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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, September 11, 2003 11:01 PM Subject: PUBYAC digest 1212 PUBYAC Digest 1212 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Book Discussion Group - Name? by Diane Rebertus <dr00072002@yahoo.com> 2) Re: Hawafena/Singing ad by spardi@nplhub.org (Sarah Pardi) 3) Review of "A Prayer for the Dying" for high school students by Amy and Michael Dittman <amy0731@pgh.net> 4) American Library Association Privacy Policies and Statements by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> 5) advance copies by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org> 6) stumper by Nancy Bonne <bonne@noblenet.org> 7) Stumper:Stray cat catches mouse-given home by Sandra Gillard <sgill@nioga.org> 8) Cataloging of Graphic Novels -- Thanks!! by "Vicki Muzzy" <vmuzzy@starklibrary.org> 9) RE: Patriot's Day storytime (preschool) by "Mary Ann Gilpatrick" <MGilpatrick@ci.walla-walla.wa.us> 10) Re: Managing Student Assistants by Beth Bell <bethbell52@yahoo.com> 11) RE: Hawafena/Singing ad by "Beverly Bixler" <bbixler@sanantonio.gov> 12) RE: Hats Off to Reading by "Adelaide Rowe" <Adelaide.Rowe@egvpl.org> 13) Re: Galleys/Advance Copies -- answers by "Melissa MacLeod" <mmacleod@sailsinc.org> 14) Re: Hats Off to Reading by ann chapman <amom124@yahoo.com> 15) RE: Hawafena/Singing ad by Christine Gogolowski <chrisg@tln.lib.mi.us> 16) Out-of-scope request by MzLibrary@aol.com 17) Parents by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org> 18) Re: CIPA Compliance by nkoebel@birchard.lib.oh.us 19) Re: reorganizing 398s by "Kelly Laszczak" <zcz23@msn.com> 20) Re: Garden programs by ann chapman <amom124@yahoo.com> 21) RE: Stumper - Peppino by Carol Hopkins <CarolH@ci.puyallup.wa.us> 22) RE: Hawafena/Singing ad by "Ellen Little" <elittle@pts.edu> 23) Subject: Cataloging of Graphic Novels by Jennie Stoltz <jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us> ---------------------------------------- I'm looking for a catchy name for a book discussion group - children inFrom: Diane Rebertus [SMTP:dr00072002@yahoo.com] grades 3-5. Thanks. ---------------------------------------- I have heard of ads that talk for comedy central sitting atop men's urina=From: spardi@nplhub.org [SMTP:spardi@nplhub.org] ls! Talk about in your face advertising!=0D =0D =0D =0D Sarah Pardi=0D Children's Librarian =0D Belleville Public Library =0D Belleville, NJ, 07109=0D =0D "You wasted $ 150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library" Good Will Hunting=0D ---------------------------------------- Hi, everyone!From: Amy and Michael Dittman [SMTP:amy0731@pgh.net] I have been asked to find a review of the book A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by STEWART O'NAN for high school students. Does anyone know of one off the top of your head? I have limited access right now to resources, but any information you could offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Amy M. Dittman Temporarily Unemployed in Franklin, PA 16323 ---------------------------------------- American Library Association Privacy Policies and StatementsFrom: Don Wood [SMTP:dwood@ala.org] Prepared by Nancy Kranich Chair, ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee http://tinyurl.com/n0to 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/oif ---------------------------------------- Robyn Hammer-Clarey writes: here may be grammatical or spelling errors inFrom: Bonita Kale [SMTP:Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org] proofs (advanced copies). Joke, right? Impression I get is that no one bothers to read and correct the things--they come out so full of errors. Bonita ---------------------------------------- This is for my sister: An American woman married a German man in the 30's,From: Nancy Bonne [SMTP:bonne@noblenet.org] and they had twin sons. When the war came, the woman went back to America with one son, while the German kept the other, and joined the Luftwaffe. The twins shared a beloved teddy bear, and years after a man and woman are rescued after they crash in the North Sea. The rescuer recognizes a teddy bear that the woman bought in a a flea market in France, and tells them the story. Anyone know this story? Nancy Bonne...bonne@noblenet.org ---------------------------------------- Fellow Pubyac Members,From: Sandra Gillard [SMTP:sgill@nioga.org] This stumper came in that I would like Pubyac's help with. It may be a picture book or slightly longer that was probably published in the 1980s or before. A stray orange cat is found by an orphan at a boarding house. The cat is not allowed in the house, but it catches a mouse and is then welcome to stay. I was asked to post this by a fellow librarian. She checked our database and A to Zoo without any luck. Thanks for your help. Sandy Gillard sgill@nioga.org Richmond Library, Batavia, NY ---------------------------------------- Hello everyone!From: Vicki Muzzy [SMTP:vmuzzy@starklibrary.org] Many thanks to all of you who responded to my request for thoughts on cataloging graphic novels. I received so many responses, most saying that their graphic novels are classified as fiction, and others saying that they kept their's in separate sections or had special spine labels for those housed in the 700's. Your responses were awesome! Thanks again! Vicki Muzzy Juvenile Materials Coordinator Stark County District Library 715 Market Ave N Canton, OH 44702 330-458-2643 vmuzzy@starklibrary.org ---------------------------------------- Of course I've already addesFrom: Mary Ann Gilpatrick [SMTP:MGilpatrick@ci.walla-walla.wa.us] Levinson, I go with my family to Grandma's Bunting, Picnic in October. (If I can get through it without tears.) Mary Ann Gilpatrick Walla Walla Public Library mgilpatrick@ci.walla-walla.wa.us Thanks especially to Jennifer S., Amy W., and Richard Bryce for some wonderful suggestions. My compiled list for this Thursday's storytime includes: Brooklyn Pops Up Drummond, Allan; Liberty Lobel; On the Day Peter ... (follow by singing "East Side, West Side") Munro; Inside-Outside Book of NYC (j917.471 here) Myers & Myers; Harlem (j811.5 here) Swift; Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge (GW bridge, in fact) have on display: Eloise, Fireboat, Journey Around New York from A to Z (I don't have); Curious George in the Big City (I don't have); You Can't Take A Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum (which I love but it wouldn't read well; anything else you have covering NYC. A Patriotic Theme or American Legends theme. Display 9-11 books judiciously. My kids are far away from New York and haven't experienced the events firsthand, but will be curious about the flags at half mast, etc. on Thursday. ---------------------------------------- Julie,From: Beth Bell [SMTP:bethbell52@yahoo.com] We give new pages paper strips to place in the items before shelving. These are color coded, such as Sue gets red and Bill gets blue. We then check the shelving and pull the strips. We do this for a week or so, as needed. We also do spot checks by writing down the bar codes for a few items and then checking if they get put in the correct place. We use this if we are having a problem with other branch books being shelved on our shelves or a problem area. Hope this helps. Beth Bell St. Andrews Public Library Charleston, SC --- Julie McCoy <jmdmccoy@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am requesting input on the ways you verify that > your student assistants > (shelvers) are doing their jobs properly, especially > new students who have > just been trained. Also, how often do you spot > check the job your shelvers > are doing? > > Thanks for the input! > > Julie McCoy > Reference Librarian - Teen Services > Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County > Delhi Township Branch Library > jmdmccoy@hotmail.com ---------------------------------------- For some reason this posting put me in mind of the howlers that Hogwarts =From: Beverly Bixler [SMTP:bbixler@sanantonio.gov] students occasionally received. Beverly Bixler bbixler@sanantonio.gov San Antonio Public Library, TX=20 ---------------------------------------- Well, you could make a display using various professions' hats and putFrom: Adelaide Rowe [SMTP:Adelaide.Rowe@egvpl.org] them with the books - fireman, policeman, hard hat, pilot, etc, or place them on top of the shelves where you can find those books. Not very original maybe, but an idea while eating a delicious Panera peanut butter and banana bagel. Adelaide Rowe Head of Youth Services Elk Grove Village Public Library Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60007 arowe@egvpl.org ---------------------------------------- Instead of discouraging her you could donate them to a children's hospitalFrom: Melissa MacLeod [SMTP:mmacleod@sailsinc.org] instead, then you would know they are being used. Wehn my son had to spend a few days in the hospital it was nice to have a bookshelf there and I'm sure the older kids would appreciate a better selection than what they usually have. Good luck, Melissa ---------------------------------------- We did a two week Easter Parade storyhour and the theme was hats. We readFrom: ann chapman [SMTP:amom124@yahoo.com] The Witch's Hat by Tony Johnston wearing a witch hat, Pizza Man by Marjorie Pillar wearing paper bakers hat from local pizza place, Caps for Sale by Slobodkina, the flannelboard story Little Puff's Easter Bonnet, Tom and Pippo at the Beach by Oxenbury and made a newspaper hat during story, and The Hat by Jan Brett. We also made up and presented the Windy Day Hat flannelboard, our own original pizza flannelboard - a flannel pizza with all kinds of flannel pizza toppings that each child took a turn adding to the pizza, I added lots of bright yellow yarn at the end for the cheese, and made flannel pieces to go along with a Clown's Hat Poem. We made Paper Plate Easter Bonnets and Leprechaun Hat Windsocks for craft. I can send craft and flannel patterns along as an attachment if you send me your e-mail address. Ann Vicki Shroyer <vickis@yellowbananas.com> wrote:HELP!!!!! Our elementary (K-4) school is having a book fair with the theme, "Hats Off to Reading". The PTO came to me for an idea or two to promote it through the library. The art class is making hats to hang on the walls. I am stumped for an idea--any thoughts????? ---------------------------------------- I am no prude but I saw that ad and was totally disgusted. In fact IFrom: Christine Gogolowski [SMTP:chrisg@tln.lib.mi.us] tried to go and complain at their web site but none of the contacts was viable. ---------------------------------------- I have an unusual request for you and I am hoping that someone can contactFrom: MzLibrary@aol.com [SMTP:MzLibrary@aol.com] the right person in his/her library who can help me. One of my patrons (adult) has damaged an album belonging to a customer. The pages that are damaged are pages from Modern Bride, Brides and Vogue magazines from 1993. I have searched the catalogs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and with the exception of Wellesley, Massachusett's collection of Vogue there do not seem to be copies kept. My patron called the magazines directly and he was told they could not, or would not, help him. I have copies of the pages here. I told him some time ago that the library would certainly be able to help and I am afraid that I won't be able to. Libraries apparently do not circulate copies of magazines and he or I will have to travel to Wellesley for the Vogue pages but I am unsure how I can get color copies of these pages. Can any of you help? Perhaps if you are from a large library that has 10 years plus of magazines in your collection you could have your reference librarian contact me? Thanks, Charlotte Rabbitt Charlotte Rabbitt, Children's Librarian http://www.mrsrabbitt.blogspot.com Peterborough Town Library Peterborough, New Hampshire "Oh, magic hour when a child first knows it can read printed words!" from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith mzlibrary@aol.com crabbitt@townofpeterborough.us http://townofpeterborough.com/library ---------------------------------------- All three of these came in one digest:From: Bonita Kale [SMTP:Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org] >It seems that her >daughter only wants to use the computers when they come to the library >and doesn't want to sit and share books with her mother anymore. The >parent asked if we would consider having our computers only "open" at >certain times of the day, because it would be during those times that >she would come to the library with her daughter. > I cringe when the >parents say, >"Johnny, you better behave in the library otherwise they won't let you >come back." >I always smile and say we'll always let you come back. >I once had a storyhour child reach in and grab our library guinea pig. I >heard the terrified squealing and told him that this was not allowed. >His mother said that in her house if I child asks politely and says >please he is allowed to have his request "respected". He had asked me >earlier and I told him no. Oh and she does not use the word no with her >children. So it seems we've got two types of parents who want the library to raise their kid for them: the ones who want to rely on the library for discipline, and the ones who want library rules to match her own. Sheesh. One useful thing about the library is that it's a relatively non-threatening place to learn that things are different away from home. If that guinea pig mom thinks her child is never going to get told "no" when he asks politely, I wonder what world -she- lives in! We have mothers who ask how long the child is allowed on the computer; sometimes what they want is for someone else to be the bad guy. We don't kick children off unless other children are waiting, though. The thing that astonishes me is the helpless parents who can't figure out how to get the children off the computer once they're on. I do, however, remember being a parent. Things that seem small to me now seemed BIG indeed back then--my whole being was focused on what was best for my children. It's a very strange time. Bonita ---------------------------------------- I'm not really "in the loop" as far as our compliance, but we have severalFrom: nkoebel@birchard.lib.oh.us [SMTP:nkoebel@birchard.lib.oh.us] issues here. Currently we don't filter. We do, however receive E-rate money, especially to help defray some of the telecommunications costs for T-1 lines we run to our branches (they are perhaps more costly because we have 3 different local phone companies involved, SBC/Ameritech, Verizon, and Sprint). We just found out that we might be able to get wireless connections to replace the T-1 lines through the consortium we belong to. In that case we might not need the filtering software. Nancy Koebel Birchard Public Library of Sandusky County nkoebel@birchard.lib.oh.us ---------------------------------------- I just did this project at my library. We use dewey and brought the callFrom: Kelly Laszczak [SMTP:zcz23@msn.com] number out 5 places. There is a pretty clear description on how to do this in the DDC21...really it is clear, I'm not a cataloger either and I got it. Basically, all folktales are 398.2 . Then you add 09 to designate a country. They there is a chart for the number of each county, Japan is 52. So a Japanese folktale would be 398.20952. The chart is on Table 2 in vol. 1 of DDC21. Let me know if that doesn't make sense. -Kelly Laszczak Hinsdale Public Library ---------------------------------------- Bonita: We did Plant-A-Seed-Read! for National Library Week this year. WeFrom: ann chapman [SMTP:amom124@yahoo.com] offered a "Garden Party" in our Youth Program Room 3 afternoons that week staffed by members of our local Garden Club. The Garden Club paid for peat pots, potting soil and nasturtium and green bean seeds for 50 and participants came in on a drop-in basis(we ran out and had to buy more!) during the advertised staffed hours with parental supervision required for those under age 9. I put drop cloths on the floor and brought in my wheelbarrow from home and filled it up with potting soil and provided a couple of trowels(also from home)for the kids and adults to fill their pots and plant their seeds. We displayed a nice variety of Youth and Adult garden books for perusal and check-out and played a bird song cd in the background. Our craft person cut out shapes of birds, flowers and butterflies from posterboard and left out a self serve crayon rubbing craft using pastels and brights for a festive, springy look. The kids embellished the rubbings with their own drawing to make a Spring Scene. It turned out to be nice outreach with the Garden Club members - they loved being here and interacting with our patrons esp. the Young Adults - and the bonus was that a lot of our middle school students that are in the library everyday after school participated and liked the project and chatting with the Garden Club people a lot too! Our local paper caught on and since it involved two big community resources - us and the Garden Club - came in and took pictures in advance and we were on the front page-full page in color- for National Library Week! Fun! Ann onita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org> wrote: First, thank you all so much for the many great ideas about Ancient Egypt programs. Second, I have a request from another pair of co-workers: "Would you please request the collective PUBYAC mind to send any ideas for programming about gardens, flowers, or gardening that they have done? Successfully, we hope! We would like to do one, but are woefully short on creative ideas to pull the kids in." So--any thoughts? Bonita "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books." Longfellow 'Morituri Salutamus', 1875 Ann Chapman Marshall District Library Marshall, MI ---------------------------------------- Hooray and a big thanks to Lori O'Donnell for finding the answer to myFrom: Carol Hopkins [SMTP:CarolH@ci.puyallup.wa.us] stumper (see below). It was PEPPINO, pictures by Sita Jucker, text by Ursina Ziegler. Another happy patron is singing the praises of her library! Carol Hopkins Puyallup Public Library ---------------------------------------- Is it just me, or does anyone else see parallels to the mail items in Harry Potter?From: Ellen Little [SMTP:elittle@pts.edu] Ellen Little Circulation Supervisor Barbour Library Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 412-441-3304 x2274 elittle@pts.edu ---------------------------------------- Vicki,From: Jennie Stoltz [SMTP:jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us] I've created two special collections for my graphic novels/comic books. In the children's dept. I have an area called Comic Books. We include the Garfield, Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Pokemon, lower level Spiderman/Batman/etc. books in there. These were originally all in the 700's mixed up with everything else and since I created this new collection the books are NEVER on the shelf. In the YA section I have a Graphic Novels area. In there I put traditional graphic novels and more "racy" comic books like X-Men/Star Wars, etc. The ones that have the bosom-y babes in them. Both sections are catalogued as fiction. I think putting any of these books in the 700 section only makes them get lost. Most kids, until they happen across that section or think to look it up, may never find it. The kids that read these are looking for entertainment/recreational reading and I think that putting them in fiction is much more appropriate. Good luck, Jennie Jennie Stoltz Children's Services Coordinator Frank L. Weyenberg Library Mequon/Thiensville, WI End of PUBYAC Digest 1212 |
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