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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, November 03, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1257
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Why make the books less specific by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com> 2) homework club contracts by Cindy Mediavilla <cmediavi@ucla.edu> 3) pubyac question about library policy by bonnie webster <msbonnie2562@yahoo.com> 4) Internet & Censorship by <michael.pepkin@verizon.net> 5) Reason for YA Advisory Boards by Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net> 6) More on groceries by "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> 7) Stumper Solved! [African American fiction with time travel] by "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> 8) Poetry book stumper - Woe is me by "Mary Voors" <Mvoors@acpl.lib.in.us> 9) Christmas book by eunjung lee <leeeun1013@yahoo.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Why make the books less specific MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:06:32 CST hmmmm. well here's an example of why some of us want more simplicity. this is an example of a call number we will soon have on a book that was just purchased about the new york yankees: Adult Nonfiction 796.735973849134 H3849B unfortanately no one will be able to see the spine at all because of the label so how would they know it's about baseball? we often have labels that take up more than half the length of the book. this makes it very difficult to browse titles because they're covered up. sure you can take simplicity too far in some cases but taking things out to the final decimal can also be frustrating. i think in the end it's about figuring out what works for your patrons. for collections like picture books and paperbacks we have decided that a more simplistic filing system works better for our patrons. our shelvers do a good job of keeping things by the same author together so we don't have to hunt for specific titles. bottom line is that good shelvers can put picture books in exact order without the complicated label. ~j. --- Mitzi Thomas <mthomas@co.st-johns.fl.us> wrote: > I can't imagine why anyone would want less > information on a spine label. > In our public library system we only have the last > initial of the author on > the picture books- it drives me crazy - even our > music CD's and videos have > the first 4 initials of title or author. Having > only the first initial > makes It is so difficult to find books. For > example, our books by author > last name beginning with C take up at least 7 > shelves. So looking for a > book by Eric Carle or Nancy Carlson takes forever. > As far as it being a > browsing collection - you can browse just as easy- > if not more effectively, > when the books are alphabetized. > > Mitzi Thomas, Librarian > St Johns County Public Library System > Ponte Vedra Beach Branch > ===== ~jenniferbaker fresno co. public library "I may not be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure seeker or a gun fighter Mr. O' Connell, but I am proud of what I am." "And what is that?" "I am a librarian!" ~ Evelyn, The Mummy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ------------------------------ From: Cindy Mediavilla <cmediavi@ucla.edu> To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" Subject: homework club contracts Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:07:01 CST dear all: just a reminder that my book _Creating the Full-Service Homework Center in Your Library_ (ALA, 2001) has sample homework contracts, as well as all kinds of tips for running your own program. Cindy Mediavilla cmediavi@ucla.edu ********* From: Lisa Hunziger <hunzigel@hhpl.on.ca> Hello everyone. Our library is planning on starting a homework club. We are planning on having some kind of contract for parents to sign. If your library has a homework club and you use contracts, would you consider emailing me a copy? Also, any tips, must-dos and don't dos would be great. Thanking you in advance, Lisa Hunziger Halton Hills Public Library Children's Services ------------------------------ From: bonnie webster <msbonnie2562@yahoo.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: pubyac question about library policy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:07:22 CST Pubyac, I would love to hear from you about something that has bug me for days. Our library has a book fair for two weeks each fall that is the way we get our free books to give to the children for prizes for summer reading program. I am in charge of everything for the fair. I clear my two weeks of everything I do it helps that school is out for fall break. Our fair this year was the best we have ever had we sold $2,877. worth of books. We got $1,677.00 in free books. Since my profit was so big there was not enough books to take from the cases so I decided to go 75 miles to their warehouse to spend my book profits. The warehouse is only opened 2 days in the next three months to spend book profits. My director told me I had to take a vacation day to go get books with our book profits. Is that a fair policy to use personal vacation days to get free books and put over $600.00 of books in the library's collection? I would love to hear from library directors about this or anybody else. We have a board meeting coming up next week and I will would like to question this policy. The warehouse was not opened on Sat. or I would have gone on my day off. You can respond to me msbonnie2562@yahoo.com Thanks! Bonnie ------------------------------ From: <michael.pepkin@verizon.net> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Internet & Censorship MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:07:45 CST Thank you to those that responded to my request for opinions and information on the Internet and censorship especially with regard to children. Any other responses would be greatly appreciated. Basically how do people feel about the Internet and censorship? As a parent, I feel we have a right to censor what our own children read and view. Geri michael.pepkin@verizon.net ------------------------------ From: Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net> To: roberta@effinghamlibrary.org Subject: Reason for YA Advisory Boards MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:08:09 CST Luckily I saved the digest with all the reading to dogs programs; otherwise, I would have forgotten to pose this about YA Advisory Boards which was also included. Besides all the reasons submitted and summarized by Roberta, YA Advisory Boards are a library service in experiential learning. By being allowed to do things for others and reflect on them, adolescents are able to test new roles in safe surroundings, one of their most profound developmental needs. The fact that the library offers them the chance to do this is a vital YA service in and of itself. Mary K. Chelton -- ****************************************** Mary K. Chelton Ph. D. Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Studies 254 Rosenthal Library Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 w (718) 997-3667 direct; 3790 office; 3797 fax h (631) 286-4255 mchelton@optonline.net ***************************************** ------------------------------ From: "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: More on groceries content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:17:39 CST Okay, so first of all "Tommy at the Grocery Store" is by Bill Grossman = -- dummy Katrina! Secondly, several have requested that I post the list of responses, so = here it is: Something Good by Robert Munsch On Market Street by Anita Lobel Sheep in a Shop by Nancy Shaw Grandpa's Corner Store by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take-Out by Ted Lewin The Shopping Basket by John Burningham Feast for Ten by Cathryn Falwell The Witches' Supermarket by Susan Meddaugh To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda Market Day by Lois Ehlert The Supermarket by Anne Rockwell Don't Forget the Bacon by Pat Hutchins Bear Goes Shoppping - Harriet Ziefert The O'Hare Family at the Supermarket - David Gantz Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy by Mary Rayner Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman Old Mother Hubbard (any edition) Let's Go Anna by Vivian French Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells Mrs. Piccolo's Easy Chair by Jean Jackson Pigs Go To Market by Amy Axelrod The Marvelous Market on Mermaid by Laura Krauss Melmed Farmer's Market by Paul Brett Johnson Max's Dragon Shirt, Rosemary Wells What Would Mama Do?, Judith Ross Enderle Tops & Bottoms, Janet Stevens Tom & Pippo Go Shopping, Helen Oxenbury Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina Teddy Bears Go Shopping, Susanna Gretz Thank you for all of your fabulous help!! Katrina Neville Librarian City of Moreno Valley 25480 Alessandro Boulevard Moreno Valley, CA 92553 t. 909-413-3880 f. 909-247-8346 e. katrinan@moval.org w. www.moreno-valley.ca.us ------------------------------ From: "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper Solved! [African American fiction with time travel] content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:18:25 CST PUBYAC does it again! The overwhelming response is "Trapped Between the = Lash and the Gun" by Arvella Whitmore. I have ordered a copy for my = patron. Thanks to Sandra Gillard, Julie Rines, Christy Williford, Kelly = Czarnecki, Lori Craft,and Jenifer Wagner for their swift responses! The = original stumper is below: KN I have a stumper for you: My patron remembers a book, possibly from the 1980s or 1990s about an = African American boy whose parents separate. He is to move away with = his mother and doesn't want to go. He takes his grandfather's pocket = watch and the watch transports him back in time to the time of slavery. Possibly a Coretta Scott King Award winner, but definitely an African = American author. =20 Any ideas? Many thanks, Katrina Katrina Neville Children's Librarian City of Moreno Valley 25480 Alessandro Blvd. Moreno Valley, CA 92553 t: 909-413-3880 f: 909-247-8346 e: katrinan@moval.org=20 w: www.moreno-valley.ca.us=20 =20 ------------------------------ From: "Mary Voors" <Mvoors@acpl.lib.in.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Poetry book stumper - Woe is me Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:18:44 CST Hello all! We are searching for a poem in a picture book format that is about careers; probably at least ten years old. It contains the lines "Woe is me, woe is me, when I grow up, what will I be?" and features career possibilities such as nurse, doctor, etc. TIA Mary Mary R. Voors mvoors@acpl.lib.in.us Children's Services manager Allen County Public Library 200 East Berry Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Check out the Children's Services homepage at: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/Childrens_Services/ Check out the Great Web Sites homepage at: http://www.ala.org/greatsites The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library. ------------------------------ From: eunjung lee <leeeun1013@yahoo.com> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: Christmas book Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:19:10 CST Hi!, I will have a book discussion class for age from 9 to13 years old in my church. I need some fiction books which are written about Christmas based on christianity. I have no good idea. Please help me to find good books for them. Recent one is more better. Thank You. ----Eun Jung Lee ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1257 *************************
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