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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: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 726
PUBYAC Digest 726
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Needed: Racing Ideas
by Kevin Clement <kclement@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
2) stone soup
by "C. Sexton" <csexton@hyperaction.net>
3) companies that have reading rewards
by "Gonzales, Lynn" <GonzalesL@ci.mount-dora.fl.us>
4) FW: Book Bucks
by "Roger & Anne Hall" <annehall@iclub.org>
5) Orphan stumper
by Rjohc@aol.com
6) Job Opening
by Cynthia Wray <CWWray@ci.fargo.nd.us>
7) costume info
by "Marty Staton" <mstaton@ci.poquoson.va.us>
8) stumper : Annie and the mill?
by Janette Johnston <jj@round-rock.tx.us>
9) Responses to Library Behavior (Long)
by Sarah O'Shea <soshea@tcpl.org>
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From: Kevin Clement <kclement@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Needed: Racing Ideas
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:27:21 CST
Our Summer Reading Theme is "Race to Read." I am looking for
some ideas
to create a program geared to this theme. I thought of using a character
to tie it all together, but all I can come up with is Speed Buggy, Speed
Racer, or Evel Knievel. I am not sure how famaliar children are with
these. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks in advance
Kevin Clement
Children's Librarian
Enoch Pratt Free Library
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From: "C. Sexton" <csexton@hyperaction.net>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: stone soup
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:27:27 CST
Hi to everyone and please give me your wisdom.....I plan to do Stone
soup this summer and would like to hear from those who have had a
program......details please.
thanks so much
Carol
csexton@hyperaction.net
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From: "Gonzales, Lynn" <GonzalesL@ci.mount-dora.fl.us>
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Subject: companies that have reading rewards
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Does anyone know of any companies, fast food restaurants, etc. that may be
offering reading rewards? For instance Pizza Hut gives a free personal pan
pizza for children in schools who read X amount of books per month. Thanks
for all of your help.
Lynn,
WT Bland Public Library
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From: "Roger & Anne Hall" <annehall@iclub.org>
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Subject: FW: Book Bucks
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:27:38 CST
Some time ago (possibly last summer) someone mentioned that they give "book
bucks" as summer reading program prizes. Students could then spend these
"bucks" for items the library offered as SRP prizes. If you do
this, would
you please consider sharing with me how you do this and any words of wisdom?
Thank you very much.
Anne hall
Clark County Public Library
Winchester, KY 40391
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From: Rjohc@aol.com
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Subject: Orphan stumper
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Thanks to all who replied to the question about the four orphans set in the
1800s. Although the Kelly family consists of six siblings, the Orphan Train
Quartet highlights one sibling in each book in the series by Joan Lowery
Nixon.
We have three of the four in our young adult closed stacks. I will show the
customer next time he is in and hopefully this is what he had in mind.
Robyn Hammer-Clarey
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From: Cynthia Wray <CWWray@ci.fargo.nd.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: Job Opening
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:27:50 CST
The Fargo Public Library is seeking an energetic individual to join our
staff as a Youth Services Librarian
Degree required: ALA accredited MLS
Closing date: Until filled
Salary: $30,405
Position description: Under supervision, the incumbent will assist customers
with informational and recreational reading needs. Provide group and one on
one instruction to the public on how to use the library and its resources.
Select age appropriate resources and maintain the youth services collection.
Assist in coordinating and implementing special programs and events. Some
evening and weekend work required.
Other skills and knowledge: One to two years of professional library
experience required, preferably including experience in collection
development, library use instruction, and program development. Experience in
working with children in grades 1 through 7 required. Must be familiar with
library computer systems and the Internet.
Job setting: The Fargo Public Library is a growing library system serving a
population of nearly 100,000. Fargo has some of the best public schools in
the nation with a 98% graduation rate. The City of Fargo, a 2000 All America
City, is the largest community in the state of North Dakota. This summer the
library will be opening the first branch library in the state.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and the names of
three references to:
Charles Pace
Fargo Public Library
102 3rd St. N.
Fargo, ND 58102
Phone: 701-241-1493
Fax: 701-241-8581
www.fargolibrary.org
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From: "Marty Staton" <mstaton@ci.poquoson.va.us>
To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: costume info
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:27:56 CST
Thanks SO much to all the wonderful folks who responded to my costume
plea! I have had sooooo many requests for the info ... I am posting a
cut and paste of responses for all who are interested.
Marty Staton
mstaton@ci.poquoson.va.us
Poquoson Public Library
500 City Hall Ave.
Poquoson, VA 23662
757-868-3060
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Rolling Prairie Library System got a grant with which to buy costumes =
which
they loan to member libraries at no charge. I am sure someone there =
could
give you info on where to buy. The webpage for the costumes is at
http://www.rpls.ws/ltf/costume_page.htm
Contact info is included on the page.
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Costume Specialists
211 North Fifth St
Columbus, Ohio
614 464-2145
or
800 596-9357
fax 614 464-2114
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I have booked character costumes almost montly since
September. We've had Clifford, Winnie the Pooh, the
mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, George and
Martha and we're having Miss Spider next month. The
following is a link to a good website to find costumes
and information on how to rent them (I wasn't able to
fit the web address on one line - remember the "l" at
the end!)
http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/content/p121697a.shtml
Some costumes are free to borrow, some cost to rent,
and some you have to pay just for the shipping. It
really depends on the publisher.
I go through Mike Howard at Costume Specialists in OH
(the contact info. is on the website) They have a vast
database of all sorts of costumes and are very helpful
when scheduling them.
I'm not aware of any "official" storybook costumes you
can purchase. A lot of these characters are licensed
and are for not for profit use only. I've been told by
a costume specialist at Scholastic (home of Clifford)
it is not their policy to sell costumes. It would be
too easy for someone to charge money at a birthday
party using the costume, for example.
I have, however, seen handmade knock-offs. They
might do the trick.
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The red dog costume you saw on the website was purchased from Marylen, =
but
it in not listed on the Marylen site. Not sure why. It is in the =
catalog
on page 97 - #851 w/out overalls. We requested it be made in red =
instead of
brown. Hope this helps! (This is $700 !)
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Did anyone get back to you about Costume Specialists? I just rented the
Peter RAbbit costume and shared it with the daycares and another =
library.
It was absolutely wonderful and $120 that included all shipping and
handling. If you still need the phone #, please let me know. I think
=
they
are located in OH. I do not know who would see costumes... the ones =
you'd
want are copyrighted and as far as I know, are unavailable. What a =
parent
did for me was to make a costume and we gave it a different name from =
the
storybook character. It is just enough different (colored clothing, =
ears
slightly different) as to not infringe on copyright laws
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From: Janette Johnston <jj@round-rock.tx.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: stumper : Annie and the mill?
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A patron is looking for a picture book and the title she thinks she
remembers is Annie and the Mill. Annie lives between Greenville and
Blueville and is trying to figure out where she fits in, possibly by
dressing in the different colors. The patron thinks the book is about 20
years old.
I've checked A to Zoo, amazon, and children literature web guide, in
addition to our catalog. TIA!
Janette Johnston, Children's Services Manager
Round Rock Public Library System
Robert G. and Helen Griffith Library Building
216 E. Main
Round Rock, TX 78664
512-218-7002
jj@round-rock.tx.us
http://www.ci.round-rock.tx.us
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From: Sarah O'Shea <soshea@tcpl.org>
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Subject: Responses to Library Behavior (Long)
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:28:09 CST
I have had some requests to post the responses I received. Sorry I
didn't before, but I did not have any requests to do so until now!
Enjoy the wisdom of our peers...
My original request:
"Our children's department has been having problems with behavior here
in
the department. Mainly children AND PARENTS being too loud or running
and treating the department like a jungle gym.
We have begun to improve our signage, but as well all know, people do
not usually read/heed signs.
My question to this wonderful group is, does anyone have any
suggestions, etc. on a fun way to discuss behavior with class visits?
An activity, a coloring sheet? Anything that wouldn't bore the children
to death but will get the idea across to them that there are ways to act
while visiting the library.
Our thinking is perhaps we can use this captive audience to stress
appropriate library behavior to the children that visit with their
classes in hopes they will remember how to behave when they are here
with their parents as well.
I have found some things on treating books properly (bookmarks, etc.),
but have not found anything discussing behavior at the library.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advice!
Sarah O'Shea
Tompkins County Public Library
Ithaca, NY
soshea@tcpl.org"
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The responses:
Hi Sarah,
There is a poster in the Demco "Promotions" catalog (it is also online
at www.demco.com - you can search by product
number RC1312592) It is
titled "Be a Good Library Citizen". Some of it deals with books
and
some is about behavior, like speaking quietly and returning things on
time...and some of it the print is too small for me to read! So, you may
want to call them (1 800 356 1200) and ask them to read you what's on
the poster. They also have bookmarks but they seem to deal more with
book care.
Hope this helps,
April
P.S. I just thought of this: if you can't find anything pre-made you can
make a crossword or search-a-word that relates to library behavior at
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
April Mazza
Youth Services
Wayland Free Public Library
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Sarah,
I've done entire storytimes on libraries and manners. It's a good way
to segue into proper behavior at the library. We play a library manners
game in both storytimes that works well up to about kindergarten age:
My mascot at all storytimes is "Honey Bear," a signing bear, so we
call
the game "Honey Bear's Library Manners Game." I made a simple
stick
puppet with a smiling bear on one side and a sad bear on the other.
Then I pose various scenarios to the children. ("Honey Bear uses an
indoor voice at the library." "When Honey Bear likes a story, he
stands
so he can see the pictures better.") The children say either
"Glad
bear" or "Sad bear" to the scenario. You can customize the
game to
whatever behavior you wish to encourage. This is a good way to open a
discussion of the answers so the children understand why a certain
behavior is appropriate or not in the library.
When discussing book care, Honey Bear becomes the "Book Doctor" and we
play the "Book Doctor Game."
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Sarah,
What about sitting the kids down and doing some role playing.
For
example, you could ask for a couple of volunteers and then give them a
situation to act out such as running around the library or shouting or
some
thing like that and have them exaggerate it so that it is funny to the
other
kids. Then you could ask the group for suggestions as to how the two
volunteers could have handled their situation differently. Does that
make
sense? If not, let me know and I will try to rephrase.
Juli
Juli Huston
Student - iSchool University of Washington
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Sarah,
My favorite story for class visits is Eric Kimmel's _I took my frog to
the library_.
g
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Hmmm... I am not sure that doing a storytime activity about good library
behavior would work... after all, the kids that come to my storytimes
are
not the ones that make the most noise in the building. (It would feel a
bit
like "preaching to the choir.")
Maybe you could make a humorous (but pointed) bulletin board
highlighting
some of the problem behaviors as done by chimpanzees with the legend,
"Don't
go ape in the library!"
Mary Helen Sakellarios
Palm Springs Public Library
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Hello Sarah,
I don't know
if this will help, but this is what I do when I
discuss behavior with visiting classes.
Basically I try to make my
presentations very interactive. I
talk to them about why the library is a quiet place--"Can you do your
homework when your mom is on the phone, your big sister is listening to
the radio, your big brother is watching tv, the baby is crying, etc..."
This elicits a big "NO!" from the group. then we talk about what you
can
and can't do in the library. "Can you play baseball in the library?
Can you run the 50 yard dash? etc...Where can you do those things?"
Then I talk about how you can still have fun in the library--ie, you can
read about baseball, track and field, etc so that when you play outside
you will be a better player. That sort of thing. We also talk about
using your library voice and we do some role playing with that. I will
yell at people across the room and then ask the kids what I should do
instead of the yelling. All of this seems to get the point across.
Some kids have come in afterwards with their parents and talked to me so
quietly that I can't hear
I am not sure what to do
about the parent behavior part, but I
might add that into my spiel somehow. "Pretend I am your mom..."
Hope
you get some good ideas from others too!
Brendle Wells
Youth Services Librarian
Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library
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Dear Sarah:
I've been experiencing the same problem. The children were leaving
books and toys on the floor. This happened during
school storytime visits especially. I decided to talk to the children
about this, during all of my storytimes. First I did a little
demonstration, such as taking the books off of the shelf and leaving
them on the floor. Dumping the toys on
the floor and not picking them up etc. The kids thought this was funny
and they didn't hesitate to let me know what I did wrong.
Then I went over to my easel and the children gave me suggestions on
"library rules." They had great ideas and since our
discussion I haven't had the usual problems. I posted the rules and
gave the children credit for their ideas. I have done
this with preschoolers and kindergartners. Hope this helps.
Lisa Stone
Children's Services Coordinator
Berthoud Public Library, Colorado
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How about some dramatic acting out of scenarios where the children could
tell you if the behavior is
appropriate. You could make it really funny in the process, really
overacting it and making it humorous
but still driving the point home. Good luck!
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The kindergarteners and first graders come for tours every May. I tell
them before we start the tour how to conduct themselves in our library:
"This isn't like the school library. No whispering allowed.
Treat
the library like your home. Talk in a normal voice but don't yell,
because you don't yell inside your house. <smile brightly> You
can't
run inside either, or jump on the furniture. You can't fight or spit
on each other. As we're walking around, if you see a book on the shelf
that looks good, pick it up and look at it. When you're done, put it
on a table or bookcart, but not back where you found it. If you put
the books back, we won't have anything to do later!."
The kids are encouraged to make normal conversation and be comfortable
in the library. They are surprised at first that they can make a
little noise here, but then when we don't yell at them, they relax and
have fun. The teachers that bring the kids are harder to convince that
noise is ok. Later that day, we get lots of kids dragging their
parents in after school to get a library card.
Connie Ward
Syracuse Public Library
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