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Today's Topics:
1. Magazine recommendations (Marilyn Phillips)
2. RE: Looking for magazine selection criteria (Carrie Silberman)
3. Budget for Summer Programs (Bart Pisapia)
4. (a small) success story! re: game playing (Kapila Sankaran)
5. Book Fair Companies for Elementary schools (Joan Enriquez (ocln))
6. Stumper-inventor -solved! (lhharris@suffolk.lib.ny.us)
7. book stumpers answered (Marsha Parham)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:44:10 -0600
From: "Marilyn Phillips" <mphillips@ucpl.lib.mo.us>
Subject: [PY] Magazine recommendations
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Some very popular magazines at our library for boys are Game Pro, Nintendo
Power and Shonen Jump. Shonen Jump is an anime magazine so popular we have
to be "creative" in processing and displaying it. (First two
issues lasted
less than two weeks in our library).
Marilyn Phillips
University City Public Library
University City, Mo
Subject: [PY] Looking for magazine selection criteria
Hello all,
Does anyone out there have magazine selection criteria they would like
to
share with me?
I am re-evaluating our magazine collection and I am a
little overwhelmed by the choices and underwhelmed by our budget! I
want
to get the most bang for our buck (sound familiar?) and cover all our
bases...boys, girls, news, animals, young ones, older ones....
Currently we subscribe to Cobblestone, American Girl, Sports Ill. for
Kids, National Geographic Kids, Your Big Backyard, Cricket, Ranger Rick,
Ladybug, Click, Spider, Kids Discover, New Moon, & Cicada.
Any help is appreciated and I also welcome any faves or least faves!
Thank you, April
April Mazza
Youth Services
Wayland Public Library
(508) 358-2308
AMazza@minlib.net
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:19:42 -0500
From: Carrie Silberman <csilberman@nysoclib.org>
Subject: RE: [PY] Looking for magazine selection criteria
To: 'Jodi Wingler' <jwingler@dpl.lib.in.us>,
April Mazza
<AMazza@minlib.net>, MASSYAC <massyac@mlin.lib.ma.us>,
PUBYAC
<pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
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This month's School Library Journal has an extensive feature on children's
magazines for libraries. It is quite comprehensive.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:56:10 -0500
From: "Bart Pisapia" <PisapiaB@mail.co.leon.fl.us>
Subject: [PY] Budget for Summer Programs
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Greetings!
We are trying to get an increase in our budget for our summer
programs. It has become increasingly difficult to get
storytellers,
musicians, magicians etc... to do two performances for what we can
afford. I know most of you are in that same boat!
Tallahassee, Florida is a city of 160,000 people. There are about
250,000 people within Leon County. If you are a library with a similar
population base, or even a smaller base, we would be interested in
knowing what you spend for summer programing.
Thanks!
Bart Pisapia
Youth Services Librarian
LeRoy Collins Leon County Library
Tallahassee, Florida
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:22:08 -0500
From: "Kapila Sankaran" <ksankaran@springfieldpubliclibrary.com>
Subject: [PY] (a small) success story! re: game playing
To: <pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
Cc: "Bredlau, Janet" <jbredlau@springfieldpubliclibrary.com>
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Dear Pubyac,
Two days ago I posed a question about the use of computers in libraries by
teens/adults for game playing (or other activities).
We had our librarians' meeting this morning -- and we finally got down to
the topic of: "are we an arcade? a seniors' care center? a shopping portal?
a babysitter's club? what is this library??!"
Aside from my individual thanks to you who wrote back with your thoughts and
experiences, I must thank you again -- your responses varied greatly, and
they were all eye opening. Many of you talked about the fact that all ages
of patrons liked playing games, about how this is an ongoing situation that
changes over time, about how sometimes it's one way and then another, about
compensations for not allowing game playing, about how adults play
"games"
of their own that aren't monitored by staff (surfing, friendster, and any
other number of examples)...
What I found most useful in your responses were the different ways in which
you approached or interpreted the situation I described, comparing it with
the situation at your library -- I live in my head, so transcending my
limitations isn't easy :-), which is where your thoughts were invaluable.
Anyway -- finally at the meeting, somebody said, "well what do you think
Kapila?" So I told em -- The issue (here at our library) is not about
whether or not the library is an arcade; the issue is really, not about what
patrons are doing -- the issue, in my library, is primarily one of
behaviour.
I have had a sense in the past (though I've only been here 6 months) that
we've changed rules to avoid facing confronting unacceptable forms of
behaviour in the library -- and I think I was right. So, yes, either you do
spend your time monitoring what patrons are doing, or you spend your time
approaching patrons of any ages when they happen to be doing something that
does not flow with the others or with library policy. Between the two, I
choose the latter (which is harder, no doubt)!
Between myself and my very astute colleague Janet, I think we were able to
get the others at the table (director, adult ref. librarians) to see this
major distinction between behaviour and
what-is-or-isn't-valid-library-use-of-space-time-property-resources, and
decide which was more of a priority to focus on. Again, given the context
I'm in, I found these thoughts of yours very valuable.
We still have a long ways to go - but it really was a breakthrough.
For your help, I'm indebted!
Cheers,
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
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:46:19 -0500
From: "Joan Enriquez \(ocln\)" <joane@ocln.org>
Subject: [PY] Book Fair Companies for Elementary schools
To: <pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
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Hello,
I've been asked by a parent from our local school to recommend a company that
does book fairs for elementary schools. It seems that they have been dealing
with Scholastic but are dissatisfied for some reason.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Joan Enriquez
Kingston Public Library
Kingston, MA
joane@ocln.org
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:11:32 -0000
From: <lhharris@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: [PY] Stumper-inventor -solved!
To: <pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
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Thank you so much! You are all wonderful!
The answer to the stumper about the lazy boy who invents machines to do his work
(until a power outtage) is Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead by William Pene Du Bois.
We will ILL it for our patron. Special thanks to Franja Bryant, Diana
Norton, Jen
Marin, and Nancy Eames for their speedy recall!
Laurie Harrison
Riverhead FPL
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:54:13 -0500
From: Marsha Parham <parhamm@mail.spalding.public.lib.ga.us>
Subject: [PY] book stumpers answered
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Hi everyone:
Thank you all for answering so quickly:
The answer to my first stumper is CLANCY'S COAT by Eve Bunting.
The answer to my second stumper is IF ANYTHING EVER GOES WRONG AT THE ZOO
by Mary Jean Hendrick.
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My stumpers
1. It might be an Irish folktale because she remembers using it around St.
Patrick's Day.
It's about two old men who live next to each other. They are first
friends, then enemies, then friends again. She remembers the men becoming
friends again because of something birds do with a sweater.
2. A girl likes going to the zoo and invites the animals to her home.
The
zoo floods and the animals' keepers bring the animals to her house for
safekeeping.
Thank you again
Marsha
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M. Marsha Parham
Flint River Regional Library
800 Memorial Dr.
Griffin, GA 30223
(770) 412-4770
(770) 412-4771 (fax)
parhamm@mail.spalding.public.lib.ga.us
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