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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: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 724
PUBYAC Digest 724
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) big books
by Clara Sheffer <csheffer@nileslibrary.org>
2) stumper
by Adamko <padamko@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
3) Barbie Party
by Jennifer Bromann <bromannj@yahoo.com>
4) Need Circus Theme Ideas
by "Taylor Juvenile" <taylorjuv@hotmail.com>
5) Magazines for children's librarians
by "Betsy Johnson" <bljohnson@hdpl.org>
6) Computer Games
by "Terry Lambert, Youth Services Coordinator"
<lamberte@oplin.lib.oh.us>
7) wrong address
by "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
8) homework centers-futher info
by "Keener, Lesa" <LKeener@acmail.aclink.org>
9) Stumper
by Rjohc@aol.com
10) Job Posting- Kansas City
by Dennielle@aol.com
11) a wave of a thanks
by "ysstaff" <ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
12) Wings Stumper--the answers
by Heather Rogers <hrogers@fvrl.org>
13) Simpsons party help?
by marthajack@att.net
14) What do you call your area?
by Cassie Wilson <cwilson2@kent.edu>
15) The more things change, the more they stay the same...
by Lin_Look/staff/cccl%LIBRARY@contra-costa.lib.ca.us
16) STUMPER abandoned kids
by "Kathleen Gasi" <kzalargasi2@hotmail.com>
17) CIPA trial wraps third day
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
18) library unions
by "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
19) Running a carnival or Fun Fair
by Gena Florio <floriog@bpl.on.ca>
20) Indian bones stumper solved!
by "Cathy Ormsby" <COrmsby@sanantonio.gov>
21) CIPA trial recesses until Monday
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
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From: Clara Sheffer <csheffer@nileslibrary.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: big books
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I am having a hard time finding sources for big books (the oversize
paperbound ones that are so nice for large storytimes) We have a nibasic
collection, but I would love to order more, and am having a hard time
finding publishers and knowing what is in print. Any ideas would be much
appreciated. Thanks!
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From: Adamko <padamko@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: stumper
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:13 CST
Many thanks to all who responded to the title stumper about the man who
lived in a row house that looked like everyone else's . The book is Mr.
Pine's Purple House by Leonard Kessler.What a group! I knew you would come
through for me. Thanks. Pat
Pat Adamko,
Young Adult Librarian
Comsewogue Public Library
170 Terryville Road
Port Jefferson Station, N.Y. 11776
(631) 928-1212 email: padamko@suffolk.lib.ny.us
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From: Jennifer Bromann <bromannj@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Barbie Party
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:19 CST
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Barbie party?
We will be decorating little doll hats from the craft
store, playing a game where they pick a career (even
though some are only in preschool), designing paper
clothes and hairstyles, and I bought sticker books to
give them each a sheet of stickers and paper dolls.
But since I haven't played with dolls in a long time I
cannot think of many games. Thanks.
Jennifer Bromann
Head of Youth Services
Prairie Trails Public Library
Burbank, IL
bromannj@yahoo.com
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From: "Taylor Juvenile" <taylorjuv@hotmail.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Need Circus Theme Ideas
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:26 CST
Our theme for the Summer Reading Program is Read Under the Big Top. Please
help we need game ideas for the kids when they come in to the
library.
Angela Flach
Taylor Memorial Library
Cuy. Falls
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From: "Betsy Johnson" <bljohnson@hdpl.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Magazines for children's librarians
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:31 CST
we will be opening a new library soon. I am compiling a list of
professional periodicals for the children's department. I already have
School Library Journal, Horn Book, The Bulletin, Copycat and Book Links. I
am considering Storytime Treasures. Does anyone have another good
magazine?
Especially storytime or craft related?
Please send answers to bljohnson@hdpl.org
and I will compile a list to post.
Thanks,
Betsy Johnson
Children's Librarian
Henderson District Public Libraries, NV
bljohnson@hdpl.org
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From: "Terry Lambert, Youth Services Coordinator" <lamberte@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: PUBYAC Listserve servi <pubyac@prairienet.org>,
Oplin List Serve <OPLINLIST@oplin.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Computer Games
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:37 CST
Hi Everyone,
I would like to know if anyone who uses/has computer games on the
computers in their library, has any suggestions, favorites etc. to
recommend. I will be getting a few computers to install games only on
for the children's area and am a bit overwhelmed at the selection
available. If anyone has any suggestions on popular games with the kids,
please pass them my way at lamberte@oplin.lib.oh.us.
Thanks so much for
your help.
Terry Lambert
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From: "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: wrong address
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:51:54 CST
Hi--To those responding to my message about unions--the address to send =
those responses to is sootysue_52@yahoo.com.
Sorry about the screw-up!
thanks
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From: "Keener, Lesa" <LKeener@acmail.aclink.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: homework centers-futher info
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:52:56 CST
I have received 15 replies for information and only two actual homework
centers have sent me information. My report is due May 16th. I will send try
to compile a list of info and post it to the list after that time.
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From: Rjohc@aol.com
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:53:03 CST
Have a customer asking about a Young Adult title (he thinks) that is
fiction.
The plot involves four orphans in the 1800s. He says it is a series.
I have searched using Novelist. Does anyone know what the title may be?
Thanks.
Robyn Hammer-Clarey
Teen Librarian
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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From: Dennielle@aol.com
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Job Posting- Kansas City
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:55:50 CST
Branch Manager-Westport
The Kansas City Public Library seeks a Branch Manager for the Westport
Branch, located in a diverse community open 68 hours per week. Will be
responsible for material selection, collection maintenance, programming,
program evaluation, inter-branch loans, circulation; and staff supervision
and management. Requires MLS or its equivalent, knowledge and considerable
professional library experience. Hiring salary range begins at $42,727.37.
Closing date for applications, a completed skills questionnaire, and resume
is April 24, 2002. More information on www.kclibrary.org.
EOE Committed to
Cultural Diversity
Pat M. Hawkins,IPMA-CP
Dir. of Human Resources
Kansas City Public Library
816 701 3420
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From: "ysstaff" <ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: a wave of a thanks
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Thank you to everyone who sent ideas for our beach/vacation themed =
storytime. The storytime was a huge hit and was largely comprised of =
ideas sent out by you. Thanks again!
Alison on behalf of the entire YS Staff
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Youth Services
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire, WI 54701
(715)839-5007 - voice
(715)833-5310 - fax
www.eauclaire.lib.wi.us
ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
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From: Heather Rogers <hrogers@fvrl.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Wings Stumper--the answers
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:18 CST
Thanks to all who helped me with the stumper about the boy who grows wings!
Here is the list of suggestions I received!
"Black and Blue Magic" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder?
"Twelve-year-old Harry
Houdini Marco is awkward and clumsy, bearing
little resemblance to his magician namesake, until he
acquires the gift of
flight."
Gerstein, Mordicai: ARNOLD OF THE DUCKS
The Mail-Order Wings by Beatrice
The Little Rabbit Who Wanted
Red Wings" by Carolyn
Sherwin Bailey
Gormley.
Thanks! Heather
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From: marthajack@att.net
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Simpsons party help?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:25 CST
Hi all,
I would be so grateful for any suggestions that I could
use for my VERY FIRST YA event, a Simpsons Trivia Night
and Party, coming up in April.
Has anyone done anything about the Simpsons that they
would be willing to share?
I have some Trivia questions so far and that's about it.
Maybe a cartooning contest?
My YAC group is not being very realistic with their
suggestions of fun activities, for example, they want to
have a rootbeer chugging contest.
Yikes!
Thanks for any suggestions or moral support.
Martha Jackson
mjackson@bel-tib-lib.org
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From: Cassie Wilson <cwilson2@kent.edu>
To: PUBYAC <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: What do you call your area?
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:33 CST
Dear Pubyacers (Pubyacists? Pubyacians?)
Many of you share a similar position to mine as librarian to
both
children and young adults. If
you have separate areas for the two and have signs posted for either or
both, what words do you use
on those signs? We can't decide whether to say, "children" or
"youth,"
since the Young Adult area
is on the other side of the building. My office and the main Youth
Services
desk, however, are near
the Children's area, and I don't want YA's to label me in their minds as the
"Children's Librarian"
or be reluctant to walk over to the desk to ask a question. This may sound
extremely petty, but I
think names and words are very important. Creating just the right effect
or
image is important,
especially in an effort to draw teens into the library. It's bad enough
that I sometimes wear
clothing with flowers on it or pants with some elastic in the waists; I
don't want to alienate the
teens totally. ; )
Anybody have any bright ideas? I hope so. Please send
them--as soon as
possible--to my
individual address, and I'll share results later if anyone should happen to
be interested in what
must sound like a really pedantic issue.
Cassie Wilson
cwilson2@kent.edu
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From: Lin_Look/staff/cccl%LIBRARY@contra-costa.lib.ca.us
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:40 CST
Reading through a number of our branch's annual reports, and came across
this in a 1963 report:
"Most common of all disciplinary needs are overloud talking,...horseplay,
and consumption of food. Staff memebers have also had to control...card
playing, sitting on tables...,mutilation of library materials, writing on
table surfaces, throwing of objects, consumption of beverages,...sound
producing toys employed by adolescents, live animals,...uncontrolled
behavior in the restrooms, including writing on walls and leaving stall
doors locked...firecrackers, water balloons, destruction of plantings,
etc."
They didn't have to police Internet usage, but on the other hand, they did
have to control smoking in the library.
The kids we get today are much better behaved than the previous generation!
Lin Look
Contra Costa County, CA
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From: "Kathleen Gasi" <kzalargasi2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: STUMPER abandoned kids
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:46 CST
Just the other day I read a stumper request about kids abandoned by their
parents. Wouldn't you know, I no sooner deleted my messages and a patron
comes in with the following description of a book (I don't know if this
would be the same book as the previous stumper):
A family is on vacation in Florida, in a hotel or motel that offers
babysitting. The parents decide on a day out without the kids and leave
them at the babysitting service but never return. Eventually the kids take
it upon themselves to return home to Ohio by themselves. The book focuses
on their journey back. When they get home, they find a note "if you
make it
back here, call this number". Come to find out, Mom and Dad were in
an
accident, the kids left before the connection could be made, Mom and Dad are
o.k. and all are reunited for a happy ending. The book is from the late
60s
- early 70s and the patron remembers it being shelved as adult fiction in
the middle of the alphabet (M-N-O-P). She thought the author was maybe
Daniel Mannix, but all searches turn up nothing. Sure hope you can
help--it
would be much appreciated!
Kathy Gasi
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: CIPA trial wraps third day
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:52 CST
CIPA trial wraps third day
http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipatrial3.html
"Of particular note yesterday was the concession from the
government's own expert witness that all filters necessarily
overblock and underblock online materials," said ALA attorney Theresa
Chmara of Jenner and Block. "This confirms the testimony of ALA
experts, and confirms that legal and useful information is being
restricted by blocking software."
__________________________
Don Wood
Program Officer/Communications
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html
intellectual freedom @ your library
Free People Read FreelyŽ
"Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek
and receive information from all points of view without restriction.
It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which
any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.
Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and
disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html
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From: "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: library unions
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:59 CST
Dear pubyakkers
This is a sensitive subject, but I'd like to hear from anyone out there =
who has had experience with unionized libraries--our staff has been =
contacted by a union rep. and management's response is that a union is =
neither necessary nor advisable. I am on the fence--I see some =
advantages (more pay? equitable working conditions) but I have heard of =
some disadvantages(unions are expensive, little grievances can be blown =
out of proportion), and somewhere along the line I got the idea that =
those of us with an MLS are somehow not supposed to need a union --can =
anyone give me a balanced point of view?
Please reply to me at sootysue@yahoo.com.
Thanks
Susan
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From: Gena Florio <floriog@bpl.on.ca>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Running a carnival or Fun Fair
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:57:05 CST
I've just hosted my 6th annual March Break Fun Fair, so I have a few good
ideas for doing
this. The first year was a bit of work, but it's been easier every year
since, as I
carefully put away everything I used and just hauled it out the next year.
First of all,
we sell 15 tickets for 3.00 (price hasn't changed in 6 yrs- the best value
in town!)...
buy ahead or at the door. In our Program Room we set up several very easy
and very home-
made 'games of chance'...a fish pond using hooks made from paperclips
dangling from
painted wooden spoons and fish cut our from foam board, floating in 2
courier boxes full
of water. There is a ring toss of cut-out margarine lids thrown over glass
juice bottles
full of coloured water; home-made bean bags thrown into the cut-out mouth of
a foam-board
lion or several decorated boxes; mini-putt into a large coffee tin,
pin-the-nose-on the
clown/pin-the-tie-on-Arthur/pin-the-wand-on-the-Wizard(a discard from a
bookstore).
Colourful signs and streamers decorate this room. Outside in the childrens
area we have
cupcake decorating(made by a willing volunteer),face painting, animal
balloons and the
last two years a young lad from the community who does magic shows every
twenty minutes
for the afternoon. We staff the Fair with all of our pages and as many teen
volunteers as
we can round up. The attendees give a ticket (available at any Dollar Store)
for each
activity and can purchase extras at the door. There are several draws
throughout the
event as well(again,little cheapies picked up during the year, or
donatedions from locale
merchants). Every child gets something for every effort- we round up all
sorts
of "prizes"- bookmarks, stickers,suckers donated by a neighbourly
Variety
store,
leftovers from Summer Reading Programs, whatever! Keep it cheap and
plentiful. When the
children arrive they recieve a paper lunch bag to put stuff in. Every year I
introduce
something new or different ie: changing the 'pin-the-whatever' or adding an
entertainer
(this year I had a fellow who juggles and needed to do some volunteer time).
All in all
it's been a great success- over 125 people are milling around, it's hot,
noisy, lucrative
and much,much fun! Most importantly, it services lots and lots of kids at
once. I bribe
all my teen helpers into cleaning up after, with pizza and pop and send each
of them a
letter to thank them and verify their volunteer hours. It is perfectly
suited for younger
children, nothing is too hard and everything gets them a prize. I usually
make a
substantial amount of money to fund other crafty activities through the year
(that's why
we've had no price inflation!) I know it sounds like tons of work, but it's
fairly
concentrated and only once a year, and all of us know it's worth it,from
both positive
feed-back and happy little folks who keep coming back!
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From: "Cathy Ormsby" <COrmsby@sanantonio.gov>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Indian bones stumper solved!
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Much thanks to many of you who responded to my stumper about finding =
bones at the bottom of the lake. There were several titles that matched =
the description, but the one the patron had remembered was Skeleton =
Woman by Alberto Villoldo. The patron was pleased, and very impressed =
that we were able to locate the book. (Of course, all credit went to =
Pubyac!)
Cathy Ormsby
San Antonio Public Library
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: CIPA trial recesses until Monday
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CIPA trial recesses until Monday
http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipatrial4.html
"Once again, government witnesses conceded key points in the ALA's
case," said ALA attorney Theresa Chmara of Jenner and Block. "Like
Ft. Vancouver (Wash.) librarian Candace Morgan, Mr. Cronin testified
that legal information should be freely available on the Internet in
libraries for users."
__________________________
Don Wood
Program Officer/Communications
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html
intellectual freedom @ your library
Free People Read FreelyŽ
"Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek
and receive information from all points of view without restriction.
It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which
any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.
Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and
disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html
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