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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: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:01 PM Subject: PUBYAC digest 1179 PUBYAC Digest 1179 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Juv Online Database Recommendations by "deborah campbell" <deborah_campbell@hotmail.com> 2) Teen Stumper by Sherrie_Wilson@ci.longmont.co.us 3) book club help needed by melissa.carr@kanawha.lib.wv.us 4) stumper - Silent Night & mouse story by Charlette Jouan <cmjouan@yahoo.com> 5) Reminder - Teen Advisory Group Survey by "Tracey Firestone" <tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us> 6) Christmas Card craft compilation (long) by Susan Fisher <sfisher@lib.williamson-tn.org> 7) Stumper -- Friendship between young girl and old woman by "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "deborah campbell" <deborah_campbell@hotmail.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Juv Online Database Recommendations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; format=flowed Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:45:48 CDT Hi All, I'm starting to run out of space for reference books and would like some recommendations of online databases that are better than their print counterparts. In particular I'm interested in reference works that are used more by staff than by the public (like A to Zoo or a good poetry index, etc). Please respond to the email below and I'll compile a list if there's an interest. Thanks for all your help!! Deborah Campbell Youth Services Coordinator Loveland Public Library campbd@ci.loveland.co.us _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ From: Sherrie_Wilson@ci.longmont.co.us To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: Teen Stumper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: textbrlain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:45:56 CDT A patron is looking for a book published in the 70's, teen girls at a slumber party make prank calls saying, "I know what you did last summer", but it's not I Know What You Did Last Summer or The Pigman. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! ________________________ Sherrie Wilson Teen Services Coordinator Longmont Public Library Longmont, CO 80501 (303) 651-8891 ------------------------------ From: melissa.carr@kanawha.lib.wv.us To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: book club help needed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:46:05 CDT Hello. I was wondering if anyone has started a book club for children ages 8-12 and if so, how do you present the book talk. Do you also do activities such as crafts with the book talk? Has it been a success? Any and all information is greatly appreciated. thanks melissa ------------------------------ From: Charlette Jouan <cmjouan@yahoo.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: stumper - Silent Night & mouse story MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:46:14 CDT Hi Everyone, I hope you can help a patron of mine. She's looking for a book retelling the story of the song Silent Night. It's the same story told in Silent Night : a Mouse Tale by Betsy Hernandez, but it's not this book. Basically, it's Christmas time and a starving eats the leather of the bellows on the piano(?) and as a result the community can't play the Christmas songs. The song Silent Night is composed so that it can be sung without musical accompaniment. If you have any ideas, please respond to me off-list at cjouan@wcpl.lib.oh.us Thanks in advance for your help. Charlette Jouan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Tracey Firestone" <tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us> To: <tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us> Subject: Reminder - Teen Advisory Group Survey Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:46:22 CDT Dear Listserv Members: A week ago today we announced that YALSA is designing a web site for Teen Advisory Groups (TAGS); to meet the needs of those whose groups are already running and those who are thinking of forming such a group in the future. In order to tailor the web site to meet the widest range of needs, YALSA's TAGS Task Force seeks your input via an online survey. Please, if you have not already, take a few moments of your time to complete the short survey, available at http://www.leonline.com/yalsa/tagssurvey.html until Friday, August 15th. Once the results have been compiled and analyzed, you can look forward to an online resource that will assist you as you work with your teens. We've already had over 475 people add their voices, let yours be heard as well! Thanks in advance for your assistance, YALSA TAGS Task Force ******************************************** This message is from tfiresto@suffolk.lib.ny.us AKA: Tracey A. Firestone, MLS Young Adult Specialist YALSA's TAGS Task Force Chair Suffolk Cooperative Library System 627 North Sunrise Service Rd Bellport, NY 11713 Phone - 631-286-1600 x1352 FAX - 631-286-1647 Visit the YA Librarians' Homepage http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us ------------------------------ From: Susan Fisher <sfisher@lib.williamson-tn.org> To: PUBYAC <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Christmas Card craft compilation (long) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:46:31 CDT Thanks for all the great ideas for crafts to make with old Christmas cards. Here's the compilation of ideas: One of our favorite things to do with recycled Christmas cards is to make bookmarks from them. We use our Ellison die cutter to cut plain, rectangular bookmarks with a hole in one end for kids to add a ribbon. (You could cut them by hand easily, too.) All of us have fun figuring out which part of the picture on the card will make the prettiest bookmark and positioning the die accordingly! If you use cards that don't have anything hand written on the back of the picture, there is a place for whoever is making the bookmark to add a name or simple holiday message with stamps or markers. Have fun, Betsy Betsy Stroomer A very simple craft, but a craft none the less: As children, my mom would give us the fronts of old Christmas cards and a small cup. We traced the cup on the card with a pencil, then cut it out. With a hole punch and some yarn, these circles became name tags for the next year. They are big enough for smaller children to write on them. Good luck on your Christmas card crafts! Charity Leonette For younger children I use a hole punch and punch holes around the card. Then they can "stitch" around the edge with yarn and a plastic darning needle. Older kids I cut circles about 3 1/2" in diameter, and fold the edges in (towards the outside - good side) to form a triangle in the center (does that make sense?) Then they are glued edge to edge to make a geodesic dome. I don't recall how many cards it takes. For in-between ages, we just cut circles, fold them in half top to bottom and glue several together with a string in the middle to make a ball with "fins". This can be adjusted in simplicity by how many circles are used. Carolyn Town Hall Library We've cut stocking shapes, punched holes on the edges and did a lace a lace-up craft with red or green yarn. After they're done, you can give each child a tiny candy cane to put in their stocking. They can also be used as ornaments. Celeste Fong Librarian Ontario City Library Colony High Branch 3850 E. Riverside Drive Ontario, CA 91761-2603 Make ornaments. Cut #? circles (same size) from fronts. Gule edges to form kind of globe. It is on internet and crafts books. Have to think and no time, but cool craft. If interested, let me know and I'll find more. I plan to do it this year. Christine Gogolowski Y/YA Services Librarian Trenton Veterans Memorial Library Trenton, Michigan 48183 We made Chinese lanterns out of old Christmas cards. Here's how. Fold a card in half lengthwise and cut from the fold to a 1/2 inch from the edge of the card. Cuts should be spaced maybe 1/2 inch apart. Then open it up and tape together lengthwise. Place crumpled yellow tissue paper in lantern for flame. Add string to hang. Merry Christmas! Heather Heather McCutchen Children's Librarian Forsyth County Public Library 660 West Fifth St Winston-Salem, NC 2710 I just made a simple craft by cutting out animals and shapes with a die-cut machine and let the kids make a collage on construction paper with a string hanger. I was worried they might not recognize the animals, but have no fear, and if they don't you can turn them over. Also, you don't have to discard the religious cards. There are a number of cheap, easy greeting card crafts in Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts: Kids Can Press 2001 by Judy Ann Sadler. Julie Kant Children's Librarian I have done this simple craft with all ages. Save plastic lids from margarine tubs. Trace around the lid on the card and cut out the shape. Glue it inside the lid. Trim with lace or glue glitter around the inner edge. Punch a hole in the top of the lid and tie a ribbon through the hole for a hanger. Lynda M. Gamble Youth Services Librarian Thank you! My compatriots here tell me frequently that they are tired of me planning so far ahead of them and making them look bad. Now I can tell them someone is ahead of me, so they can stop complaining. We once made tree ornaments from cards and t-paper tubes. Cut a two inch piece of tube. Cut the top inch into five points,evenly spaced, like the points on a crown. Fold the points out to the side. You now have a round frame with five star points. Paint it and glue it onto a card with some part of the picture showing through the frame, eg. a teddy's face, a stocking, etc. When the glue sets, cut away the excess card. Add a hanger for a tree ornament or a sticky magnet so it can go the fridge. You can also make ornaments from circles cut from cards. Cut ten circles of the same diameter. Run a loop of yarn/string/ribbon through the center of one circle using a needle, set aside. Fold the other nine circles in half taco shell fashion and cut from the center of the crease toward the outer edge, but NOT all the way through. Slide the folded circles, evenly spaced, onto the flat circle and spread open, like when you open a book to make it stand. The ornament is ready to hang by the loop you attached before. Note: This craft requires NO GLUE!, and, hence, is very popular around here, except that we do it with orange circles in the fall to make pumpkins. Hint: The cutter from a button making machine makes nice uniform circles. If the circles are precut, the children need only select their circles and assemble. Another idea: Add a jingle bell to the hanging loop and the finished ornament will jingle. Those are all the ideas that leapt to mind. It's too hot and muggy here to do much Christmas thinking. Peg Siebert Blodgett Library Fishkill, NY You can punch holes in the sides and tie them together with yard or use tape and create houses and villages with roofs, chimneys, doors, and windows. Peggy Odom If you have access to an Ellison Machine they have some nice dies to cut shapes out of the cards. I've cut little frames from card stock or fun foam. Let the kids decorate the frames and cut pictures out of the cards to use as the framed photo. Cards also make nice bookmarks, tho this doesn't entail much creativity on the part of the child beyond maybe adding a ribbon. One of the local scout troops made books out of the cards & donated them to daycare centers & the hospital. I'm anxious to see others' ideas on this topic as I have LOTS of Christmas cards that people have donated. Sally We use old Christmas cards to make boxes. We stitch them together with thread (red and green is nice) on all four sides except for the top which we leave open on 3 sides. Sheilah O'Connor I saw this craft in a book here, I think, or perhaps a magazine. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it was so pretty. They used those clear glass "stones" people buy for fishtanks or vases, and then traced around them on cards to cut out specific things. Then just glued that piece of card to the glass stone, along with a piece of ribbon to hang it. I think I would let the kids pick out the pictures and stones, trace and glue. Then I would attach the ribbon with a hot glue gun to be sure it held. I found the larger clear glass stones at a local Dollar Tree, and there were about 20 in a bag for $1, so it's not expensive. I'm not sure about what glue to use, although I'd probably use the quick-drying tacky glue for this. Susanna Holstein Elk Valley Branch Library Charleston, Wv I have one but am afraid it might be difficult for little ones. Are their parents available to help? You can make little shoe ornaments with cards, ribbon and a single-hole punch. I will try to send to the directions and pattern this week but can't guarantee as it is the last week of summer reading club and both my assistants are off this week. Yes, I know, that's crazy but one is on extended medical leave and the other her 25th wedding anniversary. I'll get my revenge next month. Renee Tobin I have an idea for using old christmas card to make tree decorations. Just have the kids cut out a picture from the old Christmas card and then glue a clothespin on the back which can then be used to attach the item to their Christmas tree. -- Susan Fisher Bethesda Public Library 4905 Bethesda Road Thompson Station, TN 37179 615.790.1887 fax: 615.790.8426 sfisher@lib.williamson-tn.org ------------------------------ From: "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper -- Friendship between young girl and old woman content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:46:44 CDT Help! I've been racking my brains trying to think of this title/author: The book is about an African-American single mom and her daughter who = move to rural South Carolina (?). Mom is at work most of the time, so = the daughter befriends the old woman who lives at the end of the road. = The old woman has a lot of cats. There is a scene in which the girl is = visiting during a frightening storm. There is also a scene where all = three go to a barbecuebrarty at the local juke joint. It is later = discovered that the old woman's grandson, who had gone to Vietnam and = was thought lost, is the girl's father and they are reunited toward the = end of the story. This is a chapter book, published only a year or so ago. If you have any ideas, PLEASE email me at katrinaen@earthlink.net (this = is a correct address -- I flaked last time!). TIA, Katrina Katrina Neville Children's Librarian City of Moreno Valley =20 ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1179 ************************* |
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