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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
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To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 650
PUBYAC Digest 650
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) suggest books on death of sibling
by "Bloedau, Linda" <LBloedau@ci.oak-ridge.tn.us>
2) Australia storytime
by "Ann W. Moore" <scp_moore@sals.edu>
3) Good News (already) about Book Magazine
by Kathleenodean@cs.com
4) Multnomah County Library Launches New Web Site in Spanish
by Public Relations Special Account <pr@multcolib.org>
5) Bird/Flying read-alouds
by "Curry Rose Hoskey" <hoskey@easthamlibrary.org>
6) Virtual YA Index Address Change & More
by "Tracey Firestone" <tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
7) Memories, language response
by "Cathy Norman" <csn71650@hotmail.com>
8) STUMPER
by Beth Gallaway <bethgallaway@yahoo.com>
9) RE:collective noun for adults
by Rita Hunt Smith <RitaHuntSmith@DERRYTOWNSHIP.ORG>
10) Stumper: Nivram
by Cathie Bashaw <missbook72@yahoo.com>
11) ?Picture Book Story
by "Shari Haber" <shaber@mcls.org>
12) tracking author's birthdays
by "Gruninger, Laura" <lgruning@MCL.org>
13) Eulogy response thank you
by "Rebecca Cohen" <storyweaver@newportlibrary.org>
14) stumper:twins adventures
by Sushila Mertens <kidlit_2000@yahoo.com>
15) Stories about death of siblings
by "Carol Phares" <cphares@pearlriver.lib.ms.us>
16) Programming and teaching theories - summary of responses
by "Ned Wall" <nedwall@rcn.com>
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From: "Bloedau, Linda" <LBloedau@ci.oak-ridge.tn.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: suggest books on death of sibling
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Dear wise ones,
please suggests books on the death of a sibling. This specific request is
for a 6-7 year old girl who's baby sister has died, but any suggestions will
be gratefully received.
Linda B. in sunny springlike east Tennessee
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From: "Ann W. Moore" <scp_moore@sals.edu>
To: PUBYAC@PRAIRIENET.ORG
Subject: Australia storytime
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:24:24 CST
Some time ago a librarian posted a request for help with a storytime using
an Australian theme. I am planning one and would appreciate suggestions
for
fingerplays/songs/rhymes (I have plenty of books). Please send to me
offlist. Thanks!
Ann W. Moore
Schenectady Co, NY Public Library
scp_moore@sals.edu
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From: Kathleenodean@cs.com
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Subject: Good News (already) about Book Magazine
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:24:29 CST
Thank you to everyone who wrote to me and Book Magazine about its coverage
of
books for young people. Apparently since the decision to cut the
children's
and teens area from the January issue (for production reasons rather than ad
revenue issues--my mistake), the editors are actually thinking of beefing up
the coverage of children's and teens books. They may even add some feature
articles, which would be great.
Wow, a happy ending. Thanks again. (Apologies for the
cross-posting.)
Kathy Odean
Chair, 2002 Newbery Committee
Author, Great Books for Girls, Great Books for Boys, Great Books about
Things
Kids Love
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From: Public Relations Special Account <pr@multcolib.org>
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Subject: Multnomah County Library Launches New Web Site in Spanish
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:27:18 CST
January 11, 2002
For immediate release
Contact:Kristen McKee, LIBROS Web Site Coordinator, 503.988.4332
=09Mary Lou Begert, LIBROS Manager, 503.988.5216
=09Penny Hummel, Public Relations Manager, 503.988.5498
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=09Press Information Center
=09(www.multcolib.org/news/index.html)
MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE IN SPANISH
PORTLAND, OR - Multnomah County Library has launched a new Web site for
its Spanish-speaking customers - www.multcolib.org/libros/.
While the
library has provided a Web site in Spanish since June 1999, the new site
offers simpler organization, more complete information about library
services and more direct access to key resources, such as databases and
community programs.
More Direct Access to Community Programs Multnomah County Library's new
site is the first single place in the Portland area where the public can
go for comprehensive information in Spanish about local programs that
serve the Hispanic community. Visitors to the "Enlaces Populares"
("Popular Links") section of the library's new site will find
information
on employment, immigration, English classes, social services and local
cultural activities. The library will continue to work with agencies,
organizations and the county to organize and provide a central location on
the Internet for information to gather, much in the way that the libraries
themselves are becoming central locations for the Spanish-speaking
community to gather.
More Direct Access to Key Resources
The Web site allows customers free access to numerous databases that the
library has purchased. "=A1Informe!," for example, provides the
complete
text of more than 50 publications in Spanish.
In addition, library employees have organized hundreds of links to
external Web sites and other resources in Spanish. Each listing includes
an annotation to help customers determine the usefulness of the resource.
Children, teens, parents and teachers will find special sections targeted
for their needs, including homework help. Other sections, for users of
all ages, are organized by subject.
Complete Information About Library Services
Another section, "Espa=F1ol en la Biblioteca," details all of the
services
that Multnomah County Library provides in Spanish and explains how
customers may access these services. Customers can also use online forms
to register for a library card or to suggest new materials for the
library's collection.
Simple Organization
Experienced Internet users will note that the site is divided into four
main areas and offers navigational links in the upper right-hand corner of
every page. On the site's home page and other pages, smiling library
employees greet users and explain different aspects of the site through
video and audio clips. This feature keeps the site accessible to
customers with low literacy levels or little or no experience using the
Internet or the library.
In addition to directly visiting the new site at
www.multcolib.org/libros/,
customers may access it from the home page of
Multnomah County Library's Web site (www.multcolib.org)
by clicking on the
"ESPA=D1OL" link.
A grant provided by the Library Services and Technology Act financed the
development of the new Spanish Web site.
# # #
Shannon Long
Multnomah County Library Administration
205 NE Russell St., Portland, OR 97212
503.988.5402=09pr@multcolib.org
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From: "Curry Rose Hoskey" <hoskey@easthamlibrary.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Bird/Flying read-alouds
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Book titles:_Have you seen birds?_ by Joanne Oppenheim; _Anna's rain_ by
Fred Burstein; _The Ice Cream Cone Coot_ by Arnold Lobel...
Cool and easy craft: Several summers ago we had our local Audubon society
send a naturalist for a program. She gave each kid a paper bag with a
handful of birdseed in each. Then she handed each kid a pine cone with a
string tied tightly to one end (to use to hang it), and went around the room
and slathered on peanut butter on each pine cone. Then she had each kid
lower their pine cone into the bag, holding onto the string, and clasp the
paper bag closed with their hands. Then the kids just shook the paper bags
like crazy until most of the birdseed inside stuck to the
peanut-butter-covered pine cone. I hope I don't violate any copyright
protection by reprinting this craft idea! And I hope I didn't leave out a
step--I didn't write the process down and am recreating it from memory.
Have fun!
Curry Rose Hoskey
Youth Services Librarian
Eastham Public Library
190 Samoset Rd.
Eastham MA 02642
http://www.easthamlibrary.org/
Opinions expressed are my own, not the library's.
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From: "Tracey Firestone" <tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Virtual YA Index Address Change & More
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:28:03 CST
The Virtual YA Index has changed address! The Virtual YA Index, a
directory
of public library web pages for teens, has moved to
http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/virtual.html
although the old address will
have a mirror copy of the index available for the next few months. If your
library has a web page for teens, please consider sending your URL (along
with your library name and contact information) to me
(tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us) for
inclusion in this valuable web site for
library folks around the globe.
The Index has also expanded to include its first library from outside of
North America! The addition of the Auckland City Libraries in New Zealand
is, I hope, the first of many wonderful YA sites created outside of the US
and Canada.
Speaking of the US and Canada... there still are *no* libraries listed from
23 states, provinces and territories. Do you know anyone who works in a
library in any of these places? Get in touch with them and suggest they
submit their teen web site for inclusion in the Virtual YA Index! It's
easy, it's free and there's no evaluation involved - if you send it, I will
(eventually) post it!
In Canada we're missing: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest
Territories, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec & Yukon Territory
In the US we're missing: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont & West Virginia
Thanks & I hope to hear from you!
~Tracey
tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us <mailto:tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
AKA: Tracey A. Firestone, MLS
Young Adult Specialist
Suffolk Cooperative Library System
627 North Sunrise Service Rd
Bellport, NY 11713
Phone - 631-286-1600 x1352
FAX - 631-286-1647
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From: "Cathy Norman" <csn71650@hotmail.com>
To: "PUBYAC\\: PUBlic librarians servi" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Memories, language response
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:28:09 CST
Wow! What a wonderful resource this group is. Thanks to everyone for
=
the response to my question regarding a salutation for a letter that is =
other than "Dear Parents." Here are the responses-
Dear Family or Dear Families - 14
Something informal such as Hello! or Greetings! - 9
Dear Anytown Families or Dear Any Library Families - 7
Dear Parent or Dear Parent(s) - 8
Dear Guardian - 4
Address the letter to the child - 2
Dear Caregiver - 2
Dear Friends - 1
No Greeting or Salutation at all; just launch into the letter - 2
For this particular letter I left the greeting off altogether and =
tweeked the first sentence to make it a bit more exciting. For other =
things though I relly like Dear Families because as someone said "We are =
all family in some sense of the word."
Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful responses and support. As always =
- you folks ROCK!
Peace and Blessings,
Cathy Norman, Youth Services Librarian
Fairport Harbor Public Library
Fairport Harbor, OH
440-354-8191 ext 23
csn71650@hotmail.com
*Of course my opinions are my own.
Who else would want them?*
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From: Beth Gallaway <bethgallaway@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: STUMPER
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:28:45 CST
Dear Collective Brain,
Please forgive any cross-posting.
A patron is looking for the title of a story about a
pie on a windowsill that gets eaten by a little guy
who blames it on the cat. At night as he dreams a cow
moos and he thinks it says "it's you," so he awakens
and runs downstairs to confess.
The story contains the line "It was I, little guy, who
ate the pie."
It may have been a picture book or a short story or
poem. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
We have already searched the following resources:
A to Zoo
Novelist
Bibliofind
Google
Amazon.com
Thanks!
Beth Gallaway, YA Librarian
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Beth Gallaway, YA Librarian
bethgallaway@yahoo.com
Haverhill Public Library
99 Main Street Haverhill MA 01830
978/373-1586 fax 978/373-8466
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From: Rita Hunt Smith <RitaHuntSmith@DERRYTOWNSHIP.ORG>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE:collective noun for adults
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:29:06 CST
My vote is for any form of "Family" as in "Dear Library
Family", etc. It is
truly inclusive and less legal sounding that "Dear Parent/Guardian."
When I was teaching and now in the library, I often refer to the adults who
accompany the children as their "special grown-ups" I find this covers
moms,
dads, grandparents, nannies, au pairs, family friends, etc.
Just my two cents--rather than bemoaning having to be careful or the fact
that children today are not growing up in "normal" two-parent
families,
can't we be glad these children have someone to love and nurture them (not
to mention bring them to the library)?
Rita
Rita Hunt Smith
Children's Librarian
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave
Hershey, PA
ritahuntsmith@derrytownship.org
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie
Curie
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From: Cathie Bashaw <missbook72@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: Nivram
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:29:11 CST
I hope somebody can help me! I have a patron who is
desperately searching for the title of a book that he
used to read with his father about 20 years ago. The
only clue we have is that one of the characters was
named Nivram (note that this is Marvin spelled
backwards). Thanks, Cathie
Cathie Bashaw, Children's Librarian
Somers Library, New York
missbook72@yahoo.com
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From: "Shari Haber" <shaber@mcls.org>
To: <stumpers-l@crf.cuis.edu>,
Subject: ?Picture Book Story
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:29:48 CST
Hello, all. I've been having email problems, so I hope this comes out
OK.
A patron remembers reading a story of a man who comes upon a hole. He
drops a pebble or something into the hole, but he cannot hear it hit
bottom. He dumps a lot more stuff into the hole, but it does not fill
up, until one day, stuff falls from the sky. "Hello, is anybody down
there" might be a line that is repeated in the story.
I was tooling around the Web, and ran across a Greenpeace site which
claims that a similar story, set in Japan, appeared in a 1960s vintage
"Fantasy and Science Fiction" magazine. In this version, the hole is
found in a shrine, and the towns people fill the hole with all sorts of
garbage.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? TIA.
Shari Haber
shaber@mcls.org
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From: "Gruninger, Laura" <lgruning@MCL.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: tracking author's birthdays
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:30:09 CST
What are you folks using to track authors' birthdays for program
planning? I have Chase's calendar of events, contemporary
authors and the calendars in Lollipops magazine. In past years a
co-worker had a children's author literary calendar we would
use. Can you recommend a good web site? I'd rather use something that
filter's out all but dates of children's interest.
Thanks,
Laura Gruninger, Youth Services
Mercer County Library System, Lawrence HQ
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From: "Rebecca Cohen" <storyweaver@newportlibrary.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Eulogy response thank you
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Dear colleagues,
This is such a wonderful, generous group! Thank you so much to all who
responded with suggestions for eulogy readings at the memorial for the
little girl who was murdered by her mother.
If anyone wants it, please request a compilation offlist. I will gladly
share.
Rebecca Cohen
Newport Public Library
Newport, Oregon
<storyweaver@newportlibrary.org>
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From: Sushila Mertens <kidlit_2000@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: stumper:twins adventures
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:31:07 CST
Does anyone know of a 60's{?} series of twins having
adventures in different countries?
Thank you and glad you are out there in cyberspace.
Sushila
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From: "Carol Phares" <cphares@pearlriver.lib.ms.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stories about death of siblings
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Hello all,
I had an interesting request this morning. A patron called and asked if I
had any picture storybooks concerning miscarriages. Apparently, she was
pregnant, told her four year old and then miscarried. She doesn't know how
to explain to her child that the unborn child died. This is the second
time
this has happened. The last time she told her daughter (then 3) that Mommy
and Daddy thought it was better not to have a baby right now. She doesn't
want to tell her that again.
I cannot find any titles for this age group about the death of siblings at
all, let alone unborn siblings. Any help with this will certainly be
appreciated.
Carol Phares, MLIS
Youth Services Librarian
cphares@pearlriver.lib.ms.us
Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library
900 Goodyear Blvd.
Picayune, MS 39466
http://www.pearlriver.lib.ms.us
(601) 798-5081 VOICE (601) 798-5082 FAX
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From: "Ned Wall" <nedwall@rcn.com>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Programming and teaching theories - summary of responses
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A month ago I posed a question about teaching theories and the effect they
might have on programming. I apologize for the delay in summarizing the
answers I received. This is being sent to both PUBYAC and YALSA-L.
***
One librarian answered that she views her work as a librarian as totally
unconnected to teaching and teaching theories. She said the best compliment
she received from a kid was that the library wasn't anything like school.
***
One allows kids to either work with something she presents or not. She
attempts to design programs that keep the attention of the participants.
She argues that kids learn in different ways.
***
Another is concerned with the practical considerations of programming (cost,
conflicts, publicity, etc.) and does not give much attention to educational
theories. However, she is interested in developmental theories and tries to
make sure that her programs, which she does more for social reasons than
educational reasons, are appropriate for each age group.
***
Another does not change programming in response to changing
educational theories. She wants to "make the library a good place" and
"pass
on a love of books and reading". She asks for input from teenagers and
other
YA librarians when developing programs, but is not explicitly concerned with
programming directed to a goal.
***
One librarian consciously mixes approaches. She describes the tension
between the "didactic" and "freewheeling" approaches and
does her best to
mix them together as appropriate.
***
Another is aware of teaching and learning theories and attempts to work
them into his programming. He does not promote one theory at the expense of
another, but wants to have a body of programming that together have
presented material in ways that over the course of a year will have
accounted for as many of the teaching and learning theories as possible. He
tries to tie his programs to the Forty Developmental Assets available on the
Search Institute's web site (http://www.search-institute.org/).
He suggested
reviewing these as well as the article Patrick Jones wrote about them in the
November 2001 issue of School Library Journal.
***
Finally, one respondent wondered if watermelon spitting was Vygotskian or
Piagetian constructivism.
Thank you all for the time you took to answer.
Ned Wall (nedwall@rcn.com)
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