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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: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:01:14 CST Subject: PUBYAC digest 78 PUBYAC Digest 78 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Stumper: African princess by Cynthia Bishop <cybishop44@yahoo.com> 2) stumper: Mary Poppins by Laura Whaley <WHALEYL@santacruzpl.org> 3) Help! Seeking Juv/YA title by "Erin Shepard" <ESHEPARD@waukesha.lib.wi.us> 4) stumper: summer, sisters, eating glue :-) by maureen lerch <lerchma@oplin.lib.oh.us> 5) Hudsonville library users have Web access restored by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> 6) RE: YS program stats by Betsy Bybell <bbybell@norby.latah.lib.id.us> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cynthia Bishop <cybishop44@yahoo.com> To: pubyac pubyac <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper: African princess MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:24:00 CST Hello, all. Can you help? A patron has asked for the title and author of a children's picture book she read in the early 1960's. Her father bought the book in the U.S. She remembers the book as large, with beautiful illustrations on each page. The story was folktale-like, about a beautiful, African- looking young woman with long, black, "crinkley" hair. There were twin boys, one with gold skin and one with silver. She remembers lots of water in the story, and pictures of the woman swimming underwater, her hair floating out behind. Also a frog talking to the woman. When I asked whether the boys were sun and moon, and perhaps good and evil, she said she thought it quite possible. I wondered whether the story might have been a retelling of an Isis myth. Any thought? Thanks in advance. Cynthia Bishop. Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Laura Whaley <WHALEYL@santacruzpl.org> To: "'PUBYAC'" <PUBYAC@nysernet.org> Subject: stumper: Mary Poppins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:26:35 CST I just had a patron come in looking for the Mary Poppin's book that contains a section where a bird (possibly a starling or a bluebird) enters the nursery and converses with a baby. The baby relates its birth to the bird but when the bird returns a few weeks later the baby tells how it was "brought by the stork" and other euphemisms. There is a chapter in the first book that has a sparrow visiting the nursery and talking with the twins that is very familiar but the patron is sure there is another section in one of the other books. I'm totally stumped! Laura WHALEYL@santacruzpl.org Boulder Creek Branch Library ------------------------------ From: "Erin Shepard" <ESHEPARD@waukesha.lib.wi.us> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Help! Seeking Juv/YA title Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:29:23 CST A co-worker and I were discussing books that we enjoyed as children, and he was reminiscing about one that he had read in middle school and has been searching for ever since. I told him about this list and told him i would give you a shot at helping him find it.
Here's what he remembers about the book: He read it in 1970 or 1971. It's about a group of kids on a field trip and they all are carrying bag lunches. They go through a cave and find a lost world where dinosaurs still live on the other side. There is a cave-in, and they are trapped. They find a prehistoric bird (archaeopteryx) and when they find another cave to exit through, they take the bird with them as proof of their adventure. There is another cave-in and the bird is lost. We did a search in our state library database, and found a reference to a book called Adventure in Forgotten Valley by Glyn Frewer, and he's going to ILL it to see if it is the correct one, but said the title wasn't familiar. Anyone recognize this book? ------------------------------ From: maureen lerch <lerchma@oplin.lib.oh.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: stumper: summer, sisters, eating glue :-) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:32:12 CST Hello all! We tried the folks at the fiction list listserv, so I apologize for any cross-posts. A patron is looking for a book she read when she was in 4th grade, and she is now a senior in high school. Three sisters are supposed to spend the summer with their aunt, but run away to their beach house. One is named Allegra, the other may be Alice, and the littlest one eats glue. We've checked with several childen's librarians, but it doesn't seem to ring a bell. Does it sound familiar to any of you? 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 * ------------------------------ From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> Subject: Hudsonville library users have Web access restored Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:35:51 CST Hudsonville library users have Web access restored "A day after Holland voters rejected a library Internet filtering proposal, the Hudsonville City Commission voted Wednesday to rescind a filtering ordinance and restore Internet activity at the city library." http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/022400/new_hudsonville.html
______________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/oif.html ------------------------------ From: Betsy Bybell <bbybell@norby.latah.lib.id.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: RE: YS program stats Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:38:40 CST Good morning all, I agree with many of the points that Pat Vasilik raised about staying fresh in your job. I've been in my position as Branch Coordinator for many years too and the #1 change has been the duties that shift with increasing technology and computerization. While professional contacts and organizations alleviate the sense of feeling alone, getting out of the box and looking at your job description with fresh eyes is always worthwhile. But I don't think librarians are exclusive in their degree of professional burnout. There comes a point (that's definitely connected to midlife) for some of us when we access whether or not what we've been doing up to now is how we want to spend the rest of our working career. Everyone handles that question uniquely, depending on circumstances. Statistics show that an increasing proportion of the population does not remain in the same profession anymore. For me personally, one of the most provocative books I've read (and one that helped break some boundaries) was _Is it too late to run away and join the circus? Finding the life you really want_ by Marti D. Smye. I am fortunate that family circumstances allow me the flexibility to pursue my own circus as I juggle a second career into my life while reducing hours and income at the library. Not everyone has that latitude. But I still feel stepping out of the dictates of your life and asking "What if?" is beneficial. Betsy Bybell
Branch Coordinator, Latah County Library 110 S. Jefferson, Moscow ID 83843 208-882-3925, fax 208-882-5098 email: bbybell@norby.latah.lib.id.us ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 78 *********************** |
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