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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 958
PUBYAC Digest 958
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil LookInnocent
by "Megan Vanderhart" <VanDerME@ri.lincon.org>
2) Re: beginning readers
by Jo Hick <johick_2000@yahoo.com>
3) Re: TWIST mag for teens... (fwd)
by Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>
4) Re: TWIST mag for teens...
by "C.A. LeBlanc" <claire_oldsmar@hotmail.com>
5) RE: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged
by "Little, Ellen" <littell@pts.edu>
6) shelf lists
by Joan Stokes <jrstokes@yahoo.com>
7) RE: TWIST mag for teens...
by "Sophie Brookover" <sophie@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
8) cd collection
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
9) Halloween, Twist
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
10) Stumper:princesses, cartoon, 1980s
by Marin <marinj@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
11) stumper
by "mary thornton" <mthornton@techline.com>
12) Stumper: Santa and Jesus story
by DIANA MARTIN <dmartin@kcpl.lib.in.us>
13) How is youth librarianship changing?
by Janet Eckert <jcape52@yahoo.com>
14) Programming
by Anne Fescharek <annfes@yahoo.com>
15) a maze website!
by "Julia McLean" <ozimekju@oplin.lib.oh.us>
16) Winter Songs / Poetry
by Heather Ujhazy <heatherlynnu@yahoo.com>
17) Santa and the Christ Child Stumper
by DIANA MARTIN <dmartin@kcpl.lib.in.us>
18) Looking for an online source for children's music
by April Mazza <amazza@minlib.net>
19) Source for pre-made foam visors/large wiggle eyes...
by "Barbara Scott" <barbarascott@hotmail.com>
20) RE: TWIST mag for teens...
by Erin Helmrich <helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us>
21) Re: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil Look
by "Beth McFarland" <BMCFARLAND@cml.lib.oh.us>
22) Re: bully and fitting in juvenile fiction
by "Jerri Heid" <jheid@ci.clive.ia.us>
23) After school programs
by Erika Burge <eburge@esls.lib.wi.us>
24) RE: TWIST mag for teens...
by Edward Goldberg <mg48tcgrn@yahoo.com>
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From: "Megan Vanderhart" <VanDerME@ri.lincon.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil LookInnocent
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:28:06 CST
Friends,
Please allow me to offer comments towards a more balanced perspective on
this problem without an eruption. I will keep my thoughts on the books
themselves to a minimum, and simply ask for sensitivity towards the
families. I really don't want to open up a huge discussion on the pros and
cons of Harry Potter; I simply want to ask for consideration.
"Yet everyone that has read them thinks they are wonderful."
I must beg to differ. *Most* people who have read them have praised them,
but there are some whose tastes prefer other titles, authors and genres.
Parents who are concerned about these issues are acting on the convictions
of their conscience. Most of them have not read Harry Potter simply
because they do not have the time, and have no recourse except to hear
from those they trust.
Why aren't they asking librarians for advice on what their children should
read? As professionals who know and love children and the books that are
written for them, shouldn't we recognize that as not every child is for
every book, not every book is for every child, either? Can we be willing
to offend one conservative group while showing such respect for other
religions? The recent Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Ramadan decoration issue
is one example. We who are eager to serve the public can at least respect,
if we do not agree with, those whose beliefs differ from our own.
I am only asking for sensitivity. Right or wrong, they are doing what they
believe is best.
Freedom TO read must allow the freedom NOT to read.
My opinions are my own.
Megan E. VanderHart
Children's Room/Homeschool Resource Center
Rock Island Public Library
401 19th St.
Rock Island, IL 61201
(309)732-7304
VanderME@ri.lincon.org
www.rbls.lib.il.us/rip/crhome.html
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From: Jo Hick <johick_2000@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: beginning readers
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:29:39 CST
In our small public library we have three sections in
the children's area: Junior Fiction, Easy Reader
Fiction, and Children's Non-Fiction. We previously
had two separate sections in Non-Fiction (easy reader
and junior) and found that our volunteer shelvers
found this confusing along with the patrons. We now
put them all together with a CH above the dewey
numbers (CH 001.5 Bra). We figured this would not
only make it easier for shelving, but also easier for
patrons who, for example, are looking for a picture of
a badger they can go to the children's non-fiction
shelf and find all the books available on that subject
in one place instead of the two previous ones. They
can decide if the text is appropriate or not. This
change has also increased circulation.
Jo Hick
Phillips Public Library
Phillips, WI
--- Debbie Chevron <dchevron@ci.camas.wa.us>
wrote:
> We just started an Easy Non-Fiction section next to
> the Easy Readers.
> We catalog them like this E 595.4 AUTHOR
>
> >>> lobolocomal@hotmail.com
12/17/02 08:30AM >>>
>
> I am interested in how other libraies handle
> Beginning Readers that
> are
> nonfiction. Do you put them in with nonfiction or
> Beginning Reader
> and why?
> Also if you are in a system and everyone does not
> want them in the
> same
> location is it possible to catalogue them in
> separate sections?
>
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From: Julie Ann Rines <jrines@ocln.org>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: TWIST mag for teens... (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:41:45 CST
Anyone care to enlighten those of us who don't get TWIST I'm curious but I
refuse to go need the bookstore at the mall this week to check it out.
Julie Rines
jrines@ocln.org
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:58:40 CST
From: Dawn Sardes <Dawn.Sardes@euclidlibrary.org>
Reply-To: pubyac@prairienet.org
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: TWIST mag for teens...
I think that this article would have brought me great comfort at age 14.
Dawn Sardes
Teen Services Librarian
Euclid Public Library
Dawn.Sardes@euclidlibrary.org
216-261-5300, ext. 138
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the
answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a
library, the doors to learning are always open."
-Laura Bush, First Lady, June 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: Erin Helmrich <helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us>
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2002 0:10 am
Subject: TWIST mag for teens...
> Dear Friends --
>
> Those of you out there who have a subscription to TWIST magazine:
> haveyou looked at your Jan. 2003 issue with Justin Timberlake?
> Take a peak at
> p. 92 -- I'm interested to hear what anyone else thinks...
>
> ;>
> Erin
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From: "C.A. LeBlanc" <claire_oldsmar@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: TWIST mag for teens...
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:42:56 CST
I don't get this magazine, so now I am totally intrigued...
WHAT are you all talking about? A link or explanation would satisfy my
curiosity!!
Thanks!! :)
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From: "Little, Ellen" <littell@pts.edu>
To: "'mel@thinkers.org'" <mel@thinkers.org>,
pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:44:25 CST
Just so you know - in some Christian circles, there is an all-out war on
Halloween. Many Christians don't participate in any of the activities,
keep
their children home from school during the parties, etc. These are most
likely the same people who object to Harry Potter, so they are being
consistent.
Ellen Little
Barbour Library
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
616 North Highland Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
412/441-3304 x2274
-----Original Message-----
From: Melanie [mailto:linuxgrrlv2@yahoo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:59 PM
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged
I just have a few points of rebuttal:
1.For it to be Wicca J.K. Rowling would have had to
mention 'the Great Goddess' at least once, and frankly
the books don't mention religion at all. This might
make fundamentalist readers itchy, but it doesn't make
it evil.
2. According to the book evil is something which is to
be thwarted and feared.
3. Just because it mentions magic that doesn't make it
evil. C.S. Lewis wrote books about magic, and he was
an exremely Christian man, and a theologian to boot.
4. My husband is Christian and I am Buddhist. We both
loved the books and know that it is merely
entertainment. Imagination is a marvelous tool for
helping you to come to grips with scary and
thought-provoking things.
5. If Harry Potter offends, then perhaps there should
be an all-out war on Hallow'een, which encourages
young children to dress up as scary and evil creatures
to go around and get candy. This holiday has further
reaching penetration into our society than even the
Harry Potter books. However, I can't see something
that brings joy to children being removed so easily
from our society... Harry Potter included.
Just my $0.02, and perhaps I should just do the 'cover
my butt' routine and mention that my opinions do not
in any way represent those of my employer.
~Melanie Burrett
CAP Youth
Tavistock Public Library, ON
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From: Joan Stokes <jrstokes@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: shelf lists
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:45:19 CST
Dear Pubyakkers,
Our library is doing an informal survey -
1. How many of you maintain a shelf list in your library?
2. If you do, do you plan on keeping it long term?
3. If you have gotten rid of it, do you ever miss it?
4. Does your library have a back up system to keep a record of your
materials if your computers crash?
Please respond to me at jrstokes@yahoo.com
- Many thanks in advance!
Joan Stokes
Southbury Public Library
Southbury, CT. 06488
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From: "Sophie Brookover" <sophie@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: TWIST mag for teens...
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:46:18 CST
For the benefit of those of us who do not have TWIST magazine in our
libraries, would you be willing to share the subject matter of the article
you're discussing? While you're at it, can one or more of you comment on
TWIST's overall quality? If it's good, I'd like to ask our serials
librarian to subscribe to it for our young patrons. Thanks!
Sophie
***********************
Sophie Brookover
Youth Services Librarian
Mount Laurel Library
100 Walt Whitman Avenue
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
tel: 856.234.7319 x.336
e: sophie@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: cd collection
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:47:17 CST
Just a note on cd's--watch the rest rooms. We had people burning or
melting off the security cases.
Bonita
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Halloween, Twist
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:48:22 CST
Actually, there -was- an all-out war on Halloween about ten years ago,
but it kind of fizzled around here.
For those who don't get it, the article in Twist is really cool--it's
about different kinds of breasts, and what a wide range is normal. It
has a bunch of photos of pairs of breasts--small, large, upright,
saggy, even, lopsided, big nipples and small--accompanying a question
and answer section. Really good stuff, and they should do one about
penises for the boys, but they probably won't.
Bonita
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From: Marin <marinj@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper:princesses, cartoon, 1980s
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:49:31 CST
I have a patron who is looking for a video that she used to rent
constantly for her daughter in the 1980s. It is a cartoon about two
princesses, one good, one evil/bad, who are fighting and fall down a well
into another land where they have to do everything for themselves (cook,
clean, etc). She thought that the word "family" might figure into the
title or the production company. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
A possible false lead:
I did come across CARE BEARS FABULOUS FABLES which has the story
"The Two Princesses" in which Gram Bear tells the story of Princess
Cheer
& Princess Treat Heart. I couldn't find any additional info. I would think
that Care Bears would stick out in the memory, but if anyone else has add.
info on this episode, it might confirm or refute this lead.
Thanks in advance.
Jen Marin
marinj@suffolk.lib.ny.us
South Country Library
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From: "mary thornton" <mthornton@techline.com>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: stumper
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:50:32 CST
Hello all I hope you can identify this disney film for me. My patron
remembers this from her youth, she is now in her mid-fifties. In this
episode, science and numbers are explained. She said it showed things
like while billiard balls move as they do. she also thought the title
was "Fun with numbers" but I can't find anything with this name.
She wouldn't have rented any disney videos so she would have had to
probably seen it on television prior to 1970.
Thank you very much
Mary Thornton
McCleary Timberland Library
mthornton@timberland.lib.wa.us
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From: DIANA MARTIN <dmartin@kcpl.lib.in.us>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: Santa and Jesus story
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:51:47 CST
Help!!! I ahve a teacher looking for a Christmas story that has a picture of
Santa kneeling at the manger looking at Jesus. That is all she cam remember.
Of cousre I have looked under Santa and Jesus, on the net and even in A to
Zoo
hoping something would jump out.
You can respond to dmartin@kcpl.lib.in.us
Thanks in advance.
Happy holidays to all.
Diana
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From: Janet Eckert <jcape52@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: How is youth librarianship changing?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:18:21 CST
Dear Fellow PUBYACers,
* What changes are you seeing in library service to
youth (children and
teens)?
* What do you see as the latest trends in library
service to youth?
I would greatly appreciate hearing your answers to the above two questions.
My questions are general and I invite you to comment on any aspect of
library service to children and teens (programs, services, facilities,
administration, staffing, censorship concerns, collections ... even children
and teens themselves).
I am researching this topic for a discussion program that I will be
conducting in January for school and public librarians. I am reading a
number of books/articles on this topic and would like to compare the
information that I cull from my reading to the answers that I receive from
librarians who work directly with youth.
By late January, I will share with this list my compilation of PUBYAC
responses along with a bibliography of recommended resources on the topics
of changes and trends in library service to youth.
Thank you for your assistance and happy holidays!
Sincerely,
Janet Eckert, Youth Services Consultant
Western Massachusetts Regional Library System
Hatfield, Massachusetts 01038
413-247-9306 ext. 127
jeckert@wmrls.org
http://www.wmrls.org
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From: Anne Fescharek <annfes@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Programming
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:35:10 CST
I need some info from New England area librarians. Do
you know of anyone who does a program that teaches
kids about finance?
Anne Fescharek (and Dewey)
Millbury Public Library
Millbury MA
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From: "Julia McLean" <ozimekju@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: a maze website!
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:35:18 CST
Hello to everybody!
I was looking, once again, for more mazes and I found a new, very COOL =
website! These are great for teens! I plan to copy a few here and there =
for the teens at my library and see how they go over. (other mazes go =
like hot cakes!) The person who made these mazes gives permission on her =
site to let anybody copy them, as long as you don't sell them and as =
long as the copyright is left in the picture.
http://www.mazoons.com/Mazes.htm
Julia McLean
Youth Services Aide
St.Paris Library
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From: Heather Ujhazy <heatherlynnu@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Winter Songs / Poetry
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:35:27 CST
Greetings!
I am planning a winter craft program in January for
school-age children. I am looking for songs available
on CD / cassette, poetry, and books to share with the
children. I am planning on making snow globes, an
open-ended snowmen craft and a magnetic felt mitten. I
have selected Jan Brett's The Mitten as one of the
books I will share.
Thank you for your suggestions in advanced. Please
email me directly and will compile the responses.
Happy Holidays!
Heather
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From: DIANA MARTIN <dmartin@kcpl.lib.in.us>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Santa and the Christ Child Stumper
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:45:43 CST
Thanks to all who took the time to look for a book showing
Santa kneeling beside the baby Jesus.
In alpha order (how else) Diana Norton and Ann Shumaker found
the title - Santa and the Christ Child on the net. Diana Norton
relayed that it is availabe from Amazon.
Lisa Bauer, Debra Bogart, Paula Lopatic and Julie Ann Rines
had good titles but when I called the patron she remember the
title as soon as she heard it.
Thanks again to all.
May you have the very best holiday season ever!
Diana Martin
KCLP Youth Dept
Vincennes, Indiana
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From: April Mazza <amazza@minlib.net>
To: PUBYAC Listserv <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Looking for an online source for children's music
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:14:42 CST
Hi all,
If you have a favorite source for finding & purchasing children's music
online could you please email me the URL. Much, much appreciated!
April Mazza
Wayland Public Library
Wayland, MA
amazza@minlib.net
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From: "Barbara Scott" <barbarascott@hotmail.com>
To: OPLINLIST@EPICURUS.OPLIN.LIB.OH.US,
PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Source for pre-made foam visors/large wiggle eyes...
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:14:50 CST
In preparation for a March "Froggy" program, I would like one of the
crafts
to be a "Froggy" visor, completed with large wiggle eyes. I've
been looking
thru some catalogs (Oriental, S&S, etc.) and am not coming up with what I
need.
Does anyone know of good source for the pre-made visors? If course, I'd
like to have just green ones. Also, a source for the large eyes would be
good also.
Email directly to barbarascott@hotmail.com
TIA and Merry Christmas and a blessed and Happy New Year!
Barb Scott, Children's Librarian
Bucyrus Public Library
Ohio Summer Reading Program Manual
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From: Erin Helmrich <helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE: TWIST mag for teens...
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:14:59 CST
Hello all,
I'm sorry for the "coy" message - initially I just didn't want to
influence the reaction of those who don't subscribe, but since most of the
messages out there are from those that don't - rather than the aprox. 115
libraries who do - here goes:
There is about a 1/2 page spread of aprox. 15 girls/women topless - from
neck to stomach - so no faces. This accompanies an article on breasts and
development and is within the context of what "normal" breasts look
like.
I personally appreciate the sentiment, but wonder about the implications
in public libraries - and mine in particular where more "creepy" older
men
who spend lots of time here (we are in a downtown locale) read the mags
than the teen girls.
Erin
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sophie Brookover wrote:
> For the benefit of those of us who do not have TWIST magazine in our
> libraries, would you be willing to share the subject matter of the article
> you're discussing? While you're at it, can one or more of you comment
on
> TWIST's overall quality? If it's good, I'd like to ask our serials
> librarian to subscribe to it for our young patrons. Thanks!
>
> Sophie
>
> ***********************
> Sophie Brookover
> Youth Services Librarian
> Mount Laurel Library
> 100 Walt Whitman Avenue
> Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
> tel: 856.234.7319 x.336
> e: sophie@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us
>
****************************
Erin V. Helmrich, M.L.S.
Youth/Teen Services Librarian
Royal Oak Public Library
222 East 11 Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, Michigan 48067
PHONE: 248.246.3734
FAX: 248.246.3705
EMAIL: helmrich@tln.org
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From: "Beth McFarland" <BMCFARLAND@cml.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil Look
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:15:07 CST
What really burns me is these people have no idea what Wicca is to start
with! H.P. is pure fiction and FUN!
Beth McFarland
Youth Services
Westland Area Library
Columbus Ohio
>>> granniep4@hotmail.com
12/19/02 08:58PM >>>
It's fiction for goodness sakes. It is just fun reading and totally
harmless. I have read this type of stuff all my life and I don't
practice
witchcraft, voodoo, or murder innocent children. It blows my mind how
people
can raise such a fuss over something like Harry Potter when we have so
many
real evils out there to harm our children.
Regina Slaughter-Children's Librarian, mother and grandmother.
>From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
>Reply-To: pubyac@prairienet.org
>Subject: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil Look
Innocent
>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:24:09 CST
>
>Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged Making Evil Look Innocent
>http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/0127.asp
>
>"Through the Harry Potter series, the ancient occult religion of
Wicca
>is
>being introduced in almost every public school in America. This video
>explains how Scholastic Inc., the largest publisher of children's
>books
>in the world, is supplying Harry Potter materials to millions of
>schoolchildren."
>
>
>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/
>Free People Read Freely« @ your library
>http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html
>
>"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
>we don't believe in it at all."--Noam Chomsky
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From: "Jerri Heid" <jheid@ci.clive.ia.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: bully and fitting in juvenile fiction
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:12:02 CST
A mother with a young boy (2nd grade) was just in and wanting information =
on how to deal with bullies and so called friends who make fun of others.
=
I was able to give her non-fiction titles but could not come up with any =
really good book/s that he could read himself with a character who dealt =
with a similar situation. Does anyone have any suggestions. The
mother =
says he reads well and has skipped a grade because of his academic =
abilities so I believe he could read above his grade level. =20
I will post a list. Thank you
Jerri Heid
Clive Public Library
1900 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325
515-453-2221
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From: Erika Burge <eburge@esls.lib.wi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: After school programs
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I'm a complete newbie (just finished library school in August) and have a
question for the crowd:
I'm planning to implement an after school program much like the ones
discussed recently -- I'm going to have after school sessions in which I
read Holes (prior to its big screen release) and have snacks. My library
has traditionally not done much in the way of programming for school age
kids because the local schools are pretty reading intensive, and I thought
this sounded like a nice way to ease into it. So my question is this, how
do you suggest advertising this program? We'll be putting some sort of ad
in the local paper and I'll advertise in the library (of course), but I'm
not sure what to call this program or how to explain, in very few words,
that the kids just have to come and listen. I want to make it sound fun
(of course), but I'm at a loss as to how to do it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks...
Erika
Erika Burge
Children's Librarian
Cedarburg Public Library
W63 N583 Hanover Avenue
Cedarburg, WI 53012
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From: Edward Goldberg <mg48tcgrn@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE: TWIST mag for teens...
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:12:19 CST
It appears that most libraries do not subscribe to
Twist. Am I right?
Ed Goldberg
--- Erin Helmrich <helmrich@tln.lib.mi.us>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm sorry for the "coy" message - initially I just
> didn't want to
> influence the reaction of those who don't subscribe,
> but since most of the
> messages out there are from those that don't -
> rather than the aprox. 115
> libraries who do - here goes:
>
> There is about a 1/2 page spread of aprox. 15
> girls/women topless - from
> neck to stomach - so no faces. This accompanies an
> article on breasts and
> development and is within the context of what
> "normal" breasts look like.
>
> I personally appreciate the sentiment, but wonder
> about the implications
> in public libraries - and mine in particular where
> more "creepy" older men
> who spend lots of time here (we are in a downtown
> locale) read the mags
> than the teen girls.
>
> Erin
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sophie Brookover wrote:
>
> > For the benefit of those of us who do not have
> TWIST magazine in our
> > libraries, would you be willing to share the
> subject matter of the article
> > you're discussing? While you're at it, can one or
> more of you comment on
> > TWIST's overall quality? If it's good, I'd like
> to ask our serials
> > librarian to subscribe to it for our young
> patrons. Thanks!
> >
> > Sophie
> >
> > ***********************
> > Sophie Brookover
> > Youth Services Librarian
> > Mount Laurel Library
> > 100 Walt Whitman Avenue
> > Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
> > tel: 856.234.7319 x.336
> > e: sophie@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us
> >
>
> ****************************
> Erin V. Helmrich, M.L.S.
> Youth/Teen Services Librarian
> Royal Oak Public Library
> 222 East 11 Mile Rd.
> Royal Oak, Michigan 48067
> PHONE: 248.246.3734
> FAX: 248.246.3705
> EMAIL: helmrich@tln.org
> *****************************
>
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