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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: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 801
PUBYAC Digest 801
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Training pages
by Amy Blake <ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us>
2) Re: comic books
by "Grace Slaughter" <gslaughter@bham.lib.al.us>
3) bookholder for bed
by Brooke Roothaan <roothaan@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
4) Re: Adopt A Shelf
by Cathryn Clark-Dawe <cathryncdlib@yahoo.com>
5) Time Travel to Incas or Aztecs Stumper
by Leslie Johnson <ljohnson@jefferson.lib.co.us>
6) Graphic novel question
by Marlyn Roberts <chaisegirl@yahoo.com>
7) laugh for the day
by rita@missoula.lib.mt.us
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From: Amy Blake <ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Training pages
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:33:47 CDT
Dear Collective Minds,
My library is looking for ways to test applicants for the page position and
clerks. If you have any forms, etc. and are willing to share them please
fax
me at 812-886-0342.
Thank you,
Amy Blake
ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us
Knox County Public Library
Vincennes, IN 47591
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From: "Grace Slaughter" <gslaughter@bham.lib.al.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: comic books
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:33:54 CDT
Hello Anne & all,
Does your library circulate magazines? If so, perhaps you can model
comic records on the magazine template. Have an umbrella record for
Superman, Archie, etc., and add individual items to that.
Speaking of circulating magazines, one of the "rules" is that the
current issue stays on display, strictly in-library-use. Only back
issues circulate. Would this be something to consider with comics?
I've been thinking of comics for my YAs my own self...
g
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From: Brooke Roothaan <roothaan@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
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Subject: bookholder for bed
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:34:00 CDT
I know someone out there has something that they either know about or
use for reading in bed, I can't seem to find places to look.(I've tried
Levenger's).What I'm looking for, or actually, a friend of mine is
looking for is something to hold her book flat, while she reads in bed.
She wants something that won't obstruct the view of the two pages as she
reads, so, a book weight won't do. Also, it sounds like from what she
tells me that she slouches, so it needs to be something that you don't
need to be sitting totally erect for in order for it to work.
TIA,
Brooke Roothaan-
Lincolnwood Public Library
Lincolnwood, IL
e-mail: brookelmroothaan@aol.com
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From: Cathryn Clark-Dawe <cathryncdlib@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Adopt A Shelf
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:34:07 CDT
There was a lot of enthusiasm for our adopt-a-shelf
program when it started, but most of the volunteers
stopped doing their shelves after just a couple of
months. I keep the program going, though, because
it's a relatively harmless way to let people volunteer
(much less frustrating than the no-shows for book prep
activities or storytimes, for instance).
Cathryn
Webster (NH) Free Public Library
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From: Leslie Johnson <ljohnson@jefferson.lib.co.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Time Travel to Incas or Aztecs Stumper
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:34:14 CDT
Hello! We have a patron who is trying to find a book that she read 20-25
years ago. Two boys travel back in time to either Aztec or Inca
cultures.
I'm afraid that's all we know.
She had a second question about an explosion (possibly nuclear?) in the
Antarctic which starts a modern ice-age. We are not sure if this is a
children's book.
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!
Leslie ljohnson@jefferson.lib.co.us
Leslie Johnson
Children's Librarian
Golden Public Library
Jefferson County Public Library
1019 Tenth St, Golden, CO 80401
303-279-4585 X 6
ljohnson@jefferson.lib.co.us
See us on the web at:
http://info.jefferson.lib.co.us/
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From: Marlyn Roberts <chaisegirl@yahoo.com>
To: Pub Yac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Graphic novel question
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:34:20 CDT
Hello, you wonderful people!
I have what I think is a stupid question, but one of
my library school profs told us that there is no such
thing as a stupid question, so I'm going to ask it
anyway.
I'm a children's librarian who has recently accepted a
position as a YA librarian. I would like to know how
those of you who purchase graphic novels for your
libraries evaluate them. How do you know what is
good? How do you decide what to purchase, apart from
their popularity?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Marlyn
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Marlyn K. Roberts
Teen Services Librarian
El Dorado Neighbourhood Library
Long Beach Public Library and Information Center
Long Beach, CA
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From: rita@missoula.lib.mt.us
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Subject: laugh for the day
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:34:27 CDT
Thought you all could identify with this.
Our Summer Reading Program theme is "Tropical Montana". We
have the children's area decorated with all sorts of tropical things,
grass skirts, fake palm trees, fish hanging from the ceiling.
Yesterday I was sitting at the children's desk (in the middle of the
children's department), I am wearing a t-shirt with the library logo
on it, I have my name tag on, a flowered lei around my neck, and a
plastic parrot taped to my shoulder. A woman came up, looked
around a bit, then asked "Do you work here?"
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Rita Smith
Missoula Public Library
301 E Main
Missoula, MT 59802
rita@missoula.lib.mt.us
406 721 2665
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"Reading a really good book is like reading a part of
the author's
heart."
(Kevin Frederick - my 9 year old son, after reading the
last of the
Indian in the Cupboard series)
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End of PUBYAC Digest 801
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