Re: LM_NET Digest - 30 Oct 1995 - Special issue

[Luann Moro <lmoro@CORTLAND.CNYRIC.ORG>]

>There are 13 messages totalling 303 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics in this special issue:
>
>  1. TECH: finding smut on the net
>  2. REF, MIDDLE, SEC, TARGET: Route 12 curriculum ideas
>  3. GEN: block scheduling
>  4. Crutcher
>  5. Newsletter software
>  6. The Giver
>  7. Texas EXCET exam
>  8. LM_NET Digest - 30 Oct 1995 - Special issue
>  9. Surfwatch and librarianship
> 10. TECH: IBM VS. MAC
> 11. LM_NET Digest - 24 Oct 1995 - Special issue
> 12. School bus/Ill.
> 13. SEC: library design
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:24:43 -0500
>From:    "Karen G. Schneider" <kschneid@UMICH.EDU>
>Subject: TECH: finding smut on the net
>
>Re James Mong's post--I think you are now getting a good education.  ;-)
>Maybe we could do a program at ALA--"Porn on the net: the LM_NET
>collection."  (o.k. o.k... maybe NOT!)
>
>I would add that the original "net porn," and what is possibly most
>popular, is on Usenet and is text-based.  Believe it or not, folks tell
>elaborate and highly public sexual stories on the 'net, I think mostly
>fantasies.  And tell them, and tell them, and tell them...  (Again, the
>appeal eludes me... but then my idea of a turn-on is a sale table at a
>bookstore!!)  If you set your newsreader to not access these groups, you'd
>eliminate a lot of problems.
>
>If you are going to use filtering software--and frankly, I know some of you
>will, for various reasons--why not look at and assess the different types,
>rather than turn your librarianship over to the Surfwatch company?  You
>really don't want some company makign your collection decisions for you, do
>you?  At least give it a thought.  I bet you don't like it when folks try
>to tell you what BOOKS to buy...
>
>And  I am still not convinced that stumbling across raunch every now and
>then is going to harm a child.  (If so, why do people even buy tvs, blocks
>or not?  I understand Julie Andrews bared her breasts on 60 Minutes not too
>long ago. )
>
>Karen
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:35:20 -0500
>From:    "Karen G. Schneider" <kschneid@UMICH.EDU>
>Subject: REF, MIDDLE, SEC, TARGET: Route 12 curriculum ideas
>
>(Surfwatch aside)  I'm working on a project with two other library students
>to design an electronic resource that will parallel curriculum designed
>around a particular road--specifically, Route 12 (Detroit to Aberdeen).
>Our role is to help the (nonexistent) teacher identify and gather useful
>and interesting data related to Route 12, which could include historical
>informatoin, traffic data, ecological info, weather, climate,
>demographics--you name it.  We are using this data for a software tool (an
>informatoin-visualization device) that will allow kids to visually "travel"
>Route 12 (with their mice) and when they zoom in on an area find out more
>about it.
>
>The data sets are arbitrary--we're pretending they were submitted by
>teachers.  The question then becomes, what kind of data would you expect to
>see on this curriculum?  I am going to the state library to dig up some
>historical data, and have been scouting around for more.
>
>Also, the team hasn't narrowed the school ranges yet, but I've emphasized
>to them that we need to--and of course some kinds of data, and different
>types of presentations, are more appropriate to some ages than others.
>
>If we get enough ideas, I'll post a HIT.
>
>TIA,
>
>Karen <kschneid@umich.edu>
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:48:46 CDT
>From:    Polly Orr <ORRP@BIS_PS.DSC.K12.AR.US>
>Subject: GEN: block scheduling
>
>Last Thursday I requested sample block schedules and information
>on how they work for those schools that have implemented them.  So
>far the only replies I have received are from others who need the
>same type of information.
>
>Surely there are some LM_NETTERS who are using block scheldules
>and would be willing to help those of us who are thinking of going this
>route.  There is so much of the terminology I have been hearing that I
>don't have the faintest idea of what is meant.  For example,
>embedding an A/B schedule into the 4 X 4 schedule, 4 X 4 with a
>90/10 split, 4 block, 8 block, etc.  Could someone, anyone explain
>some of these to me?
>
>Polly Orr, LMS
>Bismarck High School
>Rt. 1, Box 208
>Bismarck, AR  71929
>(Tel) 501-865-4888
>(Fax) 501-865-3626
>(email) Orrp@BIS_PS.DSC.K12.AR.US
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:39:33 -0600
>From:    MISSNERM@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
>Subject: Re: Crutcher
>
>I was fortunate enought to be able to hear Chris Crutcher at the
>Wisconsin Library Association conference last Wednesday.  I am impressed
>with the poignency of his writing.  I had wondered if he was abused and
>that the stoires he writes reflect his life.  Acutally he is or was a
>thrapist for young adults and his stoires come from his practice.  He
>said that his childhood and adolescence were normal.  He was not a good
>student and would "borrow" from his older brother.  He also would make up
>book reports using names fromthe Boise phone directory for authors names.
>The college he picked was not terribly selective and he went there
>because of the color of the catalog.
>
>I use his material in booktalks and just read two  shorts stories from
>_Athletic Shorts_ to my homeroon (ninth graders).  When talking about age
>appropriateness I believe that Crutchers work could have easily been
>marketed as adult literature--anyway, some of it.   I think that it is
>the reader who should be considered not so much the age of the person or
>the grade!!!
>
>Michele
>
>Michele Missner
>Appleton High School West
>610 N. Badger
>Appleton, wi 54914
>voice (414) 832-4162 (business)
>            730-0768 (home)
>fax (414) 832-6239
>
>Bitnet   -  missnerm@oshkoshw
>Internet -  missnerm@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:41:05 -0400
>From:    CVANDEEST@LACA.OHIO.GOV
>Subject: Re: Newsletter software
>
>Joy,
>
>Microsoft Works 4.0 for the Mac has a basic newsletter layout under Works
>Wizard.
>Carol Van Deest
>Johnstown HS    Johnstown, OH 43031
>cvandeest@laca.ohio.gov
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:52:05 CDT
>From:    Jan Jamison <JAMISONJ@OLA.AFSC.K12.AR.US>
>Subject: The Giver
>
>I have had a complaint about Lois Lowry's book "The Giver".  I'm in a
>K-6 elementary library.  One of the parents brought the book, after
>reading it, and explained that it was too graphic and violent.  Has
>anyone else had trouble with this one?  Thanks for your answers.
>Jan Jamison
>Ola, Arkansas
>jamisonj@ola.afsc.k12.ar.us
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:12:05 -0600
>From:    Betty Louise Copeland <bcope@TENET.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Texas EXCET exam
>
>Anne--just addressed some of the same issues with Betty Hamilton.  I took
>the ExCet in '89 and felt that the questions were not very subject
>specific and very hypothetical, such as your example--would depend on
>school philosophies, principals' policies and a variety of other things.
>I had hoped the test had been updated.  I feel that anyone with good
>"test-taking" skills and a good general education could have walked in
>and taken that test and passed it.
>
>Betty Copeland
>St. Michael's Academy
>Austin, Texas
>bcope@tenet.edu
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:25:01 -0600
>From:    Leigh Ann Jones <jlaj@TENET.EDU>
>Subject: Re: LM_NET Digest - 30 Oct 1995 - Special issue
>
>Mr. Harmon raised some excellent points concerning restricted shelves.
>Last year during a censorship controversy at our school, the school board
>wanted to set up such a shelf.  ALA's Intellectual Freedom Office was
>very clear that any sort of labeling or restriction was a violation of
>intellectual freedom.  Requiring parental permission prevents free access
>to minors.
>
>By setting up a restricted shelf, are you possibly paving the way for a
>larger problem?  What happens if there is a book you fail to put on the
>restricted shelf that offends a parent?  What if a volunteer or an aide
>checks out a book to a child without parent permission?  What if a
>student reads a friend's book without parent permission?  Let's leave
>what students read to their parents and we can spend our time selecting,
>not censoring books.
>
>Leigh Ann Jones
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:03:34 -0600
>From:    Kim Vawter <kvawter@ESU3.ESU3.K12.NE.US>
>Subject: Re: Surfwatch and librarianship
>
>On the subject of Librarianship: As you gather information about the
>clientele that we serve, give them the correct road map to find current
>information that they need you will receive professional appreciation. If
>you try to second guess your clients and give them information that you
>think they need because it worked last year, last semester, last week (and
>soon you will be digging into stuff that you used years ago-)you will find
>that the appreciation and "value" that you want for your "profession"
>will start to diminish.As librarians/Media specialosts we must continue
>to reinvent ourselves to keep pace with the times-We can't waste time
>waiting for someone to value "Librarianship"-We make ourselves valuable
>or we make ourselves obsolete.On the subject of "finding time" with small
>children, husbands, home to run etc. I agree that we can't do everything
>perfect-Don't try. Do set up a support system for your family. As far as
>technology goes-you will never "keep up" Just learn about one thing that
>really
>interests you and rely on others (LM_NET ?) to know something about other
>techie things-share,share,share! Also take a friend along to learn a new
>thing and debrief afterwards, usually something sticks to your brain and
>other things stick to the other persons brain-.Two heads are better than
>one when learning a complicated program.
>Hope that this helps-If not use "delete" key. Kim Vawter Omaha, Nebraska
>kvawter@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:46:01 -0600
>From:    Sanda Babington <sbabingt@ISBE.STATE.IL.US>
>Subject: TECH: IBM VS. MAC
>
>We are working on a technology plan and would like to know whether MACs
>or IBMs are most used at the high school level.
>
>Sandra Babington
>Media Specialist
>sbabingt@isbe.state.il.us
>I'm a LMS in a Jr/Sr High of about 1300 students in NYS and we have 2 Mac
>labs and one IBM.  We are definitely leaning towaard MAC and have been
>from the start.
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>
>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:50:06 -0500
>From:    Sherry Wilk <Tri1Mama@AOL.COM>
>Subject: Re: LM_NET Digest - 24 Oct 1995 - Special issue
>
>Does your school have a written policy within its collection development
>policy for handling challenged materials?  It should, and it should provide a
>formal complaint form for the parent to fill out as part of the due process
>procedure.  The formation of an ad hoc committee, composed of library media
>staff, administrators, teachers from each grade level and parents should meet
>to discuss the challenged material and help you come to a decision about
>whether the book should remain on the shelves.  The books should remain in
>circulation during this time.  This is all based on ALA Bill of Rights. Let
>me know what happens.
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:23:41 -0500
>From:    Sandra Griffith <griffith@FREENET.SCRI.FSU.EDU>
>Subject: School bus/Ill.
>
>I have been thinking about the terrible school bus/train wreck these past
>few days. On the news today they said the busses are so noisy the driver
>can't hear.
>Here in Florida or at least this county, when busses approach the train
>track the bus stopps, the students must be totally silent, the driver
>opens the bus door and looks both ways down the track. Then she/he drives
>across the track. I was amazed the first time I rode on a bus to a field
>trip, when we got to the tracks there was total silence. I hope this kind
>of terrible tragedy will not happen again.
>If your busses do not stop BEFORE they come to the track and look both
>ways with the door OPEN maybe you can get them to do this in your county.
>This should never happen again...
>
>Sandy in Florida
>
>griffith@freenet.fsu.edu
>SandraG627@aol.com
>
>Bell*Bourne*Blankenship*Brogan*Burdette*Bush*Callison*Clendenin
>Cornwell*Cooper*Craig*Curry*Dean*Elkins*Edwards*Garten*Griffith
>Girt*Haines*Hooper*Jefferson*Knapp*Lambert*Lawson*LeFever*Meadows
>Mullens*Newland*Pauley*Perdue*Plants*Plunkett[TX]*Ridgeway*Riggs
>Shumate*Sommerville*Turley*Wattson*Wells*Welch*Woodrum*Wolfe
>All in WV, VA, MD, NJ, MA, PA, OH
>
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>Date:    Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:31:28 -0800
>From:    Linda Brake - EHS <lbrake@EGREEN.EGREEN.WEDNET.EDU>
>Subject: SEC: library design
>
>My district is planning a new high school and the media center design calls
>for media and career counseling to share the same area and the same classroom
>teaching space.  Are there any other high schools out there who have this
>arrangement?  If so, please respond directly to my e-mail and let me know
>the pros and cons of this design. TIA.
>Linda Brake
>lbrake@egreen.wednet.edu
>Evergreen High School
>Vancouver, Washington
>
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>End of LM_NET Digest - 30 Oct 1995 - Special issue
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Luann Moro, Library Media Spec.Cortland Jr./Sr.High
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