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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: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1084
PUBYAC Digest 1084
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Harry Potter - 667 holds here so far
by "Piowaty, Deanna" <DPiowaty@ci.west-linn.or.us>
2) Mystery Book Club
by "Anne Clasper" <aclas@nioga.org>
3) RE: baby time
by Hatfield Lori <riloco30013@yahoo.com>
4) Re: Harry Potter
by Carol Hoke <hoke@mail.crlibrary.org>
5) Video series question
by "Stacey Irish" <Stacey.Irish@cityofdenton.com>
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From: "Piowaty, Deanna" <DPiowaty@ci.west-linn.or.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Harry Potter - 667 holds here so far
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:58:31 CDT
We have 667 holds on it here in our neck of the woods (Clackamas County,
Oregon). We've ordered 98 among the 10 branches - 12 from our branch, and
I've just added an additional order for another 5 for YA. When to stop?
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From: "Anne Clasper" <aclas@nioga.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Mystery Book Club
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:58:39 CDT
Dear Pubyaccers,
I did not get too many responses to my request for "Mystery Book Club"
programs, but the few I got were a fantastic amount of help. I would like to
send a great big THANK YOU to Natasha Forrester, Karen Lucas, and Cathy
Henderson whose responses are compiled below. I am using all your ideas for
the Mysterious Book Club that I will run as part of our SRP
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I just finished a four week afterschool program I called "Mystery
Mondays"
(yes, they were on Mondays - how could you tell?). If you want more info
on
anything or masters of anything I have a master of, feel free to email me
and let me know - I'll be out of the office Thursday and Friday, but I'll be
here tomorrow and I'll be back next Monday afternoon. Some of the things
we
did include:
I made up a library hunt where the kids used the OPAC to find titles
(questions such as "you are planning a bank robbery in another country -
what book/resource will help you figure your escape route" - maps, atlas,
etc.; you overhear two spies speaking in French - what book/resource would
help you figure out what they are saying? - foreign language books, tapes,
etc.) (they got extra points for bringing the actual book)
We did a treasure hunt where I made up clues that would send them from one
resource to another, when they found a clue it would tell them where to go
next - my group was a mixture of ages from K-6th grades, so they worked in
teams and had clues such as (warning: I'm NOT a poet)
Encyclopedia Brown is a crime-solving dude.
His books will put you in a winning mood.
Where, oh, where could the next clue be?
Look in the 2003 encyclopedia under "B".
Computers, computers, we have quite a few,
Try looking on A's desktop for your next clue.
We talked about the elements that make up a mystery, some of the mystery
"vocabulary," and did a word search of some of those vocab words.
We worked on codes, like a simple A=1, B=2, etc. code. I made some
messages
that they worked on together to decipher, and then each team changed the
numerical value of letters, made up their own key and messages, and switched
papers with another group so they could decipher each other's messages.
There was also a "Secret in a Message" where I made spelling errors -
when
they corrected the errors the correct letters made up a "secret"
message.
We also talked about how and fingerprinting is used and used pencil lead and
tape to take our own fingerprints, looking at them under a magnifying glass
to see the curves and whorls (I found some info in one of our books on
fingerprints). For a craft I made up bookmarks that said "Get a Clue
@your
library" with the program name and lots of white space and we used ink
pads,
markers and ideas from Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book to
personalize the bookmarks with our own decorated fingerprints (then we added
a hole and a yarn loop).
I also had a big book display with books on crime solving, fingerprinting,
the FBI, CIA, police, etc., plus some of the kids' mystery books and series
they might not already be familiar with - for instance, I didn't include
Nancy Drew, the Hardy's, or Box Car Children, but did put in PC Hawke,
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Detectives, Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Jansen,
Bloodhounds, Inc., and some non-series mysteries like the Westing Game,
several of Chris VanAllsberg's books, and the Eleventh Hour (Graeme Base).
For younger kids I included the Piggins picture book mysteries by Jane
Yolen, the Aunt Eater easy reader mysteries, and picture books like Where's
My Teddy, The Mysterious Tadpole, and the I Spy books.
I opened each session by reading, either a "mystery" book (Jake
Gander,
Storybook Detective, Miss Nelson is Missing) or a mystery from a website
called MysteryNet http://kids.mysterynet.com/
and letting the kids discuss
it and solve it. If you were working with older kids than K-3rd, you could
probably use some of the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, too.
I gave them a webliography of some kid safe, librarian approved websites
about mysteries, like the FBI, DOJ, and CIA's websites for kids and a
Berenstain Bear's mystery coded message.
Last, but not least, I sealed about 10 individual items in paper lunch bags
and gave the kids a few seconds (approximately 10) to touch each wrapped
item and guess what it was - I used easier stuff like a video tape and a
stapler, and harder stuff like a hair dryer, a cassette tape, and a straw.
I also used a book and told the kids they would get extra points if they
could tell me the title - I got a big laugh ;)
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have used the book "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick," by Chris
Van
Allsburg as a mystery writing starter. Another librarian had cut
each of
the pages apart and mounted them on black paper and laminated them so that
kids could each take a mysterious picture and use it to story starter.
I have also used secret code books with kids, and they loved writing
messages in code. One of my favorite mystery chapter books is
"Who Stole
the Wizard of Oz?," by Avi. He gives many clues, and gives kids a
chance
to figure out the mystery without making the answer obvious.
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I did a Detective Club last summer for kids in 4-6th grades.
It was a four week session, the kids could sign up for all four or just one.
The first half of the program (which was an hour in length) was reading and
solving of a mystery. We usually broke into groups and the they had to have
a reason why they chose the answer.
The activities were: inks - disappearing and invisible, codes, fingerprints
and casting footprints.
I also got the FBI to come and visit and answer the kids questions.
Hope that helps.
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I'm sorry it took so long for me to post this compilation!
Anne.
Anne Clasper
Children's Librarian
Lockport Public Library
Lockport, N.Y. 14094
aclas@nioga.org
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From: Hatfield Lori <riloco30013@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE: baby time
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:58:46 CDT
Diane,
I do ring around the rosie with babies, and no one
holds hands. It works quite well. It doesn't matter
if everyone doesn't do it.
Lori Hatfield/Osceola County
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From: Carol Hoke <hoke@mail.crlibrary.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Harry Potter
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:58:55 CDT
We have one branch library in addition to the downtown main
library. Between YA and childrens we have 56 copies on order. We are
watching the reserve lists to see if we need more as we usually order one
copy for every 5 reserves. However, we are planning to have some of the
copies reserve exempt so that some people will get lucky when browsing and
get a copy. That way not all of them go to reserves right away.
We are hoping to have a program late on Friday night and have them
available for check out after midnight.
Carol Hoke
Programming Services Manager
Cedar Rapids Public Library
500 First St SE
Cedar Rapids IA 52401
319-398-5145, ext. 259
fax 319-398-0746
Hoke@mail.crlibrary.org
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From: "Stacey Irish" <Stacey.Irish@cityofdenton.com>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Video series question
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:59:03 CDT
Someone donated a series of videos to our library about dinosaurs.
Dinosaur! hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite, 1993 Arts and
Entertainment Network, HEARST/ABC/NBC. I am trying to decide if I
should add it to our collection or let it go. Any suggestions?
ideas?
Thanks,
Stacey Irish-Keffer
Denton Public Library
502 Oakland
Denton, Texas 76201
940.349.7738
slirish@cityofdenton.com
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