ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, Cataloging Services
Since pockets are no longer be attached to materials sent in for processing, please remember to stamp or label all materials (especially books) with your library’s name. We still need to keep track of who owns the materials sent in -- a please process slip can sometimes get lost after it arrives here.
If you have any questions, please call me.
DIANA McFARLAND, Youth Services Coordinator
Animals Should Definitely Not Borrow Library Books
As students head back to school, and groups start visiting the library, a
whole new round of education about the treatment of library books begins.
Here’s a website featured on School Library Journal’s website (slj.reviewsnews.com)
that provides some gentle humor along the way. You can print it out and read
it aloud.
Walter Minkel -- 8/27/2002
BreakingNews > Sites of the Week
From SLJ September 2002
sbpaul.home.mindspring.com/animals/animals.html
Here’s a takeoff on Ron and Judi Barrett’s Animals Should Definitely NOT Wear Clothing (Atheneum, 1970). Created by Georgia media specialist Shelley Paul, the site shows elementary school students how to take proper care of their library books. If animals checked out library books, says Paul, then a squid might get ink on the pages, or a goat might gobble them up. Paul recommends taking the images, which she created using KidPix software, and mounting them on PowerPoint slides.
Picture Book Suggestion
Taback, Simms. This is the House that Jack Built.
Putnam. 2002. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-399-23488-8.
This witty rendition of the cumulative tale is retold and illustrated by 2003 NYS Summer Reading Program illustrator Simms Taback. It was published in August and I haven’t read it yet, but the reviews are glowing and sounds like a natural for storytimes.
9-11 Anniversary Websites for Teens
Teen People Magazine’s website recommends several online resources for
marking the one year anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11,
2001.
 | http://www.teenpeople.com/teenpeople/2002/getpers/topic/083002_resources.html |
| You can bookmark this site, or point interested teens to it. It is a way of using the Internet to connect with others, as well as providing resources to address fears, concerns, and hope for the future. |
From the MHLS Bulletin
The Mid-Hudson Library reports:
The 7th Annual Woodstock Library Fair was held July 27th. They held a new
event this year – the Printed Discus game, in which contestants see how far
they can toss a Reader’s Digest condensed book volume. It should satisfy
readers who “would like to pitch these abridgements into the far-flung edges
of the library world,” said Janice King, Fair Chairwoman.
MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator
I am very excited to announce that our first batch of Books on CD is here and processed!
Below is a list of titles that are available for your patrons to request. I will be sending this list out to you which you can display at your circ desk, or wherever it will get seen, so your Book on Tape regulars will take notice!
Bitterroot, James Lee Burke
Ava's Man, Rick Bragg
Billy Boy, Edwin Shrake
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Wheat Field, Steve Thayer
Edge of Danger, Jack Higgins
Midnight Runner,Jack Higgins
The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal, Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat who Went Up the Creek, Lilian Jackson Braun
Kara, The Lonely Falcon, Joseph Girzone
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Art of War, Sunzi