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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: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:01:19 CDT Subject: PUBYAC digest 179 PUBYAC Digest 179 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Need help fast! by "Miriam Neiman" <Neiman@glasct.org> 2) balloon stories by "Dorothy Holzman" <dorothyh@eauclaire.lib.wi.us> 3) RE: Funniest Reference Question Request by "Denise P. Stout" <dpstout@ccls.org> 4) RE: Harry Potter Americanization by Teri Titus <titust@pls.lib.ca.us> 5) Summer Reading Prizes by Teresa Lambert <lamberte@oplin.lib.oh.us> 6) Re:Summer Reading Program by "Gail Roberts" <groberts@sailsinc.org> 7) Re: Death stalks Harry Potter in 640-page tale by Angelina Benedetti <angelina@kcls.org> 8) Video Stumper by Claire Isaac <cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca> 9) Harry Potter in Chicago by bwilliams@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us (Bina Williams) 10) Re: Funniest Reference Question Request by Christine Neirink <cneirink@vlc.lib.mi.us> 11) ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> 12) Re: Summer Reading Prizes by PIKLY@aol.com 13) New Hampshire Library Faces Suit over Filter Policy by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> 14) Re: HP jeopardy questions by "M. Neiman" <mellifur@tiac.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Miriam Neiman" <Neiman@glasct.org> To: <yalsa-bk@ala.org>, <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Need help fast! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:39:54 CDT My supervisor just came up to me and asked me for names of one or two magazines I want to add in my YA area. But I need the information today. We already have Seventeen, Teen, Teen People, and ESPN. I'm looking to add something for boys and away from the entertainment/movies/music areas. My first suggestion is Mad. Beyond that, I'm looking at Transworld Skateboarding, Gamepro, or Electronic Gaming Weekly. (Due to other posts on these newsgroups, I'm choosing not to go with Thrasher.) If you have an opinion on these magazines or can tell me how they circ in your library, please let me know. I need the information by Friday at 6:00 P.M. Thanks, and I apologize for both the short notice and the cross-posting. Miriam
The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer. Miriam Neiman YA/Reference Librarian/Web Page Mistress Welles-Turner Memorial Library Glastonbury, CT http://www.wtmlib.com ------------------------------ From: "Dorothy Holzman" <dorothyh@eauclaire.lib.wi.us> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: balloon stories Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:44:13 CDT Do any of you wonderful people out there know of any stories where one makes a balloon animal / sculpture while the story is told? I would like to try this, but I haven't been able to find anything good. I checked in the books that we have on making balloon animals (by Ralph Dewey, Roger Siegel, and Jimmy Davis) and only found one about an orange mouse, which was more chatter than story. Please respond directly to me (dorothyh@eauclaire.lib.wi.us) before July 14 with any ideas you may have. Thank you so much in advance.
Dorothy Holzman Library Associate, Youth Services L. E. Phillips Mem. Public Library 400 Eau Claire St. Eau Claire, WI 54701 715-839-5007 fax: 715-839-3822 email: dorothyh@eauclaire.lib.wi.us ------------------------------ From: "Denise P. Stout" <dpstout@ccls.org> To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: RE: Funniest Reference Question Request MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:45:40 CDT Your request for the actual inventor of the wheel made me remember the time I was asked for the inventor of fire..........OY! ------------------------------ From: Teri Titus <titust@pls.lib.ca.us> To: "Denise I. Matulka" <dimatulka@alltel.net> Subject: RE: Harry Potter Americanization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:47:12 CDT
A 14 year-old letter-writer to the SF Chronicle agrees.... Letters to Datebook 6/27/00... so there is hope... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/27/DD45043.DTL Editor -- I would like to share my opinion regarding the Harry Potter books, having read all three. Yes, they're fun to read, and yes, they're funny and exciting, but no, they're not very good in terms of quality. I'll bet most fans are unaware that the Philosopher's Stone, Nicholas Flameby, mandrakes and the Basilisk, among other story elements, were not invented by J.K. Rowling. And the ending to the first book is remarkably like the one of Lloyd Alexander's ``The Book of Three.'' Serious fantasy-book readers should consider reading Lloyd Alexander and Philip Pullman along with J.K. Rowling. Yes, I will read the fourth book, and sure, I'll like it, but I'll know that Harry Potter does to fantasy literature what Disney does to the original stories it adapts -- simplifies them. ) ( ---------------^-^-------------------------------- '!' 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 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_^^ysTeri-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ------------------------------ From: Teresa Lambert <lamberte@oplin.lib.oh.us> To: pubyac listserve <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Summer Reading Prizes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:48:44 CDT I feel that giving prizes for summer reading has many benefits. First, it is fun! I myself enjoy "winning" something, or being rewarded for something just for the fun of it. The more often we can connect the words fun & library, the better. I believe that it is a good way to let the kids know how important reading is in our society. When I go for school visits, I let the kids know that businesses who support the program with prizes understand the importance of reading and want to encourage them to do so. I also feel strongly that "luring" kids into the library for a variety of reasons, prizes, programs, good books, computers etc., will help them to build a life long relationship with libraries and reading. My teen age sons still have many of their "prizes" such as buttons and book marks from our summer reading program ten years ago. A small prize can be a great treasure to a child, especially when it holds a memory. Some impressions last a life time, and I think that the impression is more important than how it got there. Terry Lambert, Childrens Services, Bluffton Public Library Bluffton, Ohio 45817
------------------------------ From: "Gail Roberts" <groberts@sailsinc.org> To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Re:Summer Reading Program MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_006B_01BFE2AB.0B895DA0" Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:49:55 CDT This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_006B_01BFE2AB.0B895DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have to agree with Andrea. I had read "Ruined by Rewards", and tried = to cut back on the number of incentives being given. But the population = in this city is also blue-collar, with a relatively high poverty level, = drop-out rate, and illiteracy rate. So this summer, the staff talked me = into providing lots of material incentives for the kids. The business = community was appealed to, and, as a result, we offer a free paperback = for 5 hours of reading ( the Friends pay for these), and, thanks to a = local game shop, a pack of Pokemon cards for 10 hours of reading (they = rush to sign up after hearing that!). The top boy and girl reader at = each branch and from the bookmobile get a trophy, donated by a local = trophy shop, will get interviewed on the local AM radio station, and we = chose one name from those 12 to get a $100 savings bond. The local = Domino's Pizza franchise has a reading program that they've blended in = with ours, so the kids get a free pizza for every 10 books they read. = The good readers will read anyway, and our registration rate is up so = far this year. Reluctant readers seem to need the incentives to keep = going. Typically we get about 400 kids involved in the summer reading = program, which seems small for a city of over 90,000, so we'll see if = having all these incentives makes that number go up. Our only problem = so far is that some children aren't allowed to have Pokemon cards, so I = have to come up with a substitute 10-hour prize. "The soul is healed by being with children." Dostoevsky Gail E. Roberts groberts@sailsinc.org Coordinator of Youth Services New Bedford Free Public Library New Bedford, MA 02740 ------------------------------ From: Angelina Benedetti <angelina@kcls.org> To: Bina Williams <bwilliams@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us> Subject: Re: Death stalks Harry Potter in 640-page tale MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:51:11 CDT
Am I allowed to vent that I believe that there is something very wrong in this world when the same director who did the Home Alone movies and the Goonies gets a crack at Harry Potter?
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bina Williams wrote: > LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - The fourth Harry Potter book, which goes on sale > on July 8, is a massive 640 pages long and features the death of a favourite > character, author Joanne Rowling said in an interview on Friday. > Harry Potter has spent 98 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was on > the cover of Time magazine and is now to star in a Hollywood film with an > all-British cast.
> The film is to be made with Christopher Columbus as director and is expected > to be released next year. ------------------------------ From: Claire Isaac <cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Video Stumper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:52:34 CDT
Is there a video version of "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry? I have checked the Internet Movie Database. Please respond directly to me at cisaac@rpl.regina.sk.ca Thanks Claire Isaac Regina Public Library
------------------------------ From: bwilliams@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us (Bina Williams) To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Harry Potter in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:54:00 CDT
My guess is that the paper on Friday or Thursday will have a big piece on who is doing what in Chicago. I would recommend looking on the www.bookweb.org and going into the directory for bookstores, Chicago, This site is the American Booksellers Association web page. They list INDEPENDENT bookstores to whom we should give our business!!! They are the folks who first discovered Harry, long before the hype!!! Bina Williams Bridgeport Public Lib ------------------------------ From: Christine Neirink <cneirink@vlc.lib.mi.us> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Funniest Reference Question Request MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:55:17 CDT I just now had a young lady ask for the book "How to Kill a Mockingbird" ... Christine Neirink <cneirink@vlc.lib.mi.us> ------------------------------ From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> Subject: ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:56:43 CDT I was asked to forward this message regarding ALA Membership Meetings __________________________________ ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS July, 2000 Have you ever thrown a party and had no one show up? ALA has at the last few conference membership meetings. The quorum of 600 members has not been reached so we were unable to conduct official business of the association. The ALA Council has been concerned about this since the membership meeting is an important forum for all members to participate in the process of association business. This Spring ALA President Sarah Ann Long appointed an ALA Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings to find solutions and answers to this troubling problem. I was appointed to chair this group. We have sought some early input into this situation in several member venues. As a result there are changes for this July's Annual Conference which includes times of meetings and emphasis. Membership I is scheduled for Saturday, July 8 from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. immediately pre-ceding the Opening General Session, 5:30 to 7pm, MCC, North Hall. Membership II is scheduled for Monday from 11 a.m. until Noon. Both Membership Meetings will be held in the South Building at McCormick Place Convention Center, Vista Ballroom. The Task Force has heard many times that if there is an issue that needs discussing, members will attend. We think there are several issues members want to discuss, and have placed one on each open agenda with plenty of room for additional topics. At Membership I the featured discussions will be the draft reports of the ALA Education Task Force on External Accreditation and the Core Values Task Force. At Membership II on Monday we are inviting discussion concerning the ALA statement on filtering. At both sessions Council members and members representing groups dealing with the issues in committee will be on hand to listen and react to questions. However, it is important to remember that the agendas for these meetings ARE NOT CLOSED, NOR ARE THEY NEARLY FILLED. There have been many issues on ALA list-serves this Spring that members appear to be passionate about that may be added. A minimum amount of time on the agenda will be devoted to procedural activities. The ALA Council Resolutions Committee will be on hand to help members draft resolutions they wish sent to Council. There will even be free conference registrations for San Francisco given aways and reserved seating for the Opening General Session to follow Membership I on Saturday. Help us help you have your issues heard and discussed. If you are a new association member, veteran member, listener or talker, there will be something for you at these meetings that goes to the heart of your obligation as an engaged association member. Kent Oliver, ALA Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings, Chair ------------------------------ From: PIKLY@aol.com To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Summer Reading Prizes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:57:53 CDT Huzzah Walter! Our Summer Reading Program gets about half of the 6,000 kids in our town to join, because we go to all the elementary schools and do a skit (this year's was a game show) to excite the kids about reading and coming to the library. So I think it is fair to say many of those kids are not super-readers, or we would only have about 10 percent of the kid population instead of 50 percent. Also, I think we need to emphasize that the prizes, games, etc. entice the parents as much as the kids, which is equally important as most kids need to have a parent drive them to the library in many of our towns. Thanks! My 2 Cents, Penny Peck San Leandro Public Library, CA ------------------------------ From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> Subject: New Hampshire Library Faces Suit over Filter Policy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:59:17 CDT New Hampshire Library Faces Suit over Filter Policy http://www.ala.org/alonline/news/2000/000703.html#nashua "In 1998, a federal judge permanently enjoined the Loudoun County (Va.) Public Library from enforcing a similar policy. The library board responded by suspending Internet service, then revising its access policy."
_________________________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 312-280-4225 800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/index.html ------------------------------ From: "M. Neiman" <mellifur@tiac.net> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: HP jeopardy questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:00:36 CDT
I sent a couple of corrections to the list a couple of weeks ago, but I'm not sure I ever saw them. One may be a typo, and I just found the other a little vague or misleading. I'm sorry, I don't have the questions in front of me, so I can't tell you the amount and category of either. But one of them was about the caretaker's name. I believe the answer says "Fitch", but the correct answer (or maybe just the correct spelling?) is "Filch". There's another question about "who wants to be the most perfect student". Percy wants to be a prefect, and it means he has to be a good student and well behaved. But perhaps a better way of asking the question might be, "Who is trying to impress his professors so that they will choose him to be the student who is in charge of all the other students in his House?" American kids may be assuming the word is "perfect" or that it means "perfect", but that's not really accurate. And I again want to pass along our thanks, because our kids really enjoyed playing Potter Jeopardy! I'm sure it took a long time to put that game together, and so many of us are reaping the benefits of your hard work! Miriam M. Neiman neiman@glasct.org (or mellifur@tiac.net) Welles-Turner Memorial Library Glastonbury, CT http://www.wtmlib.com The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my organization. ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 179 ************************ |
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