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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1349
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Librarian for a day... by Christina Johnson <marionthelibrarian@yahoo.com> 2) Looking for a book by JoAnne Dearin <dearin@noblenet.org> 3) gaming magazine by "Karen Brown" <BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us> 4) Persian New Year Storytime by "Agnes Gorgon" <agorgon@whistlerlibrary.ca> 5) Theme Kits - justification by "Brenda Evans" <evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us> 6) Bibliotherapy to Comfort PreS Who Lost Clothes/Toys in Fire by "Brenda Evans" <evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us> 7) SRP - Mazes or Labyrinths? by Sue Jones <sjones@ci.pleasanton.ca.us> 8) stumper solved in nick of time by larnett@tulsalibrary.org 9) parent/child bookclubs by Chris Reid <christiner@picnet.org> 10) Stumper: picturebook about octopuses by "Stacey Irish-Keffer" <Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com> 11) STUMPER--Underwater family by "Suzi Robinson" <csr1121@bellsouth.net> 12) Stumper: magazine reviews? by "Fredda Williams" <fwilliams@knoxlib.org> 13) RE: Volunteer - Teens by "Stacey Irish-Keffer" <Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com> 14) truant kids & notifying police by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com> 15) Jonathan Scofield Series Freedom Fighters by "Victoria Jaksic" <vjaksic@kenosha.lib.wi.us> 16) Storytime rugs--keeping them clean? by "Lisa Crandall" <crandalll@cadl.org> 17) 2004 Thumbs Up! Finalists - Michigan Library Association Teen Ser by Charli Osborne <Cosborne@oxford.lib.mi.us> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christina Johnson <marionthelibrarian@yahoo.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Librarian for a day... Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:14:24 CST I'm glad to have another idea that I can possibly use in promoting my own local library. Maybe run a contest for the kids; they could help me set up for a couple programs during the summer maybe? One less 100 lb table for me to move! Chrissy Johnson Lebanon Public Library ------------------------------ From: JoAnne Dearin <dearin@noblenet.org> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Looking for a book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:14:41 CST Hi A co-worker (and also my neighbor) is looking for a book that her brother-in-law remembers when he was a child. Now he is pushing 60 so the book is probably over 55 years old. All we have to go by is that it is about a penquin named Richard (his name is Richard) and that he lives on an iceberg. We know it is NOT Mr. Popper's Penguins - any other ideas? Thanks in advance. JoAnne -- JoAnne Dearin, Children's Librarian Peabody Institute Library, Danvers Massachusetts dearin@noblenet.org North of Boston Library Exchange ------------------------------ From: "Karen Brown" <BrownK@ci.monterey.ca.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: gaming magazine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:14:51 CST I am sorry that GamePro has gone out of print. Now I want to replace it. I would like a magazine that covers all different kinds of games, and, if not geared toward children, has a smaller number of scantily clad women. Does anyone have any suggestions? Karen Brown brownk@ci.monterey.ca.us Youth Services Manager Monterey Public Library 625 Pacific Street Monterey, CA 93940 831-646-3744 ------------------------------ From: "Agnes Gorgon" <agorgon@whistlerlibrary.ca> To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" Subject: Persian New Year Storytime MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:04 CST Hello everybody, I need your help yet again. I am organizing a program for the Persian New Year, Nowruz [Noroz, Norooz, etc], and am looking for story, rhyme and song ideas. If anyone would like to contribute, I would appreciate it very much. Thank you, Agnes :) Agnes Gorgon Librarian, Whistler Public Library 4329 Main Street Whistler BC V0N 1B4 Tel: 604-932-5564 Email: agorgon@whistlerlibrary.ca ------------------------------ From: "Brenda Evans" <evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Theme Kits - justification MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:13 CST Hi, My director has asked me to come up with quotes to justify our incorporation of literacy and theme kits in our library. Could you please tell me the response of the daycares, home school parents, and the Headstart groups to this program. Thank you. Brenda Evans, Children's Librarian Madison-Jefferson County Public Library 420 West Main Street Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744 evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us ------------------------------ From: "Brenda Evans" <evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Bibliotherapy to Comfort PreS Who Lost Clothes/Toys in Fire MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:22 CST Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to everyone who sent suggestions for helping the 5-year old who lost everything in the fire. Almost everyone suggested A CHAIR FOR MY MOTHER by Vera Williams. Other suggestions included: Tikvah Means Hope by Patricia Polacco A little Excitement by Marc Harshman Fire Diary by Lily Rosenblatt - this is for someone a little older The Christmas we moved to the barn" by Alexandra Day Christmas Cobwebs by Odds Bodkins. Fat Chance Thanksgiving One Lucky Girl by George Ella Lyon Smoky Night by Eve Bunting It would be wonderful if you ( or some organization or the library staff?)could have a "book drive" or just gather a few books for that little girl. Any act of kindness after what that family has gone through would be much appreciated, I'm sure. Brenda Evans, Children's Librarian Madison-Jefferson County Public Library 420 West Main Street Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744 evans@madison-jeffco.lib.in.us ------------------------------ From: Sue Jones <sjones@ci.pleasanton.ca.us> To: "'PUBYAC@prairienet.org'" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: SRP - Mazes or Labyrinths? Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:31 CST Hello friends, We're revamping our SRP this year from being Monopoly-themed ("Otteropoly", etc.) to one involving mazes and labyrinths, tentatively entitled "Maze Mania". We're even kicking around an idea about making the children's room into a maze (as if it isn't anyway to newcomers) and utilizing selected middle-schoolers to act as "Maze Masters". If anyone out there has prototypes for maze-like games, favorite websites or ideas for decor to suggest, we'd love to hear from you! You're always just a wonderful resource. Thanks in advance! Sue Jones Pleasanton Library, CA sjones@ci.pleasanton.ca.us <mailto:sjones@ci.pleasanton.ca.us> (925) 931-3400 x 23 ------------------------------ From: larnett@tulsalibrary.org To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: stumper solved in nick of time MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:40 CST Just wanted to express our thanks to Joy Oliver at the Seattle Public Library for answering our poetry stumper. We needed the author of "Ruth" (who was trying to pull her tooth) and "At the Zoo" (Who looked at Who?) for a young customer participating in a speech contest. Joy promptly informed us they were both written by Jeff Moss and could be found in his book "The Butterfly Jar". She also shared the info that, believe it or not, Amazon's full text searching is often a successful method for poetry stumpers. Thought we should pass that along. Children's Staff, Tulsa City County Library ------------------------------ From: Chris Reid <christiner@picnet.org> To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: parent/child bookclubs Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:15:50 CST Hi Everyone: We are looking into have a parent/child bookclub for ages 9-12 in the fall (it was the spring but got moved; whew :-)). The plan is to meet weekly. I would appreciate hearing from others who have run this type of club before - how often you met, books you used, activities etc. Quite often I read about many programs on pubyac that have a lot of crafts and food. Our budget is quite limited, so I have to keep that in mind. I would also like to hear about ideas that didn't work so I don't fall into the same trap. You can reply directly to me and I can compile the information if others are interested. Thanks in advance, Chris Reid Library Technician (children) christiner@picnet.org <mailto:christiner@picnet.org> Petticoat Creek Library Pickering, Ontario Canada ------------------------------ From: "Stacey Irish-Keffer" <Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper: picturebook about octopuses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:00 CST Here is a really good stumper. I don't have a lot of detail, so I am eager to see what you come up with. A college-age young man is looking for a book he read as a child, in the early 1980s, that featured animals hiding in unusual places. He remembers octopuses and something hiding in a mailbox. The artwork was very detailed and there may not have been a lot of words on the pages (or there could have been, he was not sure). The only book I found was Barnard Waber's I Was All Thumbs, which I will show him even though I don't think it is the right book. Please send me your best suggestions. Thanks in advance, Stacey Irish-Keffer Denton Public Library 502 Oakland Denton, Texas 76201 940.349.7738 Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com ------------------------------ From: "Suzi Robinson" <csr1121@bellsouth.net> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: STUMPER--Underwater family Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:11 CST I have a patron who is looking for a book that he read when he was a = boy 35 years ago. After explaining that the size of the book and the = color of the cover weren't really going to help, he told me what he = remembered. The story centers on a boy who's parents are marine biologists. The = family lives in an egg-shaped dome under the ocean. One level of the = house is above the water level and there is a dock or pier that either = connects to the shore or has a boat. The walls of the house are clear. = The boy has befriended one or more dolphins. In the course of the = story, "bad guys" of some desciption kidnap the boy's parents and he has = has some part in their rescue (patron thinks). The book has simple pen = and ink illustrations and is on the same general level as the Hardy Boys = books. Does sound familiar to anyone? Thanks -- Suzanne Robinson Branch Manager East Nashville Branch Nashville Public Library 206 Gallatin Ave. Nashville, TN 37206 suzanne.robinson@nashville.gov ------------------------------ From: "Fredda Williams" <fwilliams@knoxlib.org> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: Stumper: magazine reviews? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:21 CST Does anyone have a good source for reviews of children's & YA magazines? Our latest print resource is 10 years out of date. In particular, I've had a school librarian ask for reviews of magazines suitable for middle school children. I found the Patrick Jones site (www.connectingya.com) and she likes it, but she needs more. I've been to ALA's site, and YALSA and I didn't find anything that fits - of course those sites aren't particularly easy to use so I might have missed something. If anyone has any good sources for recommendations, please send them directly to me. I don't really need the names of individual magazines, although those are nice. What the school librarian really needs are recommendations to back up whatever selections she makes. Thanks in advance, Fredda -- Fredda Williams Children's Services Manager Knox County Public Library System 500 West Church Ave. Knoxville, TN 37902 (865) 215-8761 fwilliams@knoxlib.org ------------------------------ From: "Stacey Irish-Keffer" <Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com> To: <jennifersalt@hotmail.com>,<pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: RE: Volunteer - Teens Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:33 CST >From what I've read and heard, it's important to give teens meaningful work when they voluinteer. No matter how badly we need our shelving done, shelving is not very meaningful. The most success we have had for teens as been having them assist with the Summer Reading Club. We give them an orientation and explanation of how the club works. Then, we schedule them to work at the SRC desk for blocks of time (usually no more than two hours at a time, twice a week). They come in, sign in, and work the desk for their assigned times. They get to talk to kids about the reading club, encourage young readers, give out prizes, and help the young ones put their game pieces up on the bulltein boards. The teens really like this a lot. They like being helpful, working directly with people, and feeling like they are doing something worthwhile. Having teens run our desk has freed up a lot of staff time and allows us to do other projects without slowing or endangering the reading club. I was very nervous about having teens do this. I envisioned all sorts of problems from teens giving out misinformation or being unreliable to parents getting mad that teens were doing the librarian's job. Instead, I saw teens who really wanted to do a good job working hard. (Don't get me wrong, we had a few less than stellar volunteers, but having a good screening process will catch most of these early). And, I saw parents who were pleased to see their children interacting with the teens, even the "scary"-looking teens with multiple piercing and funky hair. This has been so successful that we plan to continue it for the third year in a row. I highly recommend it. Hope this helps, Stacey Irish-Keffer Denton Public Library 502 Oakland Denton, Texas 76201 940.349.7738 Stacey.Irish-Keffer@cityofdenton.com ------------------------------ From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: truant kids & notifying police MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:49 CST today two police officers came into the library looking for two kids that come here frequently. they gave very detailed descriptions and asked us to contact them if they came in. sure enough about 45 minutes later they came in so i called the police department to notify them and they came to get them. i'm pretty sure this was a truancy issue and the parents' had reported them missing. it didn't occur to me until *afterward* that maybe i should not have "cooperated" so easily. did i violate the kids' rights to confidentiality by notifying the police that they were here? i wouldn't have called the police unless they had come in looking for them even though i know we get truant kids in here all the time. do any of you have a policy in which you are *not* supposed to call in a case like this and would the rules change if the kids in question had been abducted or otherwise endangered? ~j. ===== ~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 ------------------------------ From: "Victoria Jaksic" <vjaksic@kenosha.lib.wi.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Jonathan Scofield Series Freedom Fighters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:17:01 CST Help! A patron insists she saw one of Jonathan Scofield's Freedom = Fighter Series books in a used bookstore with the number 22 on it. = After searching several places, we were only able to see that there were = 15 books in the series. She insists, and bear with me on this, that it = was "the same color" as his other titles in the series, it was a = "paperback this thick", and had the same striped logo at the bottom with = the red white and blue colors on it. She insists she isn't crazy, and = that it does exist. So, to give her the benefit of my doubt, my next = thought is to see whether or not Freedom Fighters series was picked up = by another author and continued under a different name? I noticed = Scofield was a pseudonym. I checked the two other names associated with = him to no avail. Has anyone read these books? I checked Google and = kept running into the 15 titles. These books were from the early 80's = and are Out Of Print now. Any help on this would be appreciated. = Please respond directly to me at vjaksic@kenosha.lib.wi.us =20 Thanks! ------------------------------ From: "Lisa Crandall" <crandalll@cadl.org> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Storytime rugs--keeping them clean? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:17:11 CST Hi, Happy Thursday everyone! My question today is about some storytime rugs we have. We bought these beautiful brightly colored rugs last November for our storytimes, and right now, we haul them in and out of storage every Tuesday when we have storytime. (We don't have a storytime room or space). While it is a pain to haul these rugs in an out every week, we do it because we don't want them to get dirty. However, they have occasionally been left out if we got really busy and forgot them or something similar happened. The problem is that people, kids especially, love them--and want them to be out all the time. I admit, it would be nice not to have to haul them around every week. But I know they are going to get dirty if I leave them out. A fellow staff member here also pointed out that they wouldn't remain "special" if they were out all the time. A good point. Do any of you have any ideas as to ways to keep special rugs clean? Any stain/dirt defenders we can apply? We have the custodian vacuum them every week (or try to), but that's not always enough. Please reply directly to me with any hints/thoughts/ideas. Thanks a bunch! Lisa Crandall Youth Services Librarian Holt-Delhi Library 2078 Aurelius Road Holt, MI 48842 (517) 694-9351 crandalll@cadl.org ------------------------------ From: Charli Osborne <Cosborne@oxford.lib.mi.us> To: yalsa-bk@ala.org, "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: 2004 Thumbs Up! Finalists - Michigan Library Association Teen Ser MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:17:24 CST Please excuse cross-posting. We want this information out there! The Teen Services Division of the Michigan Library Association is proud to announce the 20 finalists for the 2004 Thumbs Up! Award. This award is presented annually to the best young adult book published in the U.S.A. during the previous year. Teens in Michigan, aged 12 to 18, can cast a vote for their favorite title by email or mail. The winner of that vote will then be awarded one "first place" vote when the committee decides the winner on June 3rd. If the winner of the teen vote does not win the Thumbs Up! Award it becomes an automatic Honor Book. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/tsd/index.html. The ballot should be up soon! The Top 20 for 2004 (in order by author) Alt Ed - Catherine Atkins A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau Keesha's House - Helen Frost Dead Girls Don't Write Letters - Gail Giles Green Angel - Alice Hoffman Olive's Ocean - Kevin Henkes The First Part Last - Angela Johnson Buddha Boy - Kathe Koja The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Acceleration - Graham McNamee An American Plague - Jim Murphy Firebirds - Sharyn November, editor East - Edith Pattou Pirates - Celia Rees Vampire High - Douglas Rees Full Tilt - Neal Shusterman Claws - Will Weaver Zigzag - Ellen Wittlinger The Sword of the Rightful King - Jane Yolen How would you cast your vote? Charli Chair, 2004 Thumbs Up! Committee Charli Osborne, MLIS Head, Teen Services Oxford Public Library (248) 628-3034 (248) 969-9492 fax cosborne@oxford.lib.mi.us Imagine if instead of cryptic, geeky text strings, your computer produced error messages in haiku... It's a file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1349 *************************
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