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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>
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1238
Date: 10/10/03 11:05:14 PM
PUBYAC Digest 1238
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) stumper: poem line
by "Nancy B" <nancyb@lewistownlibrary.org>
2) RE: Another keeping your composure story
by "Keener, Lesa" <LKeener@acmail.aclink.org>
3) Re: Halloween @ your library
by jmaskell@sover.net
4) Survey Results: Hiring Preferences in Libraries
by "Wynkoop, Maureen" <maureen@camden.lib.nj.us>
5) Austin, Texas/Author Program
by Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
6) Teen Read Week
by "Baraboo Children's Dept." <barch@scls.lib.wi.us>
7) Re: Downloading Music Responses
by "Sandy" <hartsesa@oplin.org>
8) Stumper Solved: Angel Wing Ointment Book
by "Kirsten Klinghammer" <klingham@avantac.com>
9) anime magazines - RESPONSE
by Zandra Blake <zsblake@yahoo.com>
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From: "Nancy B" <nancyb@lewistownlibrary.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: stumper: poem line
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:29:14 CDT
A patron is looking for a children's poem with, she thinks, the phrase
"ibibity bibity sab." Does this ring any bells?
Thanks.
Please respond to: nancyb@lewistownlibrary.org
Nancy Bostrom
Youth Services Librarian
Lewistown Public Library
Lewistown, MT
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From: "Keener, Lesa" <LKeener@acmail.aclink.org>
To: <SLHenegar@ocpl.org>,
Subject: RE: Another keeping your composure story
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:30:46 CDT
I'll try this again. I incorporate yoga in my preschool programs. I was
showing a class at a local preschool how to meditate. Afterwards a
little girl said she was going to tell her mother that Miss Lesa
medicated her and it was fun. I made sure to correct her so her mother
wont think I brong valium with me. By the teachers had to go in teh back
because they were laughing.
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From: jmaskell@sover.net
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Halloween @ your library
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:31:28 CDT
>
> So how about sharing your library's Halloween
treat. I'll share
> bookmarks and Web graphics free for the taking and
a Web link.
>
Last year our TAC threw a Cirque Du Freak party (based on the books by
Darren
Shan) as a kick-off to our teen book group. The site is archived at
http://www.sover.net/~jmaskell/vampindex.html . Feel borrow to borrow any
source code, graphics, &/or text. :0)
~Sam
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Samantha Maskell, Youth Services Library
Rockingham Free Public Library
65 Westminster Street
Bellows Falls, VT 05101
802.463.4270
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From: "Wynkoop, Maureen" <maureen@camden.lib.nj.us>
To: "Wynkoop, Maureen" <maureen@camden.lib.nj.us>
Subject: Survey Results: Hiring Preferences in Libraries
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:31:54 CDT
At the beginning of the summer I sent an invitation to library listservs
requesting participation in an online survey: "Hiring Preferences in
Libraries: Perceptions of MLS graduates with online degrees." My
preliminary results are now available (although I still have some number
crunching to do!)
In a nutshell: I had 397 responses from all types of libraries, of many
different sizes. Library staff held many different positions and were of
all ages. Responses came from 49 of the 50 states, and 17 responses came
from outside the United States.
Results showed that 82% of respondents would hire someone with a degree
earned online, while 18% would not. While 43% of respondents felt that the
degrees were equivalent, 32% felt that a traditional course of study was
better, and 3% preferred the online degree. Twenty-two percent (22%) of all
respondents felt that they did not know enough about the online course of
study to be able to compare.
A number of respondents included comments on the reasons for their
preference. To see these comments and the complete survey results, go to
http://www.camden.lib.nj.us/survey/.
Many thanks to all who participated in the survey!
Maureen
Maureen Wynkoop
Information Technologies
Camden County Library
maureen@camden.lib.nj.us
<http://www.camden.lib.nj.us>
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From: Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
To: "'TX-YAC@lists.tsl.state.tx.us'" <tx-yac@lists.tsl.state.tx.us>
Subject: Austin, Texas/Author Program
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:32:28 CDT
Wednesday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Free
Will Hampton Branch Library, 5125 Convict Hill Rd.
892-6680
Pam Flowers, author of Alone Across the Arctic and Big
Enough Anna, will present a family program about her
books, training sled dogs, and running the Iditarod in
Alaska. Pam journeyed 2,500 miles from Barrow, Alaska
to Repulse Bay in Canada's Northwest Territory. This
was the longest solo dog sled trek by a woman in
recorded history and he first solo by a woman and the
first by an American over this route. Books will be
available for purchase to benefit the Friends of the
Library.
Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by
Dog Team is the story of a woman's solo journey from
Barrow, Alaska to Repulse Bay in Canada's Nunavut
Territory. In 1981, Flowers, a respiratory therapist
living in Texas, quit her job and moved to Alaska. Her
dream: to take a sleddog team across the Arctic. "This
is an engaging survival story with broad appeal,"
according to School Library Journal.
Anna may be the smallest dog in the litter, but she's
surely the most determined. In this incredible true
story, Anna joins a dog team for a 2,500-mile
expedition across the top of the world. When the lead
dog becomes lost, it's up to Anna to take his place.
Big Enough Anna: The Little Sled Dog Who Braved the
Arctic, chronicles this amazing story where children
learn that even the smallest, seemingly the most
powerless among us, are big enough to try their best.
Jeanette Larson
Youth Services Manager
Austin Public Library
P.O. Box 2287
Austin, TX 78768
512-928-3316
jeanette.larson@ci.austin.tx.us
www.cityofaustin.org/library
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From: "Baraboo Children's Dept." <barch@scls.lib.wi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Teen Read Week
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:33:04 CDT
Hello,
We have been reading with great interest everyone's Teen Read Week plans
and thought we would share ours. Our TAB teens just completed their event
planning at Tuesday's meeting.
This year they are teaming with the Media Centers at the middle and high
schools. All students who attend one or all of the TAB events at the
public library will receive a coupon which they can put in a drawing at
their school media center. The middle school center will be giving books
and the high school will be giving out fast food coupons. TAB is hoping to
attract more teens this way.
Sat. Oct. 18 will be the "Open Mic" kick-off event. Students are
invited to
B.Y.O.P. (bring your own poetry) and will be in for a fun time with
magnetic and tag-team poetry, an improv opportunity and snacks in the
"coffee" shop.
Tues. Oct. 21 is "Teen Read-In" evening at the library. This is a time
for
our teens to come in and "hang out" in the teen area, browse through
the
new books, talk with other teens and go online to vote for the top ten
books and fill out the SmartGirl survey. They are excited about this as we
will be "rigging" up a computer in their area for this evening. (There
isn't a computer in the teen area normally.)
Sat. Oct. 25 is the third event - a "Monster Mash" afternoon,
including a
mummy wrap contest, a "Horrors! It's Jeopardy" game, monstrous eats
and a
full-length "creature feature." We will be awarding small prizes
throughout.
Good luck to everyone and we hope you will all let us know how your events
went.
Karen Kjensrud
Baraboo Youth Services
Youth Services Staff
Baraboo Public Library
230 4th Ave., Baraboo WI 53913
Phone: 608-356-6166 FAX: 608-355-2779
barch@scls.lib.wi.us
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From: "Sandy" <hartsesa@oplin.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: Downloading Music Responses
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:34:03 CDT
The following are the responses I received from my
original posting
about allowing patrons to download music onto CDs or disks.
If anyone else would like to respond to the list I
would appreciate
it.
Thanks.
Sandy Hartsel
hartsesa@oplin.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Sandy" <hartsesa@oplin.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:58:49 CDT
Subject: Downloading Music
Are you allowing patrons to download music from the
Internet (sites
like Kazaa) onto CDs or disks?
Do you have a policy for this? If so, would you please
email me a
copy?
Thanks
Sandy Hartsel
hartsesa@oplin.org
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Responses I received:
Sandy,
Please post your responses.
I'd be very interested in the results and I'm sure others would be as
well.
Lisa
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We don't allow patrons to download music to burn on CDs, strictly data
files.
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No, we do not. Most of the drives on our Internet computers are locked
off. We have 4 Gates computers that have floppy disk drives and 4
off-line workstations with the windows office suite for homework.
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We have our floppy disk drives blocked and we do not have any cd
burners, so our patrons can't download and take music with them.
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We don't have a policy against it. However, our PC's do not have CD
burners and it would take multiple floppies to record one song. Because
of this we don't have a problem with patrons carrying copies of music
out of the building. They can download it and save it to the library
server, making the library the only place they can listen to it.
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We don't have an official written policy, but we do not allow it. Once
we said yes to a patron when he brought his own equipment to hook up to
our PC. It seemed to take forever, then he wasn't successful. Our
computer consultant may have had the terminals set up so he could not
download the music. We aren't very technologically savvy here, so I'm
not sure what happened. I also had some copywrite concerns, although
this was debated among the staff.
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Please post responses to the list--I think we're all struggling with
this issue, or will be.
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To download from Kazaa you have to actually download the software to
your computer. I would remove it because I don't allow people to
download actual programs on our computers. If they just download a song
or a file, I don't mind but I don't want anyone putting software
programs on my computer. Since it is illegal to download music and some
have been prosecuted for it, I would not allow Kazaa to be used. Are
people doing it? Probably. No one has been caught yet but I wouldn't be
surprised if they're removing their tracks. I do have some people come
in and copy their music but I don't ask whether they bought it before
copying. Hope that helps!
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From: "Kirsten Klinghammer" <klingham@avantac.com>
To: <Pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper Solved: Angel Wing Ointment Book
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:34:44 CDT
Thank you, fellow listmembers, for your quick replies! The suggestions
have
been unanimous that the following is the book I'm looking for:
"Could this be BLACK AND BLUE MAGIC by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1966
Garnering bits of info. from customers' comments on Amazon, it is an
ointment or cream that the boy is given that gives him wings. He does fly
around at night and is mistaken for an angel."
It's out of print, but I'm off to order a used copy now. Thank you!
Have a good day, all,
Kirsten
****
Kirsten Klinghammer
Sacramento Deaf Services Library Foundation
www.sacdeaflib.org=20
klingham@avantac.com (preferred)
kirsten_klinghammer@hotmail.com (backup)
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From: Zandra Blake <zsblake@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: anime magazines - RESPONSE
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:35:12 CDT
I would like to offer a BIG thanks to Aki Munnell, Kristin Fletcher-Spear
and Erin Helmrich for their valuable information/advice on Animerica and
Shonen Jump magazines. I really appreciate your willingness to be so
helpful.
For those who are interested, the responses are pasted below:
The difference between the two magazines is Animerica gives up-to-date
information about different anime and manga series, interesting articles
(interview with Hayao Miyazaki, the creator of Spirited Away), and
information about different conventions. Shonen Jump, on the other hand,
is
a magazine that contains mainly manga (Japanese comics). Some really
popular titles, such as Yu-Gi-Oh, are serialized in this magazine. Both
publish monthly and are the same price. I do know Animerica has a really
good subscription deal at the end of the year. It is like $29.95 for a
year's subscription. You end up saving about 40%. You might want to
subscribe to both because the content material is very different. But, if
you have to choose only one, I would recommend Animerica for general
information and Shonen Jump for manga.
Another magazine you might be interested in is Newtype
USA. It is
$9.95 per issue, but you end up getting a lot of extras that Animerica and
Shonen Jump don't offer. Newtype has postcards, posters, and a DVD of an
up-coming anime. The DVD only contains the first episode, but it does give
a really good glimpse into new titles. It is larger, both in amount of
pages and the page size. Newtype also goes into what's hot in Japan, which
Animerica and Shonen Jump don't do.
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Animerica is a magazine about anime in america and
Shonen jump is a
manga anthology that contains segments of manga in it (Yu-gi-oh, DBZ, Yu yu
Hakusho, sandlot, shamn king, etc.) I'd go with Animerica myself. Especially
if you buy the graphic novels of the aforementioned manga titles.
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Hi! Well, Animerica is a magazine about anime/manga and all things
relating
to that - with reviews, articles and interviews. Shonen Jump is a monthly
of actual manga -- it's pretty thick and uses the same kind of paper as
comics for the interior. Truthfully if you have the $$ I would get both
because they are different and will both be popular. If you don't have the
$ at least get Animerica - I use it collection development in addition to
the kids loving it.
Zandra Blake Youth Services LibrarianYpsilanti District Library229 W.
Michigan AvenueYpsilanti, MI 48197(734) 482-4110 ext. 1390
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End of PUBYAC Digest 1238
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