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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: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 820
PUBYAC Digest 820
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Stumper
by "Martha Jordan" <mjordan@ouachita.lib.la.us>
2) Re: Beginning Reader organization
by "Pat Link" <plink@cwmars.org>
3) Stumper
by "Michelle Ballard" <michelleb@mail.sgcl.org>
4) fantastic website!
by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
5) Re: Question about bins vs. regular shelves
by Cindy Christin <christin@mtlib.org>
6) Re: Children's Book Week (fwd)
by Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>
7) Re: Teen Spaces in Libraries
by "C. Sexton" <csexton@hyperaction.net>
8) Re: Beginning Reader organization
by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
9) Re: Question about bins vs. regular shelves
by Susan Williams <williamssu@earthlink.net>
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From: "Martha Jordan" <mjordan@ouachita.lib.la.us>
To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:49:35 CDT
Hello, Collective Brain,
A patron here is looking for an old book--maybe from the 50's--about a
little girl, possibly named Claire, who loved shoes. She got several pairs
for her birthday, but was disappointed some months later when she outgrew
them all and couldn't wear them anymore.
Sound familiar to anyone? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Martha Jordan
Ouachita Parish Public Library
Monroe, LA 71201
mjordan@ouachita.lib.la.us
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From: "Pat Link" <plink@cwmars.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Reader organization
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:49:41 CDT
We have an early reader section that includes those books that are
the VERY beginning level through those such as Henry & Mudge.
We have them cataloged & with spine labels ( jER Parish) &
shelved in our Early Reader area. The next level - early chapter
books- we shelve with our regular fiction but with yellow tape on the
spine, indicating shorter, with some pictures & often with larger
print books.
Hope this helps.
Pat Link
Children's Librarian
Northborough Free Library
Northborough, MA 01532
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From: "Michelle Ballard" <michelleb@mail.sgcl.org>
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Subject: Stumper
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:49:48 CDT
Stumper:
I have a patron who read a juvenile fiction (possibly YA) title
about two girls who live in England and switch places. The setting
is World War II. Patron thought one of the girl's name was
Shona. The rest of the story is about how one of the girl's life
turns out because of the switch they made. At the end of the story
the girl's are grown women and are reunited. One girl goes to the
United States and the other stays in England.
If anyone out has a clue to the title of this book I would greatly
appreciate it. The patron said she read this in the late 70's or
early 80's.
Thanks in Advance
Michelle Ballard
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From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: fantastic website!
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:49:54 CDT
A co-worker just told me about a great site for
coloring sheets. It's in German so you have to select
the English option. But it has over 3000 different
coloring sheets that can be printed out. They are all
broken up into alphabetical topics. I did notice a few
Disney things and some others that make me a bit
curious about copyright rules on some of them but
there are plenty of generic topics too.
Enjoy!
http://www.kleurplezier.net
~jennifer
Fresno Co. Library
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~jenniferbaker
"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist."
~ Jocasta Nu (librarian from "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the
Clones")
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From: Cindy Christin <christin@mtlib.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Question about bins vs. regular shelves
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We use picture book bins and I love them. . . ours are Highsmith book
browsers, and stand about 2 or 3 feet high. They are wonderful for kids to
get their hands on books, but frustrating to look for a specific book. So
my recommendation would be to use color-coded tape, or tape with letters,
for each letter of the alphabet on the top of the book spine. So all the
books by authors that start with A would be in one bin (or 2 or 3!),
followed by the others. We have combined some letters like XYZ.
Let me know if you have more questions,
Cindy
At 08:04 PM 7/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>We are in the process of building a new library branch and the shelving
>units the architects/interior designers are recommending for our easy
>picturebooks includes bins. The bins are on the top of the shelves
with
>one row of regular shelving underneath each one. Do any of you have
>experience with this type of shelving? If so, what are the pros and
>cons? What about keeping the books in order? Are they easy to
find?
>Any responses would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Stacey Irish-Keffer
>YS Librarian
>Denton Public Library
>Denton, Texas
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From: Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>
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Subject: Re: Children's Book Week (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:50:09 CDT
This sounds like a great idea. Does anyone have a title suggestion? How
about McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings or Burton's Little House, two of
th earliest Caldecott's that are likely to still be in print or
something like Good night Moon that "everyone" has read and is simple
emough for baby and toddler programs but that older kids wouldn't mind
hearing again. Also it would be a good one to suggest for a community read
in as many families own a copy.
Just what I need, more programming ideas! It is sort of like knitting
projects everytime I go to the yarn store everything looks great and I
severly underestimate how long it will take to finish!
Julie Rines
jrines@ocln.org
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From: Dorothy Williams <Dorothy@peabody.whitleynet.org>
Reply-To: pubyac@prairienet.org
To: bryce@palsplus.org, pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Children's Book Week
I liked the idea that Australian libraries were all going to read the same
book for story time that week. I looked and the book that they are using
is
not available in the USA, but we could still do something like that, a
nationwide story time.
dorothy@peabody.whitleynet.org
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From: "C. Sexton" <csexton@hyperaction.net>
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Subject: Re: Teen Spaces in Libraries
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:50:16 CDT
No paperback racks or shelves? go to your local k-mart wal-mart or dollar
store and get some BIG baskets ( wicker type) and place the paperbacks,
magazines, graphic novels, or cd's in them.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ILefkowitz@aol.com>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Teen Spaces in Libraries
> My library underwent a complete renovation/addition project about a year
> ago. With it we were able to create a YA area. It isn't much
but so far
> the kids seem to enjoy it. One thing that we did do that I absolutely
> recommend is to have comfortable seating. We made a little reading
area
> with four small upholstered club chairs and a little table, similar to an
> end table. This gives the teens a place to just plop themselves and
their
> stuff. On the end table we have the current issues of the teen
magazines
we
> subscribe to. So far it is a big hit! One thing I wish we had
but don't
is
> at least one spinner rack or smaller display area for paperbacks.
Can't
> have everything. Good luck!
>
>
> Ilene Lefkowitz
> Reference Department Head
> Kinnelon Public Library
> ILefkowitz@aol.com
>
>
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From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Reader organization
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:50:23 CDT
At my old library we used to do mark easy readers with
different colored tape (Blue, Yellow & Red) at the top
of the spine to indicate levels of difficulty. We
started out using the book "Beyond Picture Books" to
decide which levels the books were at but ended up
doing it ourselves by our best guess, mostly since it
was faster and newer titles weren't in it. We
explained to people that it was not at all scientific
it was just our way of helping them pick through a
very large collection (my old library was blessed with
about 20 times more readers than my new one) and find
what was right for them. We didn't say "these" are for
first grade or "these" are for second. We just said by
our somewhat educated evaluation we found some to be
easier or harder than others. Usually I would suggest
that kids give a book the "Goldilocks Test"...pick one
from the middle (Yellow) group and decide if that was
too easy or too hard or just right and then go from
there to find other books that fit their speed. It
seemed to work very well and parents certainly
appreciated it.
~jennifer
Fresno Co. Library
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~jenniferbaker
"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist."
~ Jocasta Nu (librarian from "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the
Clones")
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
http://health.yahoo.com
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From: Susan Williams <williamssu@earthlink.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Question about bins vs. regular shelves
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:50:30 CDT
>
Hi Stacey,
While I have heard many praises sung about bins, let me tell you my
experience
with them as a patron.
I am a very tall woman. My library installed the bins when my son was about
4,
and we simply stopped looking at picture books. The bins were too low for
me,
and trying to search through the the bins was painful and frustrating. They
were
too low to just bend down for, too high to sit on the floor for, and too
large
to sit on a scooter stool and try to search through. There was absolutely no
way
I could get any sort of balance or comfortable position.
I personally hate bins with an absolute, implacable passion. We do not have
them
in the library where I currently work, thank heavens.
Other people, of course, have had more positive experiences with bins.
Susan Williams
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
Clark County Library
Young People's Librarian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pubyac@prairienet.org
[mailto:owner-pubyac@prairienet.org]On
> Behalf Of Stacey Irish
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:05 PM
> To: pubyac@prairienet.org
> Subject: Question about bins vs. regular shelves
>
> We are in the process of building a new library branch and the shelving
> units the architects/interior designers are recommending for our easy
> picturebooks includes bins. The bins are on the top of the shelves
with
> one row of regular shelving underneath each one. Do any of you have
> experience with this type of shelving? If so, what are the pros and
> cons? What about keeping the books in order? Are they easy to
find?
> Any responses would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Stacey Irish-Keffer
> YS Librarian
> Denton Public Library
> Denton, Texas
>
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