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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and
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To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1294
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) CD ROM games by "Kapila Sankaran" <ksankaran@springfieldpubliclibrary.com> 2) Poetry Slam Responses by <jhoffman@suffolk.lib.ny.us> 3) Looking for Fayth Cumberland by Jennifer Cunningham <cunningham@wrightlibrary.org> 4) PUBYAC Archives now available by "Pyowner" <pyowner@pallasinc.com> 5) Promoting folktales by "Juli Huston" <jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us> 6) Teen Summer Reading Incentives by "Ashley Flaherty" <AFLAHERTY@cml.lib.oh.us> 7) RE: Teen I & R by "Tobin, Renee" <Rtobin@ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us> 8) off-topic--a New Year invitation by "Susanna Holstein" <pkb00700@alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu> 9) biography stumper by jrines@ocln.org 10) science fiction vs. fantasy by BOGART Debra <dbogart@ci.springfield.or.us> 11) Michigan or Alaska? by Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com> 12) Native americans by "Patricia Hull" <phull@slco.lib.ut.us> 13) Re: Teen I & R by Susan Wizinsky <swizinsk@gfn.org> 14) Re: Promoting folktales by TEACHINGTALES@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kapila Sankaran" <ksankaran@springfieldpubliclibrary.com> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: CD ROM games MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:33:10 CST Dear List, I have a few technical questions regarding how different libraries make use of CD ROM games on computers. -Do you have more than one game computer? -Do you have to manualy insert games when patrons want them or are the games stored in the computer? -If you have multiple CD-ROM based games stored on one or more computers, how is this managed -- through a CD Jukebox or by use of other software/hardware? -Do you use products like CDROM emulator to store multiple games on a computer? If so, how has it worked for you? Problems? Kudos? Can you suggest other products that do similar things? Any thoughts you can give on the above, I will be so grateful for! Thanks for reading, as always. Kapila ===================================== Kapila Sankaran, Youth Services Librarian Springfield Free Public Library 66 Mountain Ave. Springfield NJ 07081 tel: 973.376.4930 x.232 fax: 973.376.1334 email: ksankaran@springfieldpubliclibrary.com ===================================== ------------------------------ From: <jhoffman@suffolk.lib.ny.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Poetry Slam Responses Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:33:30 CST Dear PUBYACers, Here are the responses that people sent regarding poetry slam testimonials. Thanks again to you all. My original post read: Hi! I am a library student doing a paper on poetry slams for young adults. I have quite a bit of useful information but am lacking testimonials from libraries who have actually tried it. Would anyone be willing to share their successes or failures on this subject with the collective ear? thanks, Jane Hoffman Sayville Library Sayville,NY Last spring we held a successful poetry slam. We did it again for Teen Read Week and didn't have as large a group of participants. But it was a Friday night when the State Fair was in town and football games were going on. You live and learn. . . . There were 2 competitions. One for teens wanting to perform a poem written by someone else. The second for teens who wanted to read poems they had written. The audience judged the performance. Each person in the audience was given numbers 1-5 to hold up after each poem was read. A fellow staff member quietly read the scores to me while I recorded them. At the end each poets score was added and divided by the total number of people in the audience that voted. The 2 poets with the two highest scores in each category received $10 and $5 gift certificates to Barnes and Noble. While the winners were being tabulated, I took the opportunity to booktalk "poetic novels." That's what I call these recent novels that are written all in verse such as "Out of the Dust" and "Love That Dog" and "What My Mother Doesn't Know." I read one poem from about 8 books and gave a short little summary of what the book was about. I have a booklist with annotations. If you would like a copy, let me know. We also held an icebreaker at the beginning with lots of words typed up and placed in envelopes. The entire audience, parents and all, were divided into teams and given 5 minutes to create a poem with some of the words in the audience. They were given gluesticks and white paper to create their poem. Then a volunteer from each group shared their poem with the group. We posted the poems created in the library for all to see. I have this collection of miscellaneous words saved on a Word file if you would like it. Kerri Meeks Youth Services Librarian Southeast Regional Library Well, We had a partial slam (i.e. we allowed reading of published work as well as original material) for Teen Read Week and, due to popular demand, we have done for our standing Thursday afternoon program slot about every other week since then. I have to say that, while many of the kids/teens are not the most animated readers, they obviously love poetry. Hope this is what you were looking for. --Sean <><><><><><><> Sean P. S. George, Senior Librarian- Youth Services Memphis/Shelby County Public Library & Information Center Raleigh Branch Library 3157 Powers Road Memphis, TN 38128 Hi, Jane, We held our first poetry slam at Coshocton Public Library to celebrate Teen Read Week. I invited the 4 area high schools to select 4 student poets to send to the competition, explaining that presentation was just as important as the writing in a slam. I also pointed out that the teens would be judged by audience members and the judges would be cheered or booed, so the poets should invite friends and family to support them. Three of the schools participated and we had over 50 people, including friends, parents, and teachers. The teens loved it. The poets who didn't make it to the last round were the judges for the finalists. They asked to do it again! RoseMary Honnold Coshocton Public Library 655 Main ST Coshocton, OH 43812 We've had trememndous success with them, about 75 teens a year participate. I give cash prizes ($15 for 1st, $10 for second, $5 for 3rd) which helps. We have a large following from the alternative schools in our community and I directly market the event to English teachers about 3 weeks in advance which also helps. Let me know if you'd like to know anything else. Amelia J. Shelley Manager, Youth and Outreach Services Laramie County Library System 2800 Central Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001 Jane, I recently held a Teen Poetry Slam. It was this past October and was intended as the kick off event for Teen Read Week. I contacted the middle and high school english teachers to ask them if they would offer extra credit ot their students for attending the poetry slam. Some teachers said yes, but I am afraid I was a bit too late in the asking. 14 people came to the slam. Fewer than I expected. Registration was required and only a couple of people signed up. So of course I did not turn anyone down when they showed up at the last minute! I had intended to follow the official poetry slam rules (e.g. time limits, had to be an original poem, no props or costumes, judges selected from the audience). But since there was such a small turn out I let the group decide how they wanted the competition to be structured. Only four attendess took part in the poetry performance. We did get 3 teen judges from the audience. And only 3 of the four contestants had their own poems to perform (despite the fact that the PR materials stated it had to be an original poem). I had ordered PR materials from ALA, which arrived very late....only 3 days before Teen Read Week was to begin! I ordered several sets of the ALA magnetic poetry. The teens loved playing with those. I also played a few tracks from "The spoken word revolution: slam, hip-hop, & the poetry of a new generation" CD. It's a book that comes with a CD of poets performing at slams. My teens loved listening to these tracks at my slam. I also used Microsoft Publisher to make banners with poetry quotes. I hung the banners in the room for the slam. One of the banners read: "Poetry is like taking life by the throat"--(Can't remember the author of the quote right now). I also served free refreshments. And their was a door prize for the winner and runner up of the slam. (poetry books of course!). I do plan on having another poetry slam some day. But I may incorporate it into an open mic night instead..perhaps during national poetry month. This was my first attempt at a slam. I had never attended one either. But I did alot of reading up and listening before hand. It was this reading and listening that got me exited about the event. I learned that you have to be flexible with the rules in this type of event. I hope this helps. Nathalie Demers, M.L.I.S Teen Services Librarian Wilmington Memorial Library 175 Middlesex Ave. Wilmington, MA 01887 Hello! We have done several poetry slams here in Carrollton, Ohio. We have the 7th & 8th grade Language Arts classes coming down once a month to use the library. I do a small program with them for about 1/2 hour and then they check out books. In April, we do Poetry. I burn incense, bring in bongos, and other percussion instruments, and I start us off with a couple poems that I like, then open the floor. The kids are told the month before what we'll be doing and they can bring in their own original poetry or something they've read and enjoyed. I wasn't sure what their reactions would be, if they would groan through it or get into it and I was pleasantly surprised to find they liked it! Lots of them brought in poetry and read it out loud to the rest of the class. If we liked it (which we almost always did) we snapped our fingers or played the bongos. It was very fun and we all heard poems that we might not have ever read. I think its a great way to get kids to enjoy poetry. When I was in jr. high, we had a poetry unit and I absolutely detested it-every year! It was so-o boring! If only my teachers would have had some fun with it! Good luck with this! Hello, I am just catching your query. Your question interest me. However, my experience is that poetry slams, although popular in urban places like New York City, Philadelphia or the West Coast, have not yet caught on everywhere. A failure as I understand your query would mean no one showed up. Teen Read Week's most recent theme was Slammin' yourlibrary. However, there were several listserv strings which pointed to the fact that while many systems were planning slams,many librarians or staff were unfamiliar with the concept or idea of poetry slams. Perhaps if you asked about poetry programs, or open microphone readings in general you would get a wider response. My experience is that I have conducted slams in a couple of systems, my former experience is that they were well received. However, it was in Connecticut and it took a while for the competition aspect to catch on. At the same time, I held open microphone readings which enabled those who were not interested in the competition to still participate. Currently, I am located in North Carolina and had a Slam program scheduled for the Teen Read Week theme and did not have enough participants or audience to hold an official slam. (I have only been here a year) I had one poet at one community branch library and at another there were about 5 participants, no audience unrelated to the poets. Additionally, they were not familiar with the concept or rules of slams and so it was turned into an open microphone reading with only the idea of slams being introduced and explained. I hope this helps. Like I stated earlier, the concept of poetry slams, although in several places have been going on for years, across the country, it has not been attempted with in the arena of libraries in general. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Aissatou Sunjata Assistant Youth Services Coordinator Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center 300 Maiden Lane Fayetteville, NC 28301-5000 Dear Jane, I am a Young Adult Librarian at the Omaha Public Library, Omaha, Nebraska. One of our branch managers just sent me your PUBYAC posting, and asked me to respond, because I have chaired our teen Poetry Bash the last 3 years. Omaha Public Library has done a city-wide poetry bash for teens for about the last 6 years. They have been very successful. I can send a copy of our flyer if you reply back with your mailing address. (Last year's flyer) The basics of our Poetry Bash are as follows: For 7th - 12th grades only (that is how we define Young Adult here). Cash prizes ($100 for first place, $50 for second place, $25 for 3rd place.) (Also a local poet gives two $50 prizes of her own choosing-she wants to do this to support young people and poetry.) We hold the Bash at our Main Library, which has a Coffee Shop covering about ¼ of the main floor. So it's a cool atmosphere which the teens enjoy. We had to start limiting registrations, and we have to limit it to 60 entrants due to the time factor. (A Sunday afternoon.) (We usually get lots more phone calls than 60. This year we're going to take a waiting list, and then actually call and remind everyone, and then put teens in from the waiting list if someone cancels out. Last year we didn't take a waiting list, but extras could walk in, but that didn't work very well. The previous year we DID get lots of walk-ins, so things vary from year to year. But definitely make a policy about walk-ins!!) The First Round is conducted in two separate parts of Main Library. 7-9th together. 10-12th together. Then the 6 or 7 top scorers advance to the Second Round. Must sign up in advance, and registration is limited to the first 30 in each age category. (7-9th and 10-12th). We hire a young local poet to emcee the Bash, and to line up the 6 judges, and he also lines up one other emcee for us. (We pay the other emcee also, and gave $25 gift certificates to the 6 judges last year-this helps him recruit them.) The judges score each performer on a 10-point scale, and hand the papers to a scorekeeper, who tallies the score and announces it after each poet reads their poem. We blanket the middle schools and high schools with flyers a few weeks ahead of registration opening. - To the English teachers and Librarians. (It's important to distribute this all within about a 2-day period, and just before the opening of registrations.) Poets are told to each bring two poems, which they have written. (They need the second one only if they advance to the final round.) On the day of the Bash, as they sign in, they draw an Easter egg from a basket, and their # is inside. (The order in which they will perform. That way it's totally unbiased.) They are judged on the quality of the poetry as well as their oral performance. They never turn in the written version of the poem (although we ask the winners for a copy of theirs to put on the library website). The emcees do all kinds of Poetry-related announcements in between performers-while the scores are being tallied. We also draw for door prizes between every few performers. They also say lots of encouraging things to the poets, in general. PLUS, we give them announcements about our Teen Summer Reading Club and upcoming Teen programs of all kinds. 3 judges judge the 7-9th in the first round, and the 3 others judge the 10-12th in the first round. Then all 6 judges judge the Second Round. We do not allow offensive language. The emcees announce that on the day of the contest, going over the rules before it starts. We have only one # to call for the required advance registrations-they do this at the Info Desk at Main Library. This year we are adding a completely separate written contest, and will allow an unlimited # of teens to enter, but each can only submit one poem. This is because we are looking for a way to have wider participation, and because we hate to limit it to 60, (but that's what it takes to get it all done in one afternoon). We don't have all the rules nailed down for that yet. Except that the winning poems in the written contest cannot be performed in the Poetry Bash itself (though the same teen may enter with another poem). And, we will have the WINNERS of the written contest read their poems at the Poetry Bash, or have someone else read it in their stead. (The written contest will also provide for those who are good at writing poetry but don't want to perform it publicly. There are probably many of those.) We are going to give the same cash prizes--$100, $50, and $25. The written contest will be in the earlier part of April, and the Poetry Bash in 2004 will be on April 25th. We actually hand them the cash at the end, as the winners are announced and come forward. This incentive helps make it successful, we think. We say it has been very successful because of the high volume of calls we get from teens wanting to sign up. Also the quality on the day of the event can be awesome. Not everyone, but most of them are good, and some are amazing. And it's an event that draws teens from all over the city, and a few from neighboring communities. Some bring their friends to cheer them on. Many parents attend. We think it draws a lot of teens who don't seem to have any other venue for their poetry interest, too. One thing I think is great is that we always get several teens from Boys Town (Father Flanagan's Boys and Girls Town-nationally famous large residential program for troubled teens). We have considered dividing it and doing the younger half on one day and the other half on another day, but that's just too hard to free up staff for two different days. But I would like to do that, and then accept 60 on each day, to expand. For a city the size of Omaha, we would like to be able to have more participate. We have a planning committee of 3 Young Adult Librarians, and the 3 other YA Librarians each help out on the day of the event, and one of them lines up the door prizes. And we consult the others at our monthly YA Librarian meetings. We get funding from our programming budget at each branch, plus some money from the Friends of the Library. We also have a Special Projects Department, which makes flyers and posters for us, and sends out news releases (though I usually write the news release, and then they look it over and spice it up a bit, and then send it out). But we have at least 6 YA Librarians running things on the day of the event, and we need them all. Last year we had to have the event the first Sunday in May, due to other conflicts in April. The Tornado Warning sirens went off as the last teen was performing, so we had to move to the basement. We announced the winners down there (luckily there is a large conference room down there), took photos, and then had several impromptu poetry performances-the emcees performed some, the judges performed some, and the most adventurous teens performed more of theirs. It was an amazing day. Some of the teens groaned that they finally did have to go home when the Tornado Warnings were lifted. If you have any questions, please e-mail me back. I might have left something out that's important, so let me know.... henriksn@omaha.lib.ne.us <mailto:henriksn@omaha.lib.ne.us> Mary Henriksen Young Adult Librarian I have used poetry slams in libraries, and they are such a great way for young kids, teens and adults to share their experiences with each other. I would highly recommend doing this at any library. All you need is a space and youth who trust the library to provide a safe venue for them. Providing treats also helps draw in reluctant kids. I host a writing group with youth one day/week after school where kids can congregate, eat treats and hear each others poetry. I provide prompts and keep the room civil (ie: no putting down other kids' poetry, only positive feedback), and share my own writings. Other than that, it's really no work if you like being with energetic youth! I let them plan the open mics, so they have ownership over the projects. Let me know if you are looking for specific anecdotes or any further information. marika staloch Rice St. Branch Library Saint Paul Public Library ------------------------------ From: Jennifer Cunningham <cunningham@wrightlibrary.org> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Looking for Fayth Cumberland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:43:14 CST Fayth had posted at one point that she had created an activity booklet for a Lemony Snickett party at the Concord Library. I would like to get ahold of that booklet if it's still available to get some ideas for my own party. Thanks for any help! Jennifer Cunningham Wright Memorial Public Library 1776 Far Hills Ave Dayton, OH 45419-2598 937-294-7171 cunningham@wrightlibrary.org ------------------------------ Message-ID: <000901c3c6a6$e733ac60$b1d7c7ac@aoldsl.net> From: "Pyowner" <pyowner@pallasinc.com> To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: PUBYAC Archives now available Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:10:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello PUBYACkers, Most of you don't know this, but your moderator has been on sabbatical for the last three months. Today is my last official day of freedom. One of the things I've been able to do is spend lots of time testing and figuring out different Internet archive possibilities for our listserve. There is a lot of extremely mediocre stuff out there. The PUBYAC webpage has now been fully updated, and the archives are available for searching. Currently only three months are available, but that will grow over time. So stop by the PUBYAC website at www.pallasinc.com/pubyac and check it out. There are now web links to subscribing and unsubscribing, so it is even easier to start or end a subscription. Shannon VanHemert PUBYAC Moderator pyowner@pallasinc.com ------------------------------ From: "Juli Huston" <jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Promoting folktales MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:47:44 CST Hello all, I am currently undertaking a massive end of the year review of my collection and am finding that the 398 section isn't moving much despite the number of wonderful books that are there. What creative ideas do you all have for promoting folktales in your libraries? You can respond directly to jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us and I'll compile a list of responses for the listserv. Thank you in advance. Juli Juli Huston Children's & Young Adult Librarian Solano County Library Rio Vista Branch jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us ------------------------------ From: "Ashley Flaherty" <AFLAHERTY@cml.lib.oh.us> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Teen Summer Reading Incentives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:59:37 CST Hi all, My library system is planning our incentives for the 2004 summer reading program, and we were considering purchasing books to use as an incentive item. I am curious to know if any of your locations have used books. If so, where the books donated from a publishing company? If you purchased the books, where did you buy them and approximately what was the cost? Thank you. Ashley Flaherty Teen Services Librarian Center for Discovery Columbus Metropolitan Library aflaherty@cml.lib.oh.us ------------------------------ From: "Tobin, Renee" <Rtobin@ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us> To: "'BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us'" <BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us>, Subject: RE: Teen I & R MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:59:56 CST This is not something our library has the staff or space to provide so unfortunately I can't offer advice. I am curious however as to why you seem hesitant to provide material on some points of view? Wouldn't you want to offer a teenager the opportunity to choose what is of interest and value to them? Renee Tobin Senior Librarian Rancho Cucamonga Public Library -----Original Message----- From: Karen Brown [mailto:BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:23 PM To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Teen I & R We have interest in improving our I & R service for teens. Yet we foresee many challenges. Limited space, controversial issues, time, etc. I would like to hear from people who have a more proactive I & R service for teens. Perhaps you could let me know - Do you display posters and brochures? How do you deal with people who want their point of view availble to counteract Planned Parenthood and PFLAG, for example? Other tips? Thanks. Karen Brown brownk@ci.monterey.ca.us Youth Services Manager Monterey Public Library 625 Pacific Street Monterey, CA 93940 831-646-3744 ------------------------------ From: "Susanna Holstein" <pkb00700@alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: off-topic--a New Year invitation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:35:02 CST Dear listmembers, I have enjoyed being a member of this list for the past 7 or 8 years. I'd like to extend an offer to you that I extend to other listserves I am on: I invite you to send your troubles to me to burn in our New Years bonfire. This has become a family tradition--we pile brush, old lumber, logs too big for the woodstove and light it up on New Years Eve. We print out or write out the troubles sent to us and throw them into the fire one at a time as the night progresses. Last year over 170 people from around the world sent us their troubles and we were happy to see them all burn. There's no need to specify your troubles--just say burn this and we'll do it. If you prefer to write it out, be assured that it remains with us in confidence. What better way to start the year, knowing your problems are being burned in a beautiful bright fire high on a ridge in the mountains of West Virginia (USA)? Granny Sue Stories from the Mountains and Beyond R2 Box 110 Sandyville, WV 25275 1-877-459-5502 (toll-free) ------------------------------ From: jrines@ocln.org To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: biography stumper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:36:52 CST Hello all, I have a real tough one here from my own daughter. She is a third grader and her next book report has to be a biography and she wants to do it on a Pilgrim woman, since of course one of the presentation options is to dress up to deliver the report. I'm not sure her teacher will approve Sarah Morton's Day for a couple of reasons, it is pretty short, a little on the easy side for her , she has probably read it 4 times in the past few months and while about a person it is not strictly speaking a biography just being a day in the life sort of thing. Since we have all school vacation to search for a book I told her I would do some digging but all I'm finding is a few about William Bradford. Anyone know of anything? It is really too bad if we can't find one since for once the costume will be easy since I'm putting a Pilgrim coif into her Christmas stocking and she has already gathered bits and pieces to make up a Pilgrim costume since she is just waiting for a call to come and work as an interpreter. Thanks for any leads no matter how old and out of print, living in Massachusetts I should be able to get my hands on anything that is out there. Julie Rines jrines@ocln.org ------------------------------ From: BOGART Debra <dbogart@ci.springfield.or.us> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org, Rfelkner@SLOMA.state.oh.us Subject: science fiction vs. fantasy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:03:49 CST If your library has both a science fiction and a fantasy collection and/or designation, who is responsible for designating the genre? Does your cataloger make the decision? Rely stricktly on CIP? Do you have written policy? We currently have only a science fiction category, which some fantasy is added to and some is not. We are lobbying for a separate fantasy section, especially with the burgeoning number of fantasy titles. I'd appreciate any input to make it easier, thank you in advance, Debra Bogart dbogart@ci.springfield.or.us Springfield Public Library ------------------------------ From: Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com> To: Pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Michigan or Alaska? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:04:07 CST Thanks to all the folks who stepped forward to help with the book of states I'm working on. I'm down to two states--Alaska and Michigan. If you are a librarian living in either state and are interested in helping, please contact me (not the list). You will be asked to write about 150 words on why your state became a state. You'll have about 3 weeks to research and write. If you are interested, I will send details and a sample. The book will be published in 2005 and you will receive two copies of the book. ===== Jeanette Larson Youth Services Manager Austin Public Library P.O. Box 2287 Austin, TX 78768-2287 512-974-7405 larsonlibrary@yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Patricia Hull" <phull@slco.lib.ut.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Native americans Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:04:24 CST We have a patron who is native american and does programs at elementary schools. He shows up dressed in"normal"clothes and the principals always asks. Oh where are your Indian clothes? And he responds "these are my Indian clothes." The principal then says, "No we want you to wear typical native american clothing for the kids." He replies. " I am wearing what a typical native American wears."Then he says "Oh do you want me to wear my ceremonial robes or the clothing native americans wore hundreds of years ago? "It generallly works and the principals realize rather sheepishly how stereotypical they were being. Almost every school responds the same way. Sad. ------------------------------ From: Susan Wizinsky <swizinsk@gfn.org> To: Karen Brown <BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us> Subject: Re: Teen I & R MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:04:40 CST Hi, As a former YA Librarian and Certified Information and Referral Specialist, I tip my hat to you for your efforts! Regarding your comment "How do you deal with people who want their point of view available to counteract Planned Parenthood and PFLAG, for example?" A good I&R resource file will have information on agencies with various philosophies and viewpoints. A good I&R provider will provide information on a variety of agencies and their services. It is ultimately up to the patron/client/customer to determine which agency suits them. By providing the I&R regarding ALL resources available in the community, we have done our job. If you haven't done so, you might wish to contanct the Alliance for Information and Referral Systems at www.airs.org for more ideas. Best Wishes, Susan On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Karen Brown wrote: > We have interest in improving our I & R service for teens. Yet we > foresee many challenges. Limited space, controversial issues, time, > etc. I would like to hear from people who have a more proactive I & R > service for teens. Perhaps you could let me know - Do you display > posters and brochures? How do you deal with people who want their point > of view availble to counteract Planned Parenthood and PFLAG, for > example? Other tips? Thanks. > > > > Karen Brown > brownk@ci.monterey.ca.us > Youth Services Manager > Monterey Public Library > 625 Pacific Street > Monterey, CA 93940 > 831-646-3744 > -- Susan E. Wizinsky, M.S.L.S., C.I.R.S. Children's Librarian Genesee District Library Grand Blanc-McFarlen Branch 515 Perry Road Grand Blanc, Michigan 48439 810-694-5310 ------------------------------ From: TEACHINGTALES@aol.com To: jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us, pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Promoting folktales Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:04:54 CST In a message dated 12/20/2003 1:51:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, jhuston@snap.lib.ca.us writes: > the 398 section isn't moving much despite the > number of wonderful books that are there. What creative ideas do you all > have for promoting folktales in your libraries? Hi Juli, As a professional storyteller I adore the 398.2 section. Whenever I am hired to storytell at a library or school I always mention this section. Last year when I told for a reading incentive program, two of the folktales I shared were just published (adaptations) in brand new books. At the end of the program I mentioned this and suggested that if the children liked the stories they could find the books in their school library. Afterwards the librarian stopped me and said, "What did you tell those children? They are all coming in and asking for these books?" She was delighted of course. I have also performed for school literacy nights where I was stationed in the library and worked with the librarian to find appropriate books to display. I even told a folktale once that had just been published into a gorgeous children's book. I contacted the author for permission to tell and purchased the book, which he signed. I displayed it during the storytelling shows and told the children and families that I was donating the book for their library. More incentive to go back and read! In addition, I host a Storytelling Club at our local elementary school for third and fourth graders. It is a year long program which teaches the children how to become a storyteller in their own right. One of our "field trips" is to the library where they look for books with stories they might like to tell. Also, as part of the program I work with the computer lab teacher offering website which compliment the storytelling program. This year I gave her a website to put in favorite places on the computer. The site is from Enoch Pratt Libraries and hosts a number of storytellers in streaming video. The children have the opportunity to listen to different folktales and telling styles, and of course, it we talk about how they can find different versions of those tales in their library. Here is the site. List All e-stories - e-stories Project - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, Maryland http://www.epfl.net/kids/estories/ESTORIES_archive_list.cfm I will use anything at my disposal, including stories on line, to get the children interested in reading. While listening to stories on the computer may not seem relevant it really does stir their interests and they want to find other adaptations of tales they like or even other stories in the same genre in the library. My suggestion to you would be to find a storyteller in your area who will work with you on creating a storytelling program which will promote the 398.2 section. I do it all the time. Yes, the library will have to pay the performer but it can be turned into a "Family Folklore and Fable Day." There is so much you can to promote literacy via storytelling. I hope these suggestions have helped. Happy Holidays, Karen Karen Chace Professional Storyteller/Arts Web Researcher ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1294 *************************
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