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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, September 15, 2003 11:01 PM To: pyowner@amber.jefferson.lib.co.us Subject: PUBYAC digest 1215 PUBYAC Digest 1215 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: Book Discussion Group - Name? by Erin Helmrich <HelmrichE@aadl.org> 2) Paperback vs. Hardback by Clara Eustis <cceustis@elltel.net> 3) Upset parent - child checking out non-children's material by Teresa J Oliver <tjo2@u.washington.edu> 4) Childrens Room Internet usage rules by "Elizabeth" <mslizreads@myway.com> 5) Searching for a title by Jennifer Parker <jparker@ocln.org> 6) Stumper birthday cake by "HONEY GOODWIN" <HONEY.GOODWIN@farmersbranch.info> 7) book set stumper--solved?? by "Amy Shelley" <AShelley@larm.lib.wy.us> 8) Stumper by Suzanne <library_lady2003@yahoo.com> 9) Emergent Literacy Conference by <kdeerr@suffolk.lib.ny.us> 10) Book on Muscular dystrophy, Kindergarten by "Sharon Castanteen" <sharoncast48@hotmail.com> 11) RE: FCUK perfume by "Eva Davis" <lunchgroup@hotmail.com> 12) Subject : Stumper - Magic Drawer by Jennie Stoltz <jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us> 13) HP read-alikes for non-fantasy fans by "Ann Job" <patiencejob@hotmail.com> 14) Re: Out-of-scope request by "Carol Nahrwold" <cnahrwold@acpl.lib.in.us> 15) RE: Computer hours by "Anita Palladino" <apalladi@ansernet.rcls.org> 16) Assistant Branch Manager by "Judy Dunahue" <Jdunahue@acpl.lib.in.us ---------------------------------- We called ours "Yakkin' & Snackin'"From: Erin Helmrich [SMTP:HelmrichE@aadl.org] Erin V. Helmrich Teen Services Librarian Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Avenue Ann Arbor MI 48104 helmriche@aadl.org 734-327-4227 (voice) 734-327-4283 (fax) ---------------------------------- Is anyone else bothered by the decline in the usage of hardback juvenileFrom: Clara Eustis [SMTP:cceustis@elltel.net] fiction? It seems I am constantly replacing paperback editions of titles which are read to death while the hardback editions sit on the shelf in pristine condition. I understand the appeal of the paperbacks to our young readers but I get the feeling our collections are becoming very transitory. Maybe I should just go with the flow but I am a little bothered by spending so much of my book budget on flimsy bound books that are constantly needing replacement. Clara Eustis Children's Services Manager Yakima Valley Regional Library ---------------------------------- I recently had a parent request that her child not be allowed to check outFrom: Teresa J Oliver [SMTP:tjo2@u.washington.edu] any adult material. I told her that our system tries to ensure that all material is available for any patron who needs it and that our circulation system was not set up to handle material specific blocks. I then encouraged her to view a trip to the library as family time, that she be present to make decisions about material with her child. Anyway, that's what I tried to tell her, but she left very upset. Does anyone know a good way to explain this situation that leaves everyone happy (or at least happier?) Thanks, Teresa Oliver ---------------------------------- I work in a small children's room with just two internet access computerFrom: Elizabeth [SMTP:mslizreads@myway.com] stations. Our rules indicate that these two terminals are for use by children in grades 2 through 5 only unless accompanied by an adult (older kids must use the public terminals in our computer room). Children may use the internet for 1/2 hour time slots, once a day, or 1 hour for research purposes. My problem is this: older children get on and play the Teen Titans game etc. on cartoonnetwork.com, younger kids see them playing and sign up and want on as well (with their parent's help). Frequently, there is only one person at the Children's room ref. desk, and we are asked to help parents navigate the net to get onto the internet games. When parents aren't knowledgeable about the internet gaming sites it starts to eat up a lot of our time teaching them how to access them. I'm curious to know how other small libraries handle children's room internet access and the children's overwhelming desire to play games (as opposed to doing research on them). I am an Information Specialist in our library, just starting my MSLIS. Thanks! Elizabeth Hobson I.S. Nyack Library ---------------------------------- Hello everyone,From: Jennifer Parker [SMTP:jparker@ocln.org] I have a question and hope that someone out there can help. I had a grandomoother come in to my library the other day looking for a picture book that explained where the moon went at night. It is a book that she said she took out from my library and it sounds very familiar but I can not think of the title. Thanks for you help. You can respond to me off list and I will send the answer to the list when it is found. Thank You Jennifer Parker jparker@ocln.org or jmpwel@yahoo.com ---------------------------------- Hello, All:From: HONEY GOODWIN [SMTP:HONEY.GOODWIN@farmersbranch.info] A patron is looking for a book where each child asks their mother to make them something special (the patron believes some of the items include pink lemonade and oatmeal). Mother tires of this, and the children combine each of their favorite foods to make their mother a birthday cake. Does this ring a bell with anyone? I have tried searching in A to Zoo and Amazon.com. Thank you for your help, Honey Goodwin Youth Services Supervisor Farmers Branch Manske Library Farmers Branch, TX honey.goodwin@farmersbranch.info ---------------------------------- I want to thank all of the wonderful responses I got to the 50s or 60sFrom: Amy Shelley [SMTP:AShelley@larm.lib.wy.us] green book set of collected stories. My patron failed to come in for some time and then finally picked up the information while I was on vacation. I do believe it was the Book House series that many of you intrepid librarians sent me, but I may never know unless she contacts me again. Thank you so much for your help and apologies for the late response. Amelia J. Shelley Manager, Youth and Outreach Services Laramie County Library System 2800 Central Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001 (307)634-3561, ext. 151 ashelley@larm.lib.wy.us ---------------------------------- A patron who is apparently working on getting her daycare license has askedFrom: Suzanne [SMTP:library_lady2003@yahoo.com] us for help with the following question. She needs 3 books "for children under three that support development of gender identity by portraying males and females in diverse roles. The copyright dates should be within the past 10 years." The books have to be durable so I am thinking they want board books. All the answeres we came up with for her did not fit the criteria and I am stumped. Please respond directly to me at the e-mail listed below. Thanks. Suzanne Kirk Children's Services Henry County Public Library 172 Eminence Terrace Eminence KY 40019 Phone 502-845-5682 Fax 502-845-4807 ---------------------------------- SAVE the DATE!From: kdeerr@suffolk.lib.ny.us [SMTP:kdeerr@suffolk.lib.ny.us] Libraries for the Future, Middle Country Public Library and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. present Libraries and Literacy: What Public Librarians Can Do To Foster Emergent Literacy Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 8am -12:15pm at the Information School, University of Washington, Seattle. Featuring presentations by national experts Barbara Kiefer, Charlotte Huck Professor of Children's Literature at Ohio State University, and Jennifer Birckmayer, former Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Human Development, Cornell University and freelance consultant in parent education and early childhood development. The symposium is underwritten by Innovative Interfaces, Inc, and the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation and is FREE to attendees. Please look for registration information on the LFF (lff.orgbrrograms/family.html) and MCPL Family Place websites (mcpl.lib.ny.us/familyplace.html) by mid fall. Registration brochures will be mailed to all ALSC members. Space is limited, so register early. For more information contact Kathleen Deerr at deerrkathleen@mcpl.lib.ny.us or Elissa Goldman at egoldman@lff.org. Come to the PLA Conference a day early and take advantage of this dynamic workshop. Hope to see you in Seattle. ---------------------------------- A patron would llike to read a book to her daughter's kindergarten class toFrom: Sharon Castanteen [SMTP:sharoncast48@hotmail.com] help them understand her disability. Her daughter has muscular dystrophy...no wheelchair, walker or cane, but just has trouble keeping up with the other kids, can't get up quickly from seated position, etc. I interloaned "Dan, my new neighbor" by Grace Moulton..and I found something in general for that age group on phsyical disabilities but each child had a clearly visible aid like a wheelchair.... is there anything else you could recommend? Sharon Castanteen Director of Children's Services River Edge Public Library 675 Elm Avenue River Edge, New Jersey 07661 201-261-1663 ---------------------------------- I haven't seen the ad you are referring to, but FCUK stands for "FrenchFrom: Eva Davis [SMTP:lunchgroup@hotmail.com] Connection--United Kingdom" and is a UK-based company that prides itself on bringing fashions and styles from the continent to the British isles. I'm sure they take advantage of their acronym in provocative ways, especially since that's how they are now widely known. Eva Davis Ann Arbor (MI) District Library _________________________ From: "Pamela Koehler" <pamkoehler@hotmail.com> To: sue.ridnour@flower-mound.com, pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: RE: Hawafena/Singing ad Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: textbrlain; format=flowed Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:28:20 CDT I totally agree. I could not believe that in a teen magazine they had a perfume named FCUK. Our circulation desk person asked if maybe the f was silent. I thought maybe I was just too old to appreciate stuff like this, but everone I asked agreed with me. To me it was over the top.. Pam, who couldn't find the musical ad anyway. ---------------------------------- Okay guys, I just had a patron come in looking for a book which she thinksFrom: Jennie Stoltz [SMTP:jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us] is about 20 years old. She said the book was about two girls that found a key that opened a magic drawer. Inside the drawer there was a box, a pair of gloves, some shoes and she said possibly one more item. When the girls used the things in the drawer they were magical, for example, when they put on the gloves it helped them pass a test in school. Also, whenever they would lose something, it would appear within the box. She things that they lost the key at one point and it appeared in the box (although my first thought is, if they lost the key and it appeared inside the box which was locked in the drawer, how did they get it out, hmmmmm?) Anyway, does any of this ring any bells for anyone. You can reply back to me directly if you like at jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us TIA, Jennie Jennie J. Stoltz Children's Coordinator/Webmaster Frank L. Weyenberg Library of Mequon/Thiensville, Wisconsin "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain ---------------------------------- Help!From: Ann Job [SMTP:patiencejob@hotmail.com] I'm been asked to talk briefly at a local Pi Lambda Theta (educational honor society) program about Harry Potter in November. I would like to include in my hand-outs read-alike bibliographies. I've saved many of the previous postings of these, and will use those. However, those bibs are very heavily Fantasy oriented. I appreciate the passion Fantasy fans have for their chosen genre, but one of the joys of HP is the broad appeal the books have to so many different audiences, and I don't want to overlook the non-Fantasy readers. Thus, does anyone have favorite recommendations for readers who loved Harry, but really aren't into Fantasy. Some of my favorites are: Joan Aiken John Bellairs Lloyd Alexander -- Vesper Holly series Barbara Brooks Wallace Roberts Peck -- Soup stories Andrew Clements John D Fitzgerald Lemony Snicket I will gladly compile and post the finished product to share. Please e-mail off list at patiencejob@hotmail.com Thanks so much, Ann Job soon to be at: Montville Public Library Montville, NJ ---------------------------------- Hello,From: Carol Nahrwold [SMTP:cnahrwold@acpl.lib.in.us] Of the needed magazines, we have only Vogue. We can make color copies of pages. Cost is $1.00 per page for color and $.20 for black and white. The color copier paper is a heavier, coated paper. There is also a $3.00 fee to cover postage and handling. We can send you an invoice with the pages. You can also request the pages via Interlibrary Loan. If you have other questions, please contact me. Sincerely, Carol J. Nahrwold Manager Readers' Services Allen County Public Library 200 East Berry Street, P.O. Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270 Phone: (260) 421-1236 Fax: (260) 421-1386 E-mail: cnahrwold@acpl.lib.in.us >>> MzLibrary@aol.com 09/11/03 03:25PM >>> I have an unusual request for you and I am hoping that someone can contact 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 ---------------------------------- We had a similar situation at a library i NJ. We got 'privacy screens' soFrom: Anita Palladino [SMTP:apalladi@ansernet.rcls.org] that only the person directly in front of the screen cuold see it. It got rid of our complainers and let our patrons surf wherever they want. The screens are fairly cheap - I think around $20. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Tara Mendez" <TaraM@mail2tara.com> Reply-To: pubyac@prairienet.org Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:02:48 CDT > >Let me add my story. We recently had this lady in a froth she was >waiting for our photocopier and there was a vacant internet station in >front of her apparently all of a sudden a "porographic picture" popped >up and she was agasp!!! I was not in the building so I could not deal >with her. I did call her when I returned and we had a long talk. She >wanted us to put the internet stations in a seperate room with a locked >door. ( I mentally added with Sani wipes too?) I explained the whole >public access yada yada. She wrote tothe mayor telling him how afraid >she was to allow her children into the library ever again that if they >had seen this it would have scarred them for life. Her children are 16 >and 14. I hate to break it to her but I am sure it would not have had >any impact on their lives. She is insisting on filtering and right now >we are sided stepping it. She is not willing to return to the library >until I can garantee that there will be no more pop ups. Or that we can >hide the monitors by placing them to face the wall so that noone can see >them, but againthis approaches the Sani wipe situation and is not >something we will practise. It is unfortunate how one vocal minority can >cause such havoc. > >Tara Mendez >Pembroke Public Library > ---------------------------------- Assistant Branch Manager (full-time)From: Judy Dunahue [SMTP:Jdunahue@acpl.lib.in.us] New Haven Branch Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN RESPONSIBILITIES: Work in a vibrant and valued neighborhood branch (new building to open in Fall 2003) to provide reference and readers' advisory assistance to patrons of all ages. Work particularly with young adults through outreach activities and development of the YA collection. Work in several areas of collection development for the branch. Plan and present programs for both adults and teens. Supervise the branch's strong volunteer program. Supervise the branch in the absence of the manager and serve on various system-wide committees. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: ALA-accredited Master of Library Science degree with training and/or experience with young adults. Some experience with children a plus. Excellent interpersonal communication skills for working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Genuine liking and understanding of teens as well as the general public. Strong general knowledge of a variety of subjects. Strong knowledge of popular fiction. Thorough understanding of internet search techniques and the Windows environment. Energy, tact, good judgment, resourcefulness, initiative, and a sense of humor. COMPENSATION: Salary $34,008 and up depending on experience. Library-paid single health, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability plans. Cumulative sick leave. Library-paid retirement fund. Personal business leave. Four weeks vacation. Deferred compensation plan. Federal credit union. Employee assistance program. Relocation allowance. Flexible spending account. Free parking and a variety of other benefits. APPLICATION: Please send letter of qualifications, resume, and the names of three work references to Human Resources, PO Box 2270, Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270, or e-mail to cholly@acpl.lib.in.us. Further information is available on our homepage: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us. Equal Opportunity Employer This announcement is intended as a general recruitment guide and is subject to change. It does not constitute either an expressed or implied contract. ************************************************ Judy Dunahue Human Resources Allen County Public Library PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270 phone: 260-421-1232 fax: 260-421-1389 ********************************************** End of PUBYAC Digest 1215 |
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