From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>

To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:01:05 CST

Subject: PUBYAC digest 27

PUBYAC Digest 27

Topics covered in this issue include:

1) Re: audio cassette and book combos

by "Kelly Poole" <kpoole@lex.lib.sc.us>

2) RE: weeding (fwd)

by Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>

3) OOPS!

by Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>

4) Re: Storytime Rug

by annelmay@mailserver.franklintwp.org

5) Tracking Library Use

by Angela Reynolds <angelar@wccls.lib.or.us>

6) RE: Storytime Rug

by "lori" <lmorgan@jefferson.lib.in.us>

7) Dr.Peggy Sharp

by Bonnie Janssen <bjafrm@yahoo.com>

8) The Giver

by "Heau, Karen" <KHeau@QueensLibrary.org>

9) Stumper: The Boy Who Ate Flowers

by "Rebecca Friedmann" <rfriedmann@hotmail.com>

10) public access monitoring

by "Elizabeth Buono" <ebuono73@hotmail.com>

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From: "Kelly Poole" <kpoole@lex.lib.sc.us>

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: Re: audio cassette and book combos

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:45:17 CST

Bonnie, we only purchase Recorded Books Read Along Packs and/or Book

Tapes. Some of our reasons are because they are unabridged and have a

good replacement policy, but practically speaking another is because of

the packaging. We have ours on a book shelf. They have spine labels

just like books. Even though its not "mandated" that we only order from

Recorded Books, most branches prefer this company.

Kelly Poole

krpoole@lex.lib.sc.us

Bonnie Janssen wrote:

> How to you handle your audio cassette and book combos?

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From: Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>

To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Subject: RE: weeding (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:49:52 CST

Am I the only one who finds that publishers seem to be at least a few

years behind on subject updates? For example I'm currently looking for at

least one first aid book for our children's collection that includes such

safety issues as the need to wear gloves when coming in contact with

another person's blood. Plate Tectonics was another one that I knew needed

to be updated but I couldn't find anything new, now of course I have 3 or

4 titles with copyright dates int he last year or two.

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From: Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>

To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Subject: OOPS!

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:51:41 CST

Sorry for that last garbled message about subject area updates I meant to

cancel it so I could rewrite the message more coherently. I think I had

better stop I'm not doing any better this time either.

Julie Rines

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From: annelmay@mailserver.franklintwp.org

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: Re: Storytime Rug

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:52:42 CST

We purchased a bilingual alphabet rug in bright primary colors from

Childcraft. I believe I have also seen rugs of this type in the Demco

catalogs, but Childcraft has a better selection. We receive many

compliments about our rug, which was a gift from the Friends of the Library.

Childcraft: 1-800-631-5652

Demco: 1-800-356-1200

Anne

At 09:19 PM 12/22/99 CST, you wrote:

>We do our preschool storytimes in a very large meeting room, the only space

>we have, so we use a rug to help define the space and keep everyone

>together.

>

>We would like to buy a new rug and this time we would like something "fun"!

>Has anyone found a great storytime rug with a childlike design, bright

>colors, geometric shapes, etc? If so, where did you buy it? (We have ruled

>out the kinds with roads and game boards as too busy and distracting.)

>

>Any suggestions you have would be appreciated, we haven't found anything

>suitable in the stores in our area.

>

>

>Janet Van De Carr

>Park Ridge Public Library

>Park Ridge, Il 60068

>mailto:jvandcar@park-ridge.lib.il.us

>

>

Anne Lemay

Franklin Township Library

Somerset NJ

annelmay@franklintwp.org

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From: Angela Reynolds <angelar@wccls.lib.or.us>

To: "'PUBYAC'" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>

Subject: Tracking Library Use

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:53:45 CST

I've gotten a grant to provide books for agencies that serve low-income

families. Part of the grant includes a free book coupon redeemable at the

library. The grantee wants me to track if those people then become regular

library users. Short of being a library police and spying on their records,

which I consider an invasion of privacy, I'm not coming up with a good idea

of how to do this. Has anyone done a similar project and do you have any

tips for me? TIA---

Angela J. Reynolds

Youth Services Librarian

Washington County Cooperative Library Services

P.O. Box 5129

Aloha, OR 97006

503-466-1894 fax: 503-615-6601

angelar@wccls.lib.or.us

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From: "lori" <lmorgan@jefferson.lib.in.us>

To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Subject: RE: Storytime Rug

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:54:51 CST

The demco/highsmith catalog has some large rugs you might want to look at.

Also, at PLA/ALA there have been some suppliers with these types of rugs.

Lori Morgan, Jeffersonville Twn. Public Library, IN

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From: Bonnie Janssen <bjafrm@yahoo.com>

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: Dr.Peggy Sharp

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:55:54 CST

Has anyone attending one of Dr Peggy Sharp's Seminars?

The literature makes her sound pretty exciting. It

also sounds like the presentation is mainly geared to

school librarians and teachers. Anyone from a public

library have any comments after seeing her? You can

respond to me directly at bjanssen@aclibrary.org.

Thanks Bonnie Janssen,

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From: "Heau, Karen" <KHeau@QueensLibrary.org>

To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org '" <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Subject: The Giver

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Jeri:

_The Cure_ by Sonia Levitin has a similar premise to _The Giver_, although

the portion that takes place in the future is not as compelling and fleshed

out as the major portion of the novel, which takes place in 14th century

Stuttgart. Check it out -- a very strong read.

Karen Heau

Young Adult Librarian

Flushing Library

Queens Borough Public Library

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From: "Rebecca Friedmann" <rfriedmann@hotmail.com>

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: Stumper: The Boy Who Ate Flowers

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:58:19 CST

Dear collective brains,

A 40-year-old patron is interested in finding a copy of (or more information

on) a picture book. He is fairly certain is was called The Boy Who Ate

Flowers. He read it in the 60's as a child, but doesn't know how old it was

at the time. It was about a boy who would eat nothing but flowers, and his

parents tried to make him eat other things. It doesn't appear in Amazon.com

(I searched with multiple word combinations) or BIP.

Any ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance and happy holidays

:)

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and

can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

--unknown

"Imagination is as important as knowledge. Share yours with

others."

--unknown

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* Rebecca Friedmann, MLS *

* Children's Librarian *

* Union Township Library *

* 7900 Cox Rd. *

* West Chester, OH 45069 *

*(513)777-3131; (513)777-8452 [fax]*

* rfriedmann@hotmail.com *

* rfriedmann@mail.mpl.lib.oh.us *

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From: "Elizabeth Buono" <ebuono73@hotmail.com>

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: public access monitoring

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:59:23 CST

This is a message for Sue in Santa Monica, who emailed me off-list about how

to monitor users on the Internet--keeping track of how long they have been

on. Actually, our computer services supervisor gave me the web address of

one kind of software that does that--if you (or anyone else, for that

matter) are interested, I can give you the address off list--I just lost

your email! I must have deleted it somehow. But I'll save the information

until I hear from you, one way or the other.

Happy Holidays!

Elizabeth Buono

Children's Librarian

The Ferguson Library

1 Public Library Plaza

Stamford, CT 06904

<ebuono73@hotmail.com>

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