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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and
Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 444
PUBYAC Digest 444
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: Are you a super model? (for young adult services)
by Rollie Welch <welchro@oplin.lib.oh.us>
2) RE: ADD and respect
by JDICKEY <JDICKEY@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
3) RE: Posting to Pubyac
by "Dawn Sardes" <Dawn.Sardes@euclid.lib.oh.us>
4) Re: slogans
by "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
5) Re: ADD and respect
by "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
6) Re: ADD and respect
by "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
7) Re: Question from SLJ RE: Summer Reading Question
by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
8) Re: Book Awards
by Pam Carlson <pcarlson@sun.lbpl.org>
9) Re: Unattended Children
by Bobbie Best <bobbie@lib.state.hi.us>
10) NPR off the beaten path
by "Cathy Norman" <csn71650@hotmail.com>
11) Re: Craft Books
by stewartj@einetwork.net (Judy
Stewart)
12) Re: Survivor
by Chuck Schacht <schachtc@libcoop.net>
13) Re: Children's Magazines
by Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us>
14) Automating SRP
by Andrew Finkbeiner <ANDREW@rockford.lib.il.us>
15) Re: ADD and respect
by Lori Davies <ldavies@carl.org>
16) RE: Question from SLJ RE: Summer Reading Question
by "PJ Capps" <pjcapps@leavenworth.lib.ks.us>
17) Re: Children's Magazines
by "Karen Gardner" <kgardner@and.lib.in.us>
18) Re: Summer Reading Question
by "Lempi Poulin" <lpoulin@ci.hurst.tx.us>
19) Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
request
by Eloise Symonds <childlib@ci.gallup.nm.us>
20) survivor program
by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
21) Re: Pictures of children in publicity
by Mary Witten Frasier <mfrasier@monroe.lib.in.us>
22) RE: Summer Reading Question
by Andrea Johnson <ajohnson@cooklib.org>
23) Kid Proof CD Players
by "Blayne Borden" <bborden@timberland.lib.wa.us>
24) RE: Does Your Library Web Page Have Homeschool Links?
by steven engelfried <stevene@dpls.lib.or.us>
25) Summer Reading Club Themes
by "Elaine Moustakas" <elainem9@hotmail.com>
26) Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
request
by jrossa@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us
(Judy Rossa)
27) RE: A tempest in a wizard's cauldron
by "Dawn Sardes" <Dawn.Sardes@euclid.lib.oh.us>
28) RE: ADD and respect
by Harriett Smith <harriett@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
29) Re: ADD and respect
by "M. Mills" <mmills@stic.lib.tx.us>
30) Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
request
by Cheryl McConnell <cheryl@dcl-lib.org>
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From: Rollie Welch <welchro@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Are you a super model? (for young adult services)
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:50:42 CDT
At Warren-Trumbull County Library we have conducted a program called
"Cross-School Peer Tutoring." Students volunteer their time
if they feel
confident in a subject area and help a complete stranger with their school
work. The library serves over 20 school districts and this tutoring
enabled students from different backgrounds to interact.
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From: JDICKEY <JDICKEY@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: RE: ADD and respect
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NO! I am in no way defending what the original poster said about ADHD kids
and their parents, but this has been a wonderful, passionate sharing of
views. Get it out into the open, examine it, argue about it! That way we all
learn. We must try not to be afraid to hear from ALL sides, controversial
and even repugnant though they may be.
Janet
Janet Dickey, YA Assistant
creator of
Mayfield Regional Library
Anyone's Guess and
Cuyahoga County Public Library InvestiCats Mystery
Kits
suburban Cleveland, OH)
<doubledog@core.com>
jdickey@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
http://dbldog.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: HFL_LISA@stls.org [mailto:HFL_LISA@stls.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:00 PM
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: ADD and respect
Well you certainly shared your opinions with the hundreds of professionals
on Pubyac and insultd many. If you think ones underlyinghostility and
'judgemental' attitude does not come across perhaps we might want to hear
from one of those parents you so confident is "Masking their own
inabilities
and falsely mislabeling theri child". That statement is equally
as rude and
intolerant
as your others and does not belong in this forum. Oh that we could
vote
someone off our little island here.
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From: "Dawn Sardes" <Dawn.Sardes@euclid.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
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Dear Fellow Pubyac Devotees,
I am writing to offer a suggestion in "Netiquette." I would
like it if we
all begin adding our email addresses to our signature files when posting to
the list. Many email program only show the pubyac address and not the
email
address of the person who is asking for information.
Often, it is more appropriate to respond to a person individually and not to
an entire list of hundreds or thousands, cluttering up their mailboxes with
responses they are not interested in reading.
I thank you in advance for considering this request.
Dawn Sardes
Young Adult Librarian
Euclid Public Library
631 E. 222nd Street
Euclid, OH 44123
216-261-5300, ext. 138
FAX: 216-261-9559
dsardes@euclid.lib.oh.us
"Speak low-tread softly through these halls,
Here Genius lies enshrined,
Here Reign, in silent majesty,
The monarchs of the mind."
from "In the Library," by Anne C.L. Botts
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From: "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: slogans
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:52:05 CDT
How about "Building Our Future"
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From: "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: ADD and respect
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:52:27 CDT
I received more positive than negative replies, just in case you wanted to
"vote me off" for using my first amendment rights.
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From: "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: ADD and respect
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:52:42 CDT
As I wrote another person yesterday - it does not take amazing powers of
deduction to listen to a mother shout her child's name in excess of 80 times
(documented by other staff as well), without ever stepping toward the child,
then help her check out The Dissasociative Child, to form an opinion. There
was no underlying hostility in my email, just MY opinion on a societal
epidemic. Just because I think ADD is overdiagnosed does not mean I dislike
ADD children. Don't apply false logic.
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From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Question from SLJ RE: Summer Reading Question
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:53:01 CDT
my only concern would be "how customizable is it?"
every SRP is a little bit different and I personally
LOVE to keep statistics on tons of things whether I
think I'll need them or not [amusing since statistics
is the only class I ever dropped].
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From: Pam Carlson <pcarlson@sun.lbpl.org>
To: "pubyac@prairienet.org"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: Book Awards
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:53:22 CDT
At 05/08/2001 6:02:00 PM, you wrote:
>Dear Yaccers,
>
>
>I'm from the Kansas City area; I work at a library in Kansas, and live
in
>Missouri. In Kansas, we have the William Allen White Award
>(http://www.emporia.edu/libsv/wawbkawd.htm);
elementary and middle school
>students (grades 3-8) across Kansas read from a list of books and vote
on a
>winner in April; Missouri has a similar program with the Mark Twain
Award.
>I'm interested to know if California has a similar list and award; I'm
>moving there next fall, and I'm trying to get ready. I realized
this
>morning I won't be in Kansas next year, thus I won't need to read the
>William Allen White books. But I wanted to get a head start on the
>California list, if there is such a thing. Can any of you
California
>librarians help me out? Thanks!
>
>Shawn Thrasher
>Lackman Branch
>Johnson County Library
>Kansas
We have had the California Young Readers Medal program for many years.
Titles are nominated in primary, picture book for older
readers, intermediate, junior high/middle school, and young adult categories
by students. Nominations are read by a committee of
representatives from California Library Association, California Reading
Association, California Media Library Educators Association, and
California Teachers of English. They narrow the nominations to a final list
which is voted on by students. Medals are presented by a
student to the author on a rotating basis by category at the annual
conferences of the associations. Approximately 500,000 students
participate each year. For a list of nominations and winners, go to
cla-net.org.
Hope this helps.
Pam Carlson
Los Altos Branch
Long Beach CA
Pam Carlson
pcarlson@lbpl.org
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From: Bobbie Best <bobbie@lib.state.hi.us>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults &
Children"
Subject: Re: Unattended Children
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:57:47 CDT
Children under five years old are not allowed left unattended in the
Hawaii State Public Library System. We may phone police! Aloha
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From: "Cathy Norman" <csn71650@hotmail.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: NPR off the beaten path
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<P>Here we have "lost" countless copies of The Hobbit and
the Lord of the
Rings Trilogy (Tolkein) and we have quit replacing Pink Floyd CDs because
they never stay in the library for more than 2 circulations before they
sprout legs or wings or something.</P>
<P>Peace and Blessings, <BR>Cathy Norman <BR>Youth
Services Librarian
<BR>Fairport Harbor Public Library (OH) <BR>440-354-8191
<BR>csn71650@hotmail.com <BR></P></DIV><br
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From: stewartj@einetwork.net
(Judy Stewart)
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Craft Books
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:58:36 CDT
The "Little Hands" books by Judy Press are terrific - one is
called
Alphabet Art, one is Vroom! Vroom! - there are others - most use
recyclables and easy easy.
Judy STewart
Community Library of Allegheny Valley
----- Original Message -----
From: Sandy Belfi <sbelfi@monarch.papillion.ne.us>
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 7:14 pm
Subject: Craft Books
> Hi all:
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for good craft books with easy
> crafts,appropriate for storytime?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Sandy Belfi
> Sump Memorial Library
> Papillion, NE 68046
>
>
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From: Chuck Schacht <schachtc@libcoop.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Survivor
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Hey, Cathy - how about you have protagonists froom books be the characters
on
the island, and each week the kids in attendance vote one of THEM off of the
island, after everybody has the chance to advocate for their favorite?
Chuck
Adrian Public Library wrote:
> Hello,
> Has anyone done any type of program for young
adults based on the TV =
> show Survivor, and would be willing to share the details? I've
been =
> playing around with the idea of doing our own version of Survivor, but
I =
> don't really like the idea of voting people out of the 'tribe' I'm =
> having trouble working around that and still maintain enough
resemblance =
> to the show.
>
> Last summer we played our own version of
"Who Wants to Be a =
> Millionaire?" and it was very successful, so I'd like to
capitalize on =
> another popular TV show.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cathy Chesher
> Adrian Public Library
> Adrian, Michigan
> 143 E. Maumee St.
> Adrian, MI 49221
> cchesher@monroe.lib.mi.us
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From: Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Children's Magazines
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:22:15 CDT
Crystal:
I guess I would divide the must haves into those that aren't often on my
shelf and those whose quality I appreciate (with some overlap between the
two groups). Just checking my circulating collection quickly I note
that
American Girl, Disney Adventures, Girls' Life and Nickelodeon have few
issues on the shelf. Obviously, Disney and Nickelodeon have a
marketing
connection which guarantee their popularity. Just from cover photos
Girls'
Life seems to be pitched to a slightly older crowd (maybe more Junior
Highish). I like Ranger Rick and it's younger sibling My Big
Backyard. Other science-related magazines that I am impressed by
include
Click (for younger elementary) and Muse (for older elementary and jr. high)
which are cooperative ventures between the Spider folks and the Smithsonian
and National Geographic World (which is more science related than its
parent). Cricket is a classic of children's periodicals and its
siblings
Spider, Ladybug (for younger kids) and Cicada (for teens) are also quality
publications. The Archaeological Institute of America has a relatively
new
magazine called Archaeology's Dig or just Dig which is chock full of
mummies, dinosaurs and other things favorite oldies and moldies. The
last
impressive magazine that I would mention is called New Moon which is
targeted at upper elementary girls. This is an add free publication
with
lots of content from girls. Hope that helps,
Eric Norton
enorton@scls.lib.wi.us
Head of Children's Services
McMillan Memorial Library
490 E. Grand Ave.
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin 54494
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From: Andrew Finkbeiner <ANDREW@rockford.lib.il.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Automating SRP
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Walter (and fellow Yackers):
The only portion of Summer Reading Club we've automated is registration (in
a way.) We decided last year to do away with the mid-point incentive
and
instead spend that money on sending an encourgaging postcard reminder to all
club members to reach their reading goal. Last year, we printed
mailing
labels from our participant database. This year, we've printed up a
postcard that people address when they sign-up for the club.
The postcard includes a tear-off piece that asks for the participant's
birthdate. We key the name, address, birthdate into the database
(Microsoft
Access). When a child meets his/her goal, we mark that in the
database.
That way, we can tell who our committed readers are in order to target
mailings for certain programs (like book discussion groups), or do a broader
mailing for other types of programs.
Our club serves around 4,000 children. Printing the postcards
(perforated
(and numbered so we can tell at a glance how many people joined)) cost about
$500.
As far as automating other aspects of the club, last year I posted to PUBYAC
about Book Adventure, the "Free On-line Reading Incentive Program for
Elementary Schools" (http://www.bookadventure.org.
Sponsors are Barnes and
Nobles, Sylvan Learning Foundation, Lycos, Bowker, and Canter. Someone
from
our local Sylvan Learning Center had contacted me to see if we would like to
use it as part of our summer reading club. I could see its appeal, but
since I sensed Accelerated Reader overtones, I kept my distance. I
could
see, though, how it could serve as a model for an online SRC.
Another topic for automating SRC (or a part of it) is online book discussion
groups. Does anyone know of any libraries that host moderated chat
through
their website? I want to put a chat application on our website so that
we
can host book discussion groups. During the school year, we could work
with
the schools and say, "On such and such a date at 10 a.m., we will be
discussing The Giver. Log onto our website and join the
discussion." (You
get the idea.) I need to know if there are any out-of-the-box software
applications to add chat to our web-site.
Andrew Finkbeiner
Rockford (IL) Public Library
andrew@rockford.lib.il.us
Visit our website at http://www.rpl.rockford.org
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From: Lori Davies <ldavies@carl.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: ADD and respect
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HFL_LISA@stls.org wrote:
> Well you certainly shared your opinions with the hundreds of
professionals
> on Pubyac and insultd many. If you think ones underlying
hostility and
> 'judgemental' attitude does not come across perhaps we might want to
hear
> from one of those parents you so confident is "Masking their own
inabilities
> and falsely mislabeling theri child". That statement is
equally as rude
and
> intolerant as your others and does not belong in this forum. Oh
that we
could
> vote
> someone off our little island here.
I'm not particularly fervent on either side of this issue, although I do
think
ADD and ADHD are both overdiagnosed in children. However, I vehemently
believe
the people here who are so ready to impugn Melissa's librarianship, morals,
and
character should consider how judgmental they themselves are being before
they
start throwing stones.
Lori Davies
Content Manager, Kids Catalog
Carl Corporation
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From: "PJ Capps" <pjcapps@leavenworth.lib.ks.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: Question from SLJ RE: Summer Reading Question
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Lesley
i guess my first question is what do you do with this information. at one
time we also kept six different data bases, updating them each time a child
turned in a paper showing he had read some books. but, we didn't really do
anything with the information.
now we distribute our free paperbacks more equitably, giving each child two
each distribution. this has allowed us to double the number of times we give
out books to every child. i checked with RIF, where some of these books come
from, and they agreed our system was just fine.
basically, kids wanting free books just sign on a numbered pad and check off
if they have participated yet this summer. then they choose two books, thank
us nicely, and smile all the way home. we do read for prizes, with ten books
or 1,000 pages earning you a chance in a drawing. (books can come from
anywhere - the idea is to read not to read our books. When each child reads
enough for one "ticket," we give them a die cut that relates
to our theme
and they write their name on it and staple it to our wall mural (name down).
at the end of the summer we take down all the names, put them in a box and
draw for prizes. prizes are all about the same cost but targeted towards
different ages, so we fill a box with more than enough prizes and its first
come, first serve for choosing.
the biggest problem is all the staples in the wall. last year we did this
with over 1,000 kids that read around 6,800 books. it took three hours to
remove the staples but that is less time than the old librarian spent on
those databases!
this year as we do READING ROAD TRIP USA, we'll be giving out bikes, cars,
trucks
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pubyac@prairienet.org
[mailto:owner-pubyac@prairienet.org]On
Behalf Of Lesley Knieriem
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:58 PM
To: 'pubyac@prairienet.org'
Subject: Re: Question from SLJ RE: Summer Reading Question
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Minkel, Walter (Cahners -NYC) wrote:
> So what do you think? Is anyone doing this or anything like this? I
want
to
> write a "Chat Room" column on this topic, but first I want
you all to
batter
> me about the head with all the reasons why it would never work, please.
I have the kids sign up on paper, but I keep an Excel spreadsheet with
names, ages, sex, schools, and weekly reporting totals. It does help
with
reporting statistics at the end of the summer, but entering all this data
manually is a *major* time consumer -- and I have only about 200 teens in
my program, not thousands.
I also keep backup paper records. Why? Well, there was last
summer, when
my database crashed unrecoverably, halfway through the program. It
took
me days and days to re-enter all that data, tears literally streaming down
my cheeks; but at least I had it to re-enter...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Lesley Knieriem
~
~ YA / Reference Librarian (631) 549-4411
~
~ South Huntington Public Library fax (631) 549-6832
~
~ Huntington Station, NY 11746
lknierie@suffolk.lib.ny.us
~
~ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ~
~ Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis instructam
~
~ libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
~
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From: "Karen Gardner" <kgardner@and.lib.in.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Children's Magazines
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:26:44 CDT
Pubyaccers,
Even if these magazines are must-haves, do they check out well?? We
have
about a dozen magazines but I have lately been looking at them
differently. Many of them do not circ more than maybe 3-6 times a
year.
It could be the way we merchandise them. Please share with me info on
how well yours circ, and what magic number may persuade you to stop
subscription.
TIA
Karen Gardner
Anderson Public Library
Anderson, IN 46016
kgardner@and.lib.in.us
-----Original Message-----
From: "Crystal" <cfaris@nassaulibrary.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:11:57 CDT
Subject: Children's Magazines
>
> More than a month ago, I posted a request to PUBYAC for your
> suggestions =
> of "must have" children's magazines and asked what your best
resources
> =
> were for discovering new children's magazines. Not many of you =
> responded, so you may be having some of the same questions!
Thanks to
> =
> Lisa Smith, Andrea Terry, and Megan VanderHart for sending me their =
> "must haves", which were American Girl, Sports Illustrated
for Kids, =
> Ranger Rick, possibly Cobblestone, Cricket, and Explore! (check out =
> their web site at www.exploremagazine.com).
Lisa also mentioned popular
> =
> magazines for adults who work with children such as Clever Kids, =
> Copycat, and Pac o Fun.
>
> Thanks again to those who sent me their "must have"
children's =
> magazines. If anyone else has suggestions, I would still like to
read
> =
> them!
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Crystal Faris
> Youth Services Manager
> Nassau Library System
> 900 Jerusalem Ave.; Uniondale, NY 11553
> 516-292-8920; cfaris@nassaulibrary.org
> www.nassaulibrary.org/childrens/kidsmainpage.html
>
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From: "Lempi Poulin" <lpoulin@ci.hurst.tx.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: Summer Reading Question
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Toni:
Starting in 1994 the Hurst Public Library started offering an adult summer =
reading club program adding to the summer reading club programs for =
elementary and young adult. This year the program starts June 1 and
runs =
through July 28. We start the program with a special day of programs
that =
include registration. With the registration for adults we offer a
prize, =
this year it is a mug. At the end of each week we have drawings for =
prizes and at the end of the program we offer two grand prizes. Last
year =
we had 4500 people participate in the activities we offered during the =
eight weeks (this included all three programs: children preschool through =
6th grade, Young Adults through 12th grade, and Adults - age 18 and =
older). Grand prize winners have to be 21 years old or older.
Weekly =
prize entries are one book per entry while grand prize entries must read =
five books per entry.
Lempi Poulin
Information Specialist
Hurst Public Library
901 Precinct Line Road
Hurst, TX 76053
(817) 788-7301
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From: Eloise Symonds <childlib@ci.gallup.nm.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
request
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:29:02 CDT
Adult section:
The books by Tony Hillerman disappear often. Gallup is in the 'heart'
of
the
Navajo Nation.
M.C. Escher books and Stephen King books disappear too quickly.
Juvenile section:
Anything by R. L. Stine (no surprise)
Drawing books
"The Hobbit"
Eloise Symonds
Youth Services Librarian
Gallup, NM
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From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: survivor program
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:29:38 CDT
it just occured to me this morning that Lori Pulliam's
suggestion of voting off book suggestions is also very
similar to another program on VH1 called "The List"
I don't know if the show is still on or not but the
format was that a panel of celebrities would come on
and each nominate 2 or 3 songs for a "best of"
catagory [best male rock video, best rap group song,
etc.] and then they would go around the group and
other panelists would vote off titles until they got
down to a list of five or ten. It could be fun to
combine this idea with the Survivor program ideas and
you could do it several times for different genres or
authors to make a whole series of programs out of it.
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From: Mary Witten Frasier <mfrasier@monroe.lib.in.us>
To: Schmidt <mschmidt@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Re: Pictures of children in publicity
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:30:18 CDT
In our library, we do not allow anyone to take pictures of any child
unless it is their own. When we want pictures for promotional reasons,
we
have the parents sign a release form. Since we have a TV station in
our
library, we do make promotional videos starring local kids and this does
appear on cable TV. I guess we just leave the worry about pedophiles
up
to the parents when they sign the release form.
Mary Frasier
mfrasier@monroe.lib.in.us
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Schmidt wrote:
> Has anyone had any experiences or thoughts on the placement of pictures
of
> child patrons on their library's website or newsletter? My director is
> concerned that pictures of kids may attract pedophiles. If you do
publish
> pictures with kids in them do you identify them by name? Please
respond
> directly, TIA!
> Mary M. Schmidt
> Head of Children's Services
> West Babylon Public Library
> West Babylon NY
>
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From: Andrea Johnson <ajohnson@cooklib.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:30:51 CDT
That's pretty easy to say when you're in a small town. However, in a
good-sized suburban library like ours, if we opened the reading club to all
comers we'd soon break the bank and not be able to afford prizes for our own
taxpayer families. We don't have the advantages that come with a
finite
population like that of Bluffton, plus whomever's visiting them. We
get
kids from the next town over, and the next one over from that, and so forth.
The next town over has an extremely limited budget since they've had trouble
passing a referendum to support the library's operating budget, and as a
result their summer activities are more limited than ours. Should we
be
penalizing the kids from our district (whose parents pay taxes to support
our library) to include the kids from the next district (whose parents have
so far not elected to support the library's financial needs)? Doesn't
seem
particularly fair to our kids. I certainly don't think you can label
me as
"anti-child" for saying so.
Andrea Johnson
Cook Memorial Public Library
Libertyville, Illinois
ajohnson@cooklib.org
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From: "Blayne Borden" <bborden@timberland.lib.wa.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Kid Proof CD Players
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:31:22 CDT
Hello!
We are in the process of trying to build a cd listening station in our
kids area where kids and parents can listen to our cds before they
check them out.
I would really like a cd player with an ac adapter that doesn't depend
solely on batteries AND that has big buttons easy to push for little
fingers.
The cd players I have found so far that are specifically for kids don't
play real cds!
Does anyone know of anything like this in existence?
thanks!
Blayne Borden
Lacey Timberland Library
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From: steven engelfried <stevene@dpls.lib.or.us>
To: "PUBYAC (E-mail)" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: Does Your Library Web Page Have Homeschool Links?
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:31:55 CDT
Peter alerted us that the Home Eduction Magazine website
(http://www.home-ed-press.com/)
is now a porn site. Their new URL is
http://www.home-ed-magazine.com.
They explain how this unexpected
circumstance came to be at http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/badurl.html.
- Steven Engelfried, Young Adult Librarian
Deschutes Public Library System
545 NW Wall Street Bend, OR 97701
ph: 541-617-7072 fax: 541-389-2982
e-mail: stevene@dpls.lib.or.us
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From: Peter Butts <pbutts@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Does Your Library Web Page Have Homeschool Links?
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....if so, have your webmaster look for this link :
http://www.home-ed-press.com/
I manage the education section at the Michigan Electronic Library and one of
my
patrons discovered the link is now forwarding to a porn site---eek!
-Peter Butts,
Education Selector & Collection Librarian
Michigan Electronic Library
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From: "Elaine Moustakas" <elainem9@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Summer Reading Club Themes
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:32:32 CDT
Dear PubYac-
I'm in the rudimentary stages of planning for my summer reading program.
I
have decided not to go along with the theme of my county which is
"Folktales
from Around the World." I'm trying to decide what theme I'd like to do.
Last year I did "Space" and I loved it because there were so many
things I
found to decorate with, so many crafts, stories, etc... I am looking
for
recommendations of your most favorite theme you ever did for the summer and
what made it so great.
Thanks a lot.
Elaine
elainem9@hotmail.com
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From: jrossa@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us
(Judy Rossa)
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
request
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:32:55 CDT
>From Bridgeport Public Library (CT):
Books on grant writing, witchcraft and the occult, exam books
(police[!], firefighters, civil service, nursing, etc.), martial arts.
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From: "Dawn Sardes" <Dawn.Sardes@euclid.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: A tempest in a wizard's cauldron
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I read the article regarding Mr. McCormick's atempts to have the Potter
books banned from his school district. Mr. McCormick sites a single
line,
taken out of context, as justification for this. The fact that this
line,
where Harry makes a conscious choice to lie, is made when he is facing the
story's "ultimate evil", is not mentioned at all.
I, for one, wish that I could meet Mr. McCormick. Can he really
honestly
say that he would not support his children telling a lie in self defense?
If a stranger came to the door while he had run out to buy a quart of milk,
would his child not say, "I'm sorry, my dad is busy and cannot come to
the
door now." Or, would his super-honest child say, "I'm home
alone." He might
end up dead. As a parent, I have role-played different situations with
my
children, giving them stock answers (lies) to tell others when it is in the
interest of safety and common sense to tell a lie. All thoughtful,
concerned parents do this. It is smart; it is sensible, and it is
prudent.
Mr. McCormick and others like him seem to only want to have their 15 minutes
in the public eye, regardless of truth. I wish that he and people like
him
would spend more of their time, energy, and money helping and volunteering
in the schools & libraries rather than trying to dictate what is good
and
evil for everyone. Run a book discussion club, read the Harry Potter
books
and talk about what behaviors you disapprove of and why. Use the books
as a
vehicle for the transmission of family & religious values.
Over-reacting to
the point of challenging books only stops discussion, socially ostrasizes
&
embarasses your children, and makes them less likely to ever again come to
you with questions and concerns. In short, you end up forcing your children
to cheat, lie, and sneak around.
Dawn Sardes
Young Adult Librarian
Euclid Public Library
631 E. 222nd Street
Euclid, OH 44123
216-261-5300, ext. 138
FAX: 216-261-9559
dsardes@euclid.lib.oh.us
"Speak low-tread softly through these halls,
Here Genius lies enshrined,
Here Reign, in silent majesty,
The monarchs of the mind."
from "In the Library," by Anne C.L. Botts
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pubyac@prairienet.org
[mailto:owner-pubyac@prairienet.org]On
>Behalf Of Don Wood
>Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:17 PM
>Subject: A tempest in a wizard's cauldron
>A tempest in a wizard's cauldron
>http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/05/07/local_news/spotter07.htm
>"McCormick, a librarian, says one illustrative passage takes place
toward
the end of the
>first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, when the hero is put
in
a position where >he must lie or lose his life:"
> "I must lie," Harry says to himself. "I must look and
lie about what I
see, that's all."
>"McCormick said he believes passages like this are far from benign,
worrying that children >will read them as an endorsement of
lying in
general."
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From: Harriett Smith <harriett@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: JDICKEY <JDICKEY@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
Subject: RE: ADD and respect
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I agree with Janet and would like to add that someone who does not sign
their name to their post would not be a good choice to vote anyone out of
anywhere.
Now I will go back to lurking. Please send flames to my email, given
below.
Harriett
Harriett Smith
Catalog Dept, Knight Library
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~harriett
harriett@darkwing.uoregon.edu
On Wed, 9 May 2001, JDICKEY wrote:
> NO! I am in no way defending what the original poster said about ADHD
kids
> and their parents, but this has been a wonderful, passionate sharing of
> views. Get it out into the open, examine it, argue about it! That way
we
all
> learn. We must try not to be afraid to hear from ALL sides,
controversial
> and even repugnant though they may be.
>
> Janet
>
> Janet Dickey, YA Assistant
creator of
> Mayfield Regional Library
Anyone's Guess and
> Cuyahoga County Public Library InvestiCats
Mystery Kits
> suburban Cleveland, OH)
<doubledog@core.com>
> jdickey@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
http://dbldog.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HFL_LISA@stls.org
[mailto:HFL_LISA@stls.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:00 PM
> To: pubyac@prairienet.org
> Subject: Re: ADD and respect
>
>
> Well you certainly shared your opinions with the hundreds of
professionals
> on Pubyac and insultd many. If you think ones underlyinghostility
and
> 'judgemental' attitude does not come across perhaps we might want to
hear
> from one of those parents you so confident is "Masking their own
inabilities
> and falsely mislabeling theri child". That statement is
equally as rude
and
> intolerant
> as your others and does not belong in this forum. Oh that we
could vote
> someone off our little island here.
>
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From: "M. Mills" <mmills@stic.lib.tx.us>
To: Melissa MacLeod <mmacleod@sailsinc.org>
Subject: Re: ADD and respect
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:34:59 CDT
Enough has been said about ADD and respect. Different people have
shared
their experiences, and all of us have been enlightened by the many ways of
"seeing" ADD, ADHD, et. al. Backbiting is not productive,
however, and we
have learned a great deal about intolerance on both sides of the table.
All
of us have the right to stop some of the backbiting by not reading and/or by
not responding to this subject. Everyone has a right to own their own
feelings, no matter if these feelings are "right" or
"wrong", "just" or
"unjust". None of us should ever impose our own feelings on
those around us
in a viscious manner.
Can someone on the listserve find something/anything positive to say about
the
importance of sharing our feelings in a nonjudgmental way? Just a
thought...
Melissa MacLeod wrote:
> I received more positive than negative replies, just in case you wanted
to
> "vote me off" for using my first amendment rights.
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From: Cheryl McConnell <cheryl@dcl-lib.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: PR: NPR reporter & "off-the-beaten-path"
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Books about witchcraft seem to "disappear" before our eyes.
Also, we
constantly have to replace Stephen King titles.
Cheryl Gendron
Dickinson County Library
Iron Mountain, MI
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