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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: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1250

    PUBYAC Digest 1250

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) another reference source
by "Carol and Gary Levin" <cglevin@access4less.net>
  2) RE: STUMPER - man entombed in brick wall
by Jill Dempsey <jdempsey@kenton.lib.ky.us>
  3) From The Mixed Up Files- Activities/Scavenger Hunt
by <rizzol@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
  4) book sale prices, fee programs
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>

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From: "Carol and Gary Levin" <cglevin@access4less.net>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: another reference source
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:25:55 CST

Amazon.com today (and maybe before today) has this notice posted on its main
page:

"Dear Amazon.com Customers:

"Starting today, you can find books at Amazon.com based on *every word*
inside them, not just on matches to author or title keywords.  Search Inside
the Book -- the name of this new feature -- searches the complete inside
text of more than 120,000 books. . . "

Potential solving aid?

I don't know how many children's books are included....but worth trying for
your "stumpers"

Carol Levin

Enjoy Life! This is not a Dress Rehearsal!

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From: Jill Dempsey <jdempsey@kenton.lib.ky.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: RE: STUMPER - man entombed in brick wall
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:26:17 CST

I should have mentioned that the stumper below is NOT one of Edgar Allen=
 Poe's stories.  The patron thinks it is a folk tale, and it is about=
 someone who walls HIMSELF up.

Thanks!


>-----Original Message-----
>
>Help!  We have a patron looking for a book he read almost 40 years >ago. =
 He thinks it was a folk tale from another country.  The story >is about a=
 man who builds a brick wall and ends up entombing >himself.  (Oops!)
>
>If this sounds familiar to anyone, please respond to me at
>jdempsey@kenton.lib.ky.us.  Thanks!
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jill M. Dempsey
>Supervisor of Children's Services
>Erlanger Branch Library
>401 Kenton Lands Road
>Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
>859-962-4000, ext. 4118
>jdempsey@kenton.lib.ky.us
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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From: <rizzol@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: From The Mixed Up Files- Activities/Scavenger Hunt
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:26:38 CST

Sorry I'm resubmitting my query, but I thought if I gave it a new subject
heading
it would get more responses.  Thank you for understanding.

I am planning on doing a book discussion on From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil
E. Frankweiler with my fourth and fifth grade book discussion group in
February
and need some help.  I would really like to do a fun activity such as a
scavenger
hunt in the library.  If I choose to do a scavenger hunt, I still haven't
decided
if all of the clues will be related to the book or just fun clues.  I have
never
done a scavenger hunt but I figured that I would make up clue cards and
place them
in the back pocket.  Once the book is found the student would use the clue
to find
the next book, and so on until they have found all of the clues.  Does
anyone have
a scavenger hunt success story?  Also, I would imagine that I would have to
make
up several different scavenger hunts in order to accommodate several two or
three
person groups.  If I can't work the scavenger hunt out, I was thinking of
doing a
visual scavenger hunt, something like Where's Waldo but with the
Metropolitan
Museum of Art.  The only activities I have found on the Internet are to be
used in
coordination with the Internet.  Bookscape has an excellent site in which
one may
visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, has links to the
Renaissance,
creating a treasure hunt about the book, about the author, and discussion
questions. http://www.ctnba.org/ctn/k8/mixedup.html   Yahooligans Teacher
Guide
has an excellent site for setting up an Internet Scavenger Hunt.
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/basil.html
Yahooligans also has a great site:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc3/yahooligans/mixedupfiles
There are reviews, a biography, Mixed Up Games, etc.

Also, if anyone has done any interesting crafts or games with this book I
would
love to hear about them.  I am thinking of doing a Michelangelo craft.
Possibly
having them do paintings while laying under a table (like the Sistine
Chapel), or
making a sculpture.  I could do something with Egyptian art too, possibly
have
them build a pyramid.

If I receive responses to this e-mail I will gladly share them with
everyone.

Thank you,
Laura Rizzo
Comsewogue Public Library
Children and Youth Services
rizzol@suffolk.lib.ny.us

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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: book sale prices, fee programs
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:30:52 CST

Booksale:

Our Friends of the Library book fair is going on now.  The prices are .50
for a hardback, .25 for paperbound, 1.00 for an audiobook or a cd, .50 for
an audiotape or a record, 2.00 for a VHS or DVD.

There are a few books, but -very- few, that go on a special table at higher
prices.

The last day is three hours of $2.00 a bag.

And there's still going to be a lot left.

My parents' library in has similar basic prices, but they have quite a few
more books for higher prices, 1.00 and up.  That doesn't seem to work at our
library, but our sale is a lot bigger, and we have less storage space, too,
so we really need to get rid of stuff.

Both libraries are outside of Cleveland, if that makes a difference.

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Fee programs:

Eric Norton writes: I don't mean to be rude or upset you but charging fees
in the public library in general is not a good thing.

Well, if Eric doesn't want to be rude, I have no trouble with it.  Your
director is an idiot.  Not only is charging fees a Really Bad Idea for a
tax-supported library, but said director is also proposing to shear the
sheep of their personal information?  No way!

Even when we do computer sign-up, we don't take any i.d., just first names
so we have (I tell the children) some way to yell at them.  ("Xavier, stop
leaning back in your chair!"  "Salecia, if I have to tell you to be quiet
one more time...")

I have very strong feelings about privacy, and I think it's important to
teach children that they don't have to give out information("Conquista, if a
computer asks your name, you can make one up.  It's a machine; you can't lie
to a machine.")

And, no, it doesn't matter if the purpose of collecting the information is
benevolent.

Bonita



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