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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: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1136
PUBYAC Digest 1136
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: Library mascot?
by Mary <mrc42@yahoo.com>
2) secret room?
by "Bloedau, Linda" <LBloedau@cortn.org>
3) Claremont County, ALA
by "MaryAnn Gilpatrick" <magilpat@velocitus.net>
4) Re: Puppet shows!
by Pat Stone <pstone@roc.rodman.lib.oh.us>
5) Seeking virtual tours of YA areas
by storyweaver@newportlibrary.org
6) Re: Baby food jars
by Cora Willis-King <onceuponastory_mbcpl@yahoo.com>
7) Welcome package?
by Brenda Fay <Brenda.Fay@mcfls.org>
8) babyfood jars
by Mary Ryan <mryan@noblenet.org>
9) Stumper solved - doll lost in grocery store
by "Terrie Dorio" <terrie-dorio@ci.santa-monica.ca.us>
10) fund raising ideas
by Susan Dunn <sdunn@jefferson.lib.co.us>
11) 2003 Banned Books Week Button
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
12) Re: Library mascot?
by "Glenice Molter" <slo_glenice@stls.org>
13) needed book drive theme
by "Sue Kilmer" <skilmer@yukon.lib.ok.us>
14) Re: BABY FOOD JARS
by Domingos <ddomingo@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
15) paint color and behavior
by Ann-Marie Biden <AMBiden@ci.upland.ca.us>
16) Re: BABY FOOD JARS
by Margaret Siebert <psiebert12508@yahoo.com>
17) Re: Library mascot?
by N Korsavidis <nkorsavidis@yahoo.com>
18) Hi, I am new to the list
by "Leah Hunt" <leahhunt@msn.com>
19) Re: Library mascot?
by Jones Taylor Edwards <ya_core@yahoo.com>
20) Body Painting
by Tamara Butler <publiclibrarian@yahoo.com>
21) Re: BABY FOOD JARS
by Bonnie Warren <bonnielw@lincc.lib.or.us>
22) BBW 2003 Order Form Now Online
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
23) Compilation of Books to Promote Talking to a 1 and a Half Year Old
by "Olivia Spicer" <ospicer@loudoun.gov>
24) Re: Collection development resources
by karen maletz <kmlib@yahoo.com>
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From: Mary <mrc42@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Library mascot?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:34:34 CDT
We have a chipmunk named Dewey D. Chipmunk. He attends parades and
children's department events and sometimes goes to shut-ins. He's cool - he
even does the hokey pokey!
Mary Rogers
Delaware County District Library
Delaware OH
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From: "Bloedau, Linda" <LBloedau@cortn.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: secret room?
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good afternoon, collective mind.....
a patron fondly recalls a book from the late sixties- early seventies -----
a novel about a girl with a secret PINK room.....
ring any bells for anyone?
thanks
Linda B. in HUMID east Tennessee
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From: "MaryAnn Gilpatrick" <magilpat@velocitus.net>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Claremont County, ALA
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:34:52 CDT
I would like to touch base with any children's people working in =
Calremont county, Ohio, if you are coming to Toronto. I'll be staying at =
the Fairmont, which should be fairly central, since it is conference HQ.
TIA,
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
magilpat@velocitus.net
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From: Pat Stone <pstone@roc.rodman.lib.oh.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Puppet shows!
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:00 CDT
Lillian,
We have successfully used animal puppets with The Three Billy Goats
Gruff,
Book, Book, Book, by Deborah Bruss, and I Took My Frog to the Library, by
Eric
Kimmel. If we didn't have the puppet called for in the story, we
substituted
another. Good Luck!
Pat Stone
Rodman Public Library
Alliance, OH
pstone@roc.rodman.lib.oh.us
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From: storyweaver@newportlibrary.org
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Seeking virtual tours of YA areas
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:08 CDT
If any of your libraries have an online virtual tour of their young
adult area/department, I would appreciate the link. Please send it
to me off list, storyweaver@newportlibrary.org
I need to give our Young Adult Advisory committee some fresh ideas
before they start spending a grant to improve our existing area.
TIA,
Rebecca Cohen
Newport Public Library
Newport, Oregon
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From: Cora Willis-King <onceuponastory_mbcpl@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Baby food jars
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:17 CDT
Mary,
Here is a direct link to a website that I have found useful turning trash to
"treasure" with recyclables.
http://familycrafts.about.com/library/trcrafts/bljarbabyfdtrt.htm
There are many ideas listed for creative ways to use the jars you have on
hand. I have had the most luck in the past with making snow globes or oceans
in a jar (Hint*, when making this project I recommend hot gluing the lids on
so they can not be removed). Another idea is to layer colored sand or adding
a wick and layering assorted colors of wax candle crystals into the jars. If
making candles, keep the lids for making a magnet craft.
Good luck,
Cora Willis-King
Middlesborough-Bell Co. Public Library
Middlesboro, KY
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From: Brenda Fay <Brenda.Fay@mcfls.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Welcome package?
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:26 CDT
Hi all,
I was wondering if any of your libraries do something special for kids
who have just gotten their first library card? Or, for that matter, any
kind of "new" patron?
Here we offer kids the option of being the first one to check out a
book. We put their name on a bookplate and stick it inside with the idea
that this is the first book they check out with their new library card
(and we put a note on their record in case they want the same book five
years later). Let me also say that our patrons are not eligible to for
their own card until they can write their first and last names, so we
usually get them around 4-5 years old.
I would love to know what other libraries do for our new and/or young
patrons!
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Brenda Fay
Children's Librarian
North Shore Library
Glendale, WI 53217
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
"If you drink too much from a bottle marked 'poison', it is almost
certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."
~<underline>Alice's
adventures in Wonderland
</underline>
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From: Mary Ryan <mryan@noblenet.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: babyfood jars
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:34 CDT
Thanks to everyone who took the time to send in ideas for crafts using baby
food jars....Peg Siebert, Celeste Fong, Janet Ng, Tina Cavanaugh, Chris
Gibrich, Barb Scott, Robbie Flowers, Melissa McCleod, Renee Hale, Suzanne
Kirk, Cassie Veselovsky, Gladys Seaman, Tim Capehart, Anie Schafer, Beth
Coughlin and Erin Helmrich. Here's a compilation of the ideas:
1. A lot of people suggested colored sand paintings. Two variations
are: Put salt in dishes and rub sidewalk chalk around in the sand.
It
takes off the color, and you can use the salt as "Sand". Also,
use the
jars as shakers to shake colored sand on glue in patterns on the paper.
2. Decorate them to make candle holders.
3. Make salt and pepper shakers for gifts
4. Make candy jars for gifts.
5. Decorate and fill with Potpourri
6.Make into animals by adding ears, eyes, noses, tails
7.Put clay in lid, and stick in artificial flowers, then put the glass part
back on to have flowers under glass.
8. Use them to make butter out of cream by shaking
The use we had been thinking of, snow globes, was considered unpractical by
many because the tops had to be hot-glued on to keep them from
leaking. thanks very much! Mary
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From: "Terrie Dorio" <terrie-dorio@ci.santa-monica.ca.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper solved - doll lost in grocery store
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:43 CDT
Thanks to Laura Matheny, Jen Marin, Cathy Burnsed, Susan Swan, Marie =
McDermed and Margaret Rutherford the stumper about the doll lost in a =
grocery store was solved. It is The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll by =
Edward and Aingelda Ardizzone. Thanks!
Original request:
"Hi, everyone - I have a stumper from a young woman in her 20s who grew up
=
in Canada, so I'm hoping this sounds familiar to someone.
It's a picture book, illustrated in black and white. A doll is lost in a =
grocery store. She plays tennis with peas as her balls, and a little girl
=
brings her sweaters to keep her warm. At the end of the book the doll =
goes home with the little girl."
Terrie Dorio
Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica, CA
terrie-dorio@santa-monica.org
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From: Susan Dunn <sdunn@jefferson.lib.co.us>
To: "PUBYAC (E-mail)" <pubyac@prairienet.org>,
"YALSA-BK (E-mail)"
Subject: fund raising ideas
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:52 CDT
Does your library do anything especially fun and creative in terms of fund
raising? Our big seller has for the past few years has been book bags with
the library logo. We sell them at the Circ desk for $8 each. At this
point
we're almost out of bags, and before we do another big reorder we're trying
to decide if we just want to change the logo and/or color, or go with
something else altogether, such as mugs, t-shirts or mouse pads.
Do you sell anything creative or unusual at your library? If so, we'd love
to hear about it. We do do a large booksale every year - but this is
something on a smaller scale that can be available at each branch.
TIA!
Susan Dunn
Children's Information Librarian
Columbine Library
Jefferson County Public Library
7706 W. Bowles Ave.
Littleton, CO 80123
dept: 303-932-2690 x3
fax: 303-932-3041
sdunn@jefferson.lib.co.us
Find us on the Web: http://jefferson.lib.co.us
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: 2003 Banned Books Week Button
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The 2003 Banned Books Week Button is online at:
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/#2003BBWbutton
>From this link, scroll up a half page.
Libraries, schools, and individuals that would like to celebrate the
freedom to read may freely save this 2003 Banned Books Week image for
their Web sites; please use the link http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
and the
ALT message [2003 BBW logo Open Your Mind to a Banned Book; Link to the
ALA's Banned Books Week page; http://www.ala.org/bbooks/].
Thank you.
For additional information, contact Jen Hammond at jhammond@ala.org
or
1-800-545-2433, ext. 4224.
Banned Books Week 2003 is September 20-27. The order form is now
online at
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectu
al_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/BBW_Kit/OrderForm.pdf
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From: "Glenice Molter" <slo_glenice@stls.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Library mascot?
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:36:09 CDT
Our library has a mascot that we had built especially for us...e-mail me=
directly at slo_glenice@stls.org
and I will send you the details.
Glenice Molter
Southside Branch Library
378 S. Main St.
Elmira, New York 14904
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 6/11/03 at 1:59 PM Osei Baffour wrote:
>Hello:
>
>Has any library tried using a mascot to represent their library during
>community events? If so what creature or thing did you use to represent=
the
>library? If you have never done this but think it is a creative idea
to
>try
>what would you use?
>
>Please advise.
>
>Osei
>
>
>Osei Akoto Baffour, Manager
>Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch Library
>2922 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Building C
>Dallas, Texas 75215
>Telephone: (214) 671-0624
>
>
>"What's worth doing is worth doing well".
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From: "Sue Kilmer" <skilmer@yukon.lib.ok.us>
To: "pubyac listings" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: needed book drive theme
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:36:16 CDT
Our library has "outgrown" it's annual book budget. When I
was expressing my concern and need for additional City
funding, one of the councilpersons suggested what he thought was an
original idea -- create a list of needed new materials and have the
public either donate the book or the money. I told him I would gladly
create the list and promote the effort. However, I need a
"catchy"
theme. Somehow I can't think of anything clever. I've never known
this
group to ever let any question go unanswered. HELP!!!! Thanks
skilmer@yukon.lib.ok.us
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From: Domingos <ddomingo@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: BABY FOOD JARS
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:36:27 CDT
Mary
We are using the jars to make simple humming bird feeders. To do so punch
a whole in the top with a nail. Paint an orange flower on the top.
Fill
with the boiled sugar syrup suggested for feeders( sorry I'm at home and
don't have the recipe here...bnt I'm sure you can find it easily enough)
finally loop a wire around the jar between the lid and jar and hang in a
tree. Just one idea...good Luck
Deb Domingos
HEad of Children's Services
Brookhaven Free Library
Brookhaven, New York
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Mary Ryan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a simple craft to do with baby food jars. We have
bags
> of them and would like to use them this summer in our craft program.
It
> needs to be easy so that all ages can do it.
>
> You can e-mail me directly at mryan@noblenet.org
>
> Thanks.
> Mary Ryan
>
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From: Ann-Marie Biden <AMBiden@ci.upland.ca.us>
To: "Pubyac (E-mail)" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: paint color and behavior
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We are planning to repaint our Children's section and are just curious if
anyone has noticed any behavior changes, good or not so good, with different
colors of paint. I know green is supposed to be calming, but we're
thinking
of a soft yellow that would complement the murals on parts of our walls.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Ann-Marie Biden
Children's Librarian
Upland Public Library
Upland, California
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From: Margaret Siebert <psiebert12508@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: BABY FOOD JARS
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:36:45 CDT
We've made snowglobes here, too. We used clear cornsyrup and water instead
of glycerin. It's cheaper and thicker. If you make the solution half syrup
and half water the glitter settles slowly. The greater the percentage of
syrup you use, the more slowly the glitter settles. The kids enjoy this
because "the show" lasts longer.
You can also use ing clay (NOT play dough) to fix
your figures in place
inside the lid.
Peg Siebert
Blodgett Library
Fishkill, NY
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From: N Korsavidis <nkorsavidis@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Library mascot?
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:36:52 CDT
We don't necessarily have a mascot per se, but we do
have a library dragon. We bought him off a bookseller
and we held a contest for the children to name him.
(Hufflepuff was the winning name) He is now being used
as decoration for the Summer Reading Club.
Natalie
=====
Natalie Korsavidis
Youth Services Librarian
Farmingdale Public Library
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From: "Leah Hunt" <leahhunt@msn.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Hi, I am new to the list
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:03 CDT
Hi,
I am a grad. student, and I just joined the list for one of my assignments.
I was wondering if much discussion goes on in this forum. I am interested
in becoming a School Media Specialist.
Thanks,
Leah from SC
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From: Jones Taylor Edwards <ya_core@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Library mascot?
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:11 CDT
Webber was the mascot at the Houston Public Library.
he was used at community events, programs, and press
events.
I know as well that I've seen mascots at libraries in:
Ohio (Westerville: talk to Jessica Mize) and
Washington (Timberland Regional and Bellingham). I
recall that when I was doing research for my library
card book that I read about mascot in North Carolina
(Durham County), and Phoenix Public Library
--- Osei Baffour <obaffour@dallaslibrary.org>
wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Has any library tried using a mascot to represent
> their library during
> community events? If so what creature or thing did
> you use to represent the
> library? If you have never done this but think it
> is a creative idea to try
> what would you use?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Osei
>
>
> Osei Akoto Baffour, Manager
> Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch Library
> 2922 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Building C
> Dallas, Texas 75215
> Telephone: (214) 671-0624
>
>
> "What's worth doing is worth doing well".
>
=====
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From: Tamara Butler <publiclibrarian@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Body Painting
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:19 CDT
Is anyone planning on doing a Teen program on Body Art Expression as listed
in the New York State summer reading program manual? Or has anyone done a
program like this where teens would design their own tattoo and have them
painted on by either themselves or another teen? I am intrigued because I
think this would be a high interest program. But I wondered about the
logistics of doing it.
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From: Bonnie Warren <bonnielw@lincc.lib.or.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: BABY FOOD JARS
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:28 CDT
One year for summer reading, we mixed salt with dry tempera paint to make
different colors. Then the kids spooned the salt into the baby food jars
in
layers to make a sort of landscape picture. They were quite pretty.
We
sealed
the tops of the baby food jars with Elmer's glue.
Bonnie Warren
Clackamas County Library
Oak Grove, OR 97267
Mary Ryan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a simple craft to do with baby food jars. We have
bags
> of them and would like to use them this summer in our craft program.
It
> needs to be easy so that all ages can do it.
>
> You can e-mail me directly at mryan@noblenet.org
>
> Thanks.
> Mary Ryan
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: BBW 2003 Order Form Now Online
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:37 CDT
Banned Books Week 2003 is September 20-27. The order form is now online
at
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectu
al_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/BBW_Kit/OrderForm.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/e23v
For more information, contact Jen Hammond at 1-800-545-2433, ext.
4220.
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From: "Olivia Spicer" <ospicer@loudoun.gov>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Compilation of Books to Promote Talking to a 1 and a Half Year Old
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:46 CDT
Thank you, first of all, to Cindy Schilling, Beverly Bixler, Anie
Schafer, Celeste Fong, Jane Ferguson, and Cresencia Huff for helping me
with ideas to share with my patron who is looking for books to help
promote talking to her one and a half year old. Here is what they came
up with (condensed).
This isn't a book about late talking, but LEO THE LATE BLOOMER by Robert
Kraus may help reassure the child and the parent. MAX'S FIRST WORDS by
Rosemary Wells may also help.
You might suggest LEO THE LATE BLOOMER by Robert Kraus, Windmill Books,
1971.
Here is an article which might be helpful for the parent who wants to
encourage their child to talk:
http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/infant/development/71.html
You might also find some parenting books which emphasize/suggest that
the best thing to do to encourage talking is...talking! I don't think
there would be a list of books to read, just read everything! But just
so you have some titles, here are a few: Dr. Seuss; HOP ON POP, MR.
BROWN CAN MOO, CAT IN THE HAT
BILL PEET; any. They are long and therefore sound different when read
out loud.
ERIC CARLE; any. Repetition of phrases and enunciation are well done
with these books.
How about MORE MORE MORE SAID THE BABY by Vera B. Williams
Has she tried using board books with animal pictures? Showing him the
animals and teaching him the sounds they make sometimes encourages wee
ones to talk.
The Public Library Association has a website with lots of information
about reading to infants and toddlers and encouraging language
development.
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PLA/Projects/PLA_and_ALSCs_Prescho
ol_Literacy_Initiative/PLA_and_ALSCs_Preschool_Literacy_
Also, even at 18 months most children only have between 5 and 20 words.
Here is a link for the best language development chart I have ever found
http://www.cdipage.com/language_development.shtml
If your patron is still concerned about her child's language
development, you might encourage her to talk to her pediatrician in case
there is need for intervention.
Thanks again to all who sent me ideas! I have sent them to my patron,
and I'm sure she'll be happy.
Olivia
Olivia I. Spicer
Youth Services Librarian
Loudoun County Public Library
Rust Library
380 Old Waterford Rd.
Leesburg, VA 20176
Tel: 703-771-5624
ospicer@loudoun.gov
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From: karen maletz <kmlib@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Collection development resources
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:37:55 CDT
We use several journals: SLJ, Kirkus, Booklist. Most
of the time, this works out ok. But sometimes we get
stuck with "clunkers" that we can't believe someone
wrote a positive review of. In addition, there is a
preview room at the Nassau Library System that has
preview copies of some books they receive that we can
look at.
--- Suellen Jacobs <jacobssu@oplin.lib.oh.us>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Azelmo@cs.com>
> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:19 AM
> Subject: Collection development resources
>
>
> > I would like to know what are the main resources
> people are using for
> > collection development for children and/or adult
> collections?
> > Thank you.
> > Anita
> >
> > I use the reviews in School Library Journal and
> our regional library
> system has a 'book look' at least 3 times a year
> where we get to actually
> see all the latest books that have been published.
> This works especially
> well because sometimes once you see the actual book
> you realize that no
> matter how wonderful it is, no one at your library
> would check it out. I
> also make lists the whole time I am weeding as to
> what areas need to be
> enriched or replacement copies purchased. I also
> listen to my patrons and
> one of my co-workers works at the school libraries,
> so she fills me in on
> what the kids love. I go over the yearly 'top lists'
> in children's
> literature to make sure I haven't missed something.
> This applies only to
> childrens and YA books; I don't purchase adult
> books.
> Suellen Jacobs
> Youth Services Librarian
> Willard Memorial Library
>
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