone: (903)892-7240 421 N. Travis Fax: (903) 892-7101 Sherman, Texas 75090 ------------------------------ From: Carol Hoke <hoke@crpl.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: reaching the homebound Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:56:20 CST >Hello to all and thanks to everyone who helped me with my report on >storyhour in public libraries. I am looking for information on public >libraries reaching out to the sick or elderly homebound patrons. Do you >have a program in existence? Are you planning one? Can you tell me >something about it? How it is run, volunteers, budget, etc. Do you have >a bookmobile? Would you know of any written articles that may be >available on this subject? >Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. I really appreciate it. Joyce >McKenney Our library has a program called Books by Mail which is funded and staffed by volunteers from the Friends. Patrons call the library with requests for specific titles or kinds of books and they are located and mailed out with return envelopes addressed and stamped.
Carol Hoke Children's Services Manager Cedar Rapids Public Library 500 1st St. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 Hoke@crpl.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us 319-398-5123 ------------------------------ From: "Grace Slaughter" <gslaughter@bham.lib.al.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: home soil Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:08:17 CST Sorry, Erin. I understand what Tracy was trying to say, also; but as much as I would like to, I cannot agree with you completely because, you see, the consequences of war on "home soil" lasts for generations. If you want to talk about war in America on its home soil or ethnic cleansing, check out some American Indian history. Try the Trail of Tears. There is a good site on this subject at http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/ On that same page is history about the Civil War. Sherman plowed war into the soil of Georgia, planting total devastation. Life was changed forever. I moved to Alabama when I was five --old/young enough to witness Southern apartheid and plenty old/young enough to witness the civil disobedience/unrest of the Civil Rights Movement. It is only through the leadership of Dr. King that it did not become a bloody revolution. Still, it had its bombings, its assassinations, its property destruction -- all of which, although not witnessed by me, did affect me. If you think that conflict like that is all in the past, that American is free of the taint of ethnic elimination, look at your daily paper or news show. There are regular stories of current American internal conflicts where one group objects to the looks, lifestyle, philosophy of another group. This is not necessarily blacks and whites, but one group or another against homosexuals or skinheads or some other "different" group. Often snipers target a group for elimination. Don't kid yourself. We have our own ethnic cleansing. It may not be governmentally directed as in Eastern Europe. It may not be narrowly focussed on one particular group. It may not be organized. It may not be funded enough to bring out the big guns. But we, as a nation, have daily conflicts, examples of hate directed destruction. It's just not organized enough to call war, yet. If you have not experienced American-style ethnic cleansing, get down on your knees and give thanks--for yourself and your children and your children's children and on to the seventh generation. The grief of ethnic destruction lasts for generations. I know because, you see, I am Cheyenne. Be wary of complacency. grace EH wrote: > To support Tracy -- > I do understand what she is saying. Unlike many other > countries and continents our nation has not been bombed, our buildings > destroyed, your neighborhoods set afire night-after-night, day-after-day > by an agressor internally or externally. We can debate how "easy" life > has been, or whether we all personally experienced losses or > devastation during wars on other soils, or whether or not some living in > poor inner cities may feel as though they are living in a war zone and all > that but I believe that her point was the none of us can claim to have > LIVED in a WAR ZONE (with bombs, planes, tanks, fires, chemicals, troops > etc.) in our own NATION on our own SOIL in our own HOMES for months or > years - like so many others have in other places. I think we can all agree > to that. Please? :) > > ERIN > > @*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@*^@ > {/}{/} {/}{/} > {/{}/} Erin V. Helmrich, M.L.S. {/{}/} > {/}{/} Youth Services/Young Adult Librarian {/}{/} ------------------------------ From: steven engelfried <stevene@dpls.lib.or.us> To: "'PUBYAC@prairienet.org'" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: web classes for kids MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:20:59 CST We've been offering classes for kids on the Internet for a few months. They've been pretty generic so far. One Web Introduction for Kids, another geared towards Families, a "Cool Web Sites for Kids," and an "Internet Scavenger Hunt." We're planning to add one on "Homework Sites." Is anyone else having success with Web classes on different topics for ages 8-14? I thought about doing one on "How to Make a Free Web Page," using Geocities or one of the other free sites, but I'm not sure if that will work well in a classroom. Has anyone tried that? Or any other new Web class that's been popular and successful? If you respond to me, I'll post a list of successful kids' web classes to the list.... - Steven Engelfried, Children's Librarian Deschutes Public Library System, Bend Branch 601 NW Wall Street Bend, OR 97701 ph: 541-617-7072 fax: 541-617-7073 e-mail: stevene@dpls.lib.or.us ------------------------------ From: "J&B Marsh" <jmarsh@pcisys.net> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Re: 50 States Books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:34:43 CST Lisa, I bought the set for my K-5 school library, and I find the students check them out for pleasure reading! I think that's a pretty strong recommendation. They are attractive and informative, particularly suited for elementary schools. Jeanne Marsh Abrams Elementary School Ft. Carson, CO ---------- > From: Webster, Lisa <LisaW@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us> > To: 'PUBYAC@prairienet.org' > Subject: 50 States Books > Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 12:55 PM > > Does anyone have the One Nation Books series of the fifty states? What do > you think of them? We need to order a new set of state books for our > collection. Any others that are exceptional? > > Thank you! > > Lisa Webster > Mount Vernon City Library > lisaw@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us ------------------------------ From: ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Holiday Craft Ideas Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:54:54 CST Check out Parramatta City Library's Kid's web site for some links to great craft web sites. The ideas range from really basic pre school things to those more in depth and suitable for teens. The address to find the links is: http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au/thingstodo.htm Hope this is useful Sarah Steed Children's Librarian Parramatta City Library ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au Visit our Web Site : http://www.ParraCity.nsw.gov.au ------------------------------ From: Anita Beaman <abeaman@yahoo.com> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: interview questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:14:21 CST A recent posting about becoming a better children's librarian referred to another recent posting that contained interview questions. I missed the questions, and the archives are unsearchable right now. Does anyone have this posting? I'm getting ready to interview and would really appreciate any help you can offer! You can reply to the list or to me personally: abeaman@yahoo.com Thanks, Anita Beaman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Paul Christopherson" <paulcya@hotmail.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Teen Book Discussion Groups Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:29:51 CST Rachel, I currently lead a 6th-High School book discussion group. I started with about 8 7th graders which came from local school media specialists and a number of them are still with us after 2 years. Currently we have mostly freshmen and sophomores in High School. We average 8-10 per meeting and a total of 16 in the group. At our last meeting we decided to also include 6th graders since the middle schools in our area is made up of 6-7-8th. We meet on Sunday afternoons once a month. The books we read are selected by the teenagers themselves. We produce a quarterly newsletter which is going to a web format, a monthly booklist, and have an occasional fun social activity. Paul Christopherson Young Adult Librarian Millard Branch Library paulc@hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: "Jeanenne Reid Robinson" <jrrchild@hotmail.com> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: books for group Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:13:34 CST
I am planning a book discussion group for children in 4th -6th grade. Does anyone have favorite books they have used in book groups with children in the above grades? If so, would you e-mail me. I'll post my responses on the listserve. Thanks in advance, Jeanenne Robinson Jrrchild@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: "Catherine E. Ingram" <ceingram@starbase1.htls.lib.il.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: mold - science fair MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:24:43 CST
Hello! I was hoping some of your might have some good book titles for books that deal with mold. You know: "the bread mold project"! I have a couple so so ones, but I have a hard time finding good books. I can send them to some of the encyclopedias. But teachers often have a limit on those. Any titles you could recommend would be great! Catherine ----------------------------------------------------------------- | *opinions are my own* | | Catherine E. Ingram, M.L.S. Joliet Public Library | | Young Adult Librarian 150 N. Ottawa St. | | ceingram@htls.lib.il.us Joliet, IL 60432 | | phone: 815-740-2660 http://www.joliet.lib.il.us | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: BIB: Diabetes Bibliography Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:45:25 CST Thanks to everyone for your help the enquiry for resources to help a teenage diabetic deal with his situation. My collegue was most impressed and grateful for the responses. For anyone interested, here is the list. Fiction: Needles Andie Dominick Between A Rock And A Hard Place Alden R Carter My Aunt Ruth Iris Rosofsky Next To Strangers Sheri C Sinykin The Warrior's Apprentice Lois Bujold (this is not about diabetes, but approaches the idea of dealing with a medical condition) Non-Fiction: In Control: A Guide For Teens With Diabetes Jean Betschart The Diabetic Male's Essential Guide To Living Well Joseph Juliano Diabetes For Dummies Alan Rubin, M.D. (Dummies series) Diabetes Elizabeth Ferber Diabetes A To Z: What You Need To Know About Diabetes: Simply Put Sugar Isn't Everything: A Support Book, in Fiction Form, for the Young Diabetic Willo Davis Roberts The Sun, the Rain, and the Insulin : Growing Up with Diabetes Joan MacCracken Clinical Management of the Child and Teenager with Diabetes Leslie Plotnick, M.D. and Randi Henderson Internet: http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/ Children With Diabetes web site includes information on juvenile diabetes and a mailing list for teens, plus a list of recommended books. http://www.clpgh.org/clp/Childrens/disable/diabet.htm Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh diabetes book list Sarah Steed Children's Librarian Parramatta City Library ssteed@parracity.nsw.gov.au Visit our Web Site : http://www.ParraCity.nsw.gov.au ------------------------------ From: "Look, Lin" <llook@city.newport-beach.ca.us> To: "'PUBYAC'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: City Storytime MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:07:39 CST Our performer stopped by and dropped off her program outline. She had done a 'City Storytime' for a local museum. Thanks to Patti Cheney for reminding me! Read WAKE UP CITY by Alvin Tresselt Song WHEELS ON THE BUS Read ONE AFTERNOON by Yumi Heo Audience participation THE TOWN OF QUIET COVE (follows) Action THE SKYSCRAPER ELEVATOR (don't have the action, but it could be the one sent by Susan Stone: "Here is a suggestion. I usually use this with infants but I think > it could be adapted for preschoolers.Maybe have them crouch and slowly > rise and then crouch down again at the end: > > Let's go riding on an elevator > Let's go riding on an elevator > Let's go riding on an elevator > 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor, 4th floor, 5th floor (pause) > Down, down, down, down, down! > > With the babies I have their parents lift them and then lower them but it > could be sort of like Noble Duke of York." > Read NIGHT CITY by Monica Wellington Paper folding story THE RAINHAT THE TOWN OF QUIET COVE Once upon a time, long ago, there was a pleasant little town called Quiet Cove. It stood on the banks of a wide lazy river. If you listened on a quiet afternoon, you could hear a rowboat on the river go ______; a cow in the field say ________; a horse in the stable say ______; a cat on the porch say, _____; grandmother's rocking chair go ______; and once in a while a boy would whistle _______. A long time went by, and the people of Quiet Cove heard a new noise. It was a train. It went ______. All the people wanted to ride the train that said, ______. Now on a quiet afternoon in Quiet Cove, you could hear a train say _______; a rowboat go ________; a cow say _____(etc.) great-grandmother's rocking chair go ______; and once in a while (etc) Many years went by and the people of Quiet Cove heard a new noise. It was a car. It went _______. People wanted to ride in the car that said _______. Now, on a quiet afternoon in Quiet Cove you could hear a car say ______; a train say _______; a rowboat say _______ (etc. Now it's great-great grandmother) Before many years went by, many new noises came to Quiet Cove, one right after the other. A trolley said _______; a fire siren said _______; trucks going up a hill said _______; a policeman's whistle went ________; a drill went _____; and an airplane overhead went ______; "Why do they call this town Quiet Cove?" a boy named Andrew asked. It really should be called Noisy Big City! Well, his mother said, getting close so that he could hear. A long, long time ago, in the days of your great-great-great grandmother, on a quiet afternoon in Quiet Cove, you could hear the rowboat on the river go _____; the cows in the field say ______; (etc) Andrew said ______; but unfortunately no one in Quiet Cove heard him because the train went ______; the cars went _______; the trolley went ____; (etc.) Should we change the name of Quiet Cove? Enjoy, Lin ------------------------------ From: BCPL_MARY@4cty.org To: PUBYAC@PRAIRIENET.ORG Subject: Christmas rocking horse stumper Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:22:34 CST Since you have always managed to amaze us with your collective wisdom and ability to answer the most difficult stumpers, we are appealing to your collective wisdom with a question about a Christmas picture book. We are told that the story may date back to the early 60's. In it, a child wishes for a rocking horse for Christmas, but the Father must shop on Christmas Eve, and finds only one shop open. In the shop, he buys the perfect rocking horse from a man who resembles Santa Claus. When he looks for the store the next day, it has vanished. We are hoping that this rings Christmas bells with someone. Thank you in advance for your help! MaryAnn Karre Broome County Public Library bcpl_mary@4cty.org ------------------------------ From: "pia butcher" <piabutch@hotmail.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Teen mystery nights Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:37:04 CST Hello Pubyaccers! Thanks to everyone that sent me information regarding my two stumpers. Firstly the book about the bear with the kitten was Be gentle by Virginia Miller. Secondly, thanks for all of the toilet training books. If anyone wants the list let me know and I will send it to you. Now to my next query. Has anyone used the teen mystery kits that are available from Amazon? Someone mentioned them last week so I looked them up. However there isn't much information about them. Is there anything else available like these? (A kit that gives the characters etc) Thanks for all of your help. Please post directly to me or to the list. Pia Butcher Youth Services Librarian Croydon Library Melbourne Australia ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: Su Epstein <SuE@gfacademy.org> To: "'Pubyac'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: HIT: Disney MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:52:11 CST Hello, Thanks to all who have replied! I think we found it -or at least have somewhere to go with it! For those of you interested or curious (or non-Disney fans...) see: 1. the ZINE -MURDER CAN BE FUN -- one of the issues was titled DEATH AT DISNEYLAND. http://www.chiprowe.com/zinerev/mcbf.html author's name is John Marr. 2. Hiaasen, Carl. Team rodent : how Disney devours the world / Carl Hiassen. New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. 3. Disney : the Mouse betrayed : greed, corruption, and children at risk / Peter Schweizer, Rochelle Schweizer. Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade byNational Book Network, c1998. 4. Disneyland Hostage by Eric Wilson (fiction) Thanks again. Su Su Epstein Director of Library Services Greens Farms Academy Greens Farms, CT Sue@gfacademy.org ------------------------------ From: "Linda Spear" <Linda.Spear@euclid.lib.oh.us> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: Cheese Peas and Chocolate pudding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:07:05 CST I have a patron who was looking for the story Cheese, Peas and Chocolate Pudding. I found the book for her, but I remember seeing a flannelboard of it (with patterns) somewhere, perhaps as long as twenty years ago. I've searched all of our flannel idea books, and can't find it. Can anyone help me on this one? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: MEM4Books@aol.com To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: Fwd: Media MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:22:38 CST This forward is one of the responses to my question of where I could find an index of illustration styles found in picture books. Other suggested sources were: 1. The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 1999, ALA, ISBN 0-8389-3495-1 2. "The Media Used in Caldecott Picture Books" JOYS Winter 1988 (p178). Thanks very much to those who responded. Mary Ellen Middleton mem4books@aol.com
In my resource, "Picture Books for Young Adults" (Greenwood Press, 1997), I note media and artistic styles of the books included. Many illustrators tend to work with the same medium and in the same style again and again. This may help you become familiar with media and style. While "Picture This" only has annotations for 424 books, I think it is a good jumping off place for media and artistic style. Also, I have recently developed a website (temporarily housed on Geocities) that is DEDICATED to picture books. The URL is http://www.geocities.com/dimatulka. The site is called "Picturing Books: A Website Dedicated to Picture Books." It is under development, so I would be anxious to get some opinions. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH PUBYAC.
Hope this helps..... _____________________________________________________________________________ Denise I. Matulka Nebraska Newspaper Project University of Nebraska Libraries 209N Love Library Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 PHONE: (402) 472-2517 EMAIL: denisem@unllib.unl.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: "PAT MARTIN, RED WING PUBLIC LIBRARY, MINNESOTA" <PATM@selco.lib.mn.us> To: PUBYAC@PRAIRIENET.org Subject: stumper: elephant ears Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:37:01 CST A patron is trying to find a book that is at least 20 years old that has a group of elephants with short ears not getting along with the long-eared elephants. After they're finally getting along, they find something else different about each other to divide them again. I would appreciate it if anyone knows this book to please send me title, author information. Thank you. Pat Martin patm@selco.lib.mn.us ------------------------------ From: "Joanne Head" <jhead@nsy.library.ns.ca> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: reaching the homebound MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:52:05 CST Hi Joyce, Here at Western Counties Regional Library, we match up volunteers (Reader's Friends), with home bound patrons. We are in a rural area, and this has worked well for us. All volunteers are screened, and given an orientation. They usually live near the home bound person, and we also try to match interests. We have done follow ups and most are thrilled with the service, and many new friendships have blossomed. I tis importanat that local VON services, meals on whells and other such programs are aware of this service so they can spread the word among their homebound clients. Joanne Head jhead@nsy.library.ns.ca From: Joyce McKenney <mckenney@ctel.net> To: publib sunsite <publib@sunsite.berkeley.edu>, PUBYAC listserv <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: reaching the homebound Date sent: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:03:43 CST Send reply to: pubyac@prairienet.org Hello to all and thanks to everyone who helped me with my report on storyhour in public libraries. I am looking for information on public libraries reaching out to the sick or elderly homebound patrons. Do you have a program in existence? Are you planning one? Can you tell me something about it? How it is run, volunteers, budget, etc. Do you have a bookmobile? Would you know of any written articles that may be available on this subject? Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. I really appreciate it. Joyce McKenney
-- Joanne Head Co-ordinator Western Counties Regional Library ------------------------------ From: annelmay@mailserver.franklintwp.org To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: reaching the homebound Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:09:24 CST Re: "I am looking for information on public >libraries reaching out to the sick or elderly homebound patrons. Do you >have a program in existence?"
We read aloud once a week at the Assisted Living Center next to our library. Some of their more mobile residents visit the library, but the ones who show up regularly for our read-aloud session are either wheel-chair bound, don't walk all that well, don't see very well,etc. We started this last May with some short stories and settled into reading "Cheaper by the Dozen" by the Gilbreths, which also stimulated a lot of informal discussion. We just started a new book, Jan Karon's "At Home in Mitford", this week, and they like it very much so far. We have approximately 8 - 10 people each week, depending on what other activities are going on in the center. We tried to have a storytime with children there, but found it was hard to get patrons to go there for the storytime rather than to the library. Maybe some day! Email if you have questions. Anne Lemay Franklin Township Library Somerset, NJ At 05:03 PM 11/30/99 CST, you wrote: >Hello to all and thanks to everyone who helped me with my report on >storyhour in public libraries. I am looking for information on public >libraries reaching out to the sick or elderly homebound patrons. Do you >have a program in existence? Are you planning one? Can you tell me >something about it? How it is run, volunteers, budget, etc. Do you have >a bookmobile? Would you know of any written articles that may be >available on this subject? >Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. I really appreciate it. Joyce >McKenney > > ------------------------------ From: Judy T Nelson <judynels@kcls.org> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Scholastic kit for HP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:26:07 CST Here is the harry Potter information. It works, we received out packet a week ago. Harry Potter Activity Kit Offer Attn. Sonya Bundridge Scholastic, Inc. 555 Broadway New York, NY 10012-3999 Include a self-addresses adhesive label Judy t Nelson ------------------------------ From: Lyn Persson <lpersson@nslsilus.ORG> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: special education students MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:41:00 CST Greetings to everyone -- (and I'd like to thank Shannon for moving us all so smoothly -- this listserv is a wonderful service that's been a great help to me a number of times.) I have a request for ideas/suggestions/etc. I want to do some outreach to the special education students in the local school district (K-8). My feeling is that we don't see as many of these kids as we'd like to at the public library. Most of them are in regular classrooms, so class visits either to the library or at the school will be of limited use. I do have good support from the school district -- they will be helpful if we want to do things like mailings to the students' houses. I would like to see them all have library cards -- and to increase their participation in our summer reading programs. We're a town of roughly 27,000. I'd love to hear success stories -- things to avoid -- and/or any information or opinions about adaptive technology we might want to acquire. If there's interest I can post results to the list. Many thanks -- Lyn Persson, Wilmette (IL) Public Library lpersson@nslsilus.org fax: 847/256-6933, attention Lyn ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 12 ***********************
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