Noteworthy

Toni's Books
Toni Buzzeo, Library Media Specialist at Longfellow School in Portland, announces the publication of her first children's book, The Sea Chest (Dial Books for Young Readers, September 2002) (ages 5-up). Set on a fictional midcoast Maine island and based on the Maine Hendricks Head Light baby-in-the-sea chest legend, the book, illustrated in oils by Minnesota artist Mary GrandPré who has also illustrated the popular Harry Potter novels, is both Maine historical fiction and a touching adoption story. SLJ awarded the book a star in its August 2002 issue.
Buzzeo's second children's book, Dawdle Duckling (Dial Books for Young Readers, January 2003) (ages 2-6) is the story of a small duckling who swims to the beat of his own drummer--until danger threatens. The book, illustrated in pastels by California illustrator Margaret Spengler, is a cheerful reassuring tale of youthful rebellion and parental protection--with an exciting surprise ending.
She is also the author of four professional books: Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers: Real Space and Virtual Links, co-authored with Jane Kurtz (Libraries Unlimited 1999), 35 Best Books For Teaching U.S. Regions, co-authored with Jane Kurtz (Scholastic Professional 2002), Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-6 (Linworth, March 2002), and Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for 7-12 (Linworth, September 2002).
Read more about Toni Buzzeo on her website at www.tonibuzzeo.com

The Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club
is sponsoring a new library in the Philippines and is looking for good, used books to help start the library's collection. Needed are: hardcover books in English or Spanish that may include novels, textbooks, reference materials, how-to books, cookbooks, or books on tape. Magazines such as Audubon, Smithsonian, and the like are also needed. Books may be delivered to Spiller's at 34 Lexington Avenue, Lewiston. Or, donors may call Gerald Martel at 786-4760 for pickup.

Better salaries?
The ALA Special Presidential Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity invites you to subscribe to its new, open discussion list, MONEYTALKS. Discussion addresses topics relating to better salaries and pay equity and provides a forum for library workers to share their experiences. The list is monitored by members of the Better Salaries and Pay Equity Task Force, and ideas presented will be considered for follow-up by the Task Force. Participants are also encouraged to plan their own activities, author Council proposals, etc. You do not need to be an ALA member to post and read.
Sign up for MONEYTALKS by sending an email to: subscribe-moneytalks@ala.org and then putting your name as the subject of the message.

The Library of Congress' new "Ask a Librarian" online reference service
allows users to send questions and receive answers by e-mail. Visitors can ask questions about serial and government publications, prints and photographs, local history and genealogy, humanities and social sciences, science and technology, and business. These categories may expand in near future.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib

Maine Public Radio
Make sure public radio listeners know about your library events. List them on the new : Maine Public Radio arts calendar

The Maine Libraries Support Staff Association, a section of the Maine Library Association, seeks a person to represent the Association on the Executive Council. Meetings are held in Augusta every other month, the first or second Friday morning, at the offices of the Maine Municipal Association.
Please consider this unique opportunity to represent an important segment of the Maine library community. For more information, please contact Peggi Loveless, Library Assistant, Acquisitions and Cataloging, Bennett D. Katz Library, University of Maine at Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME 04330.

Open Book Players
will be developing grant applications to cover the costs of bringing our Readers Theatre Ensemble to libraries and schools in Northern and Eastern Maine. Normally the costs of meals. lodging, and transportation would be out of reach of most small rural libraries. If our applications efforts bear fruit, we could come to your library next summer at little or no cost. If you are located in either of these regions and would like to be kept abreast of developments, please email as at mailto: openbook@adelphia.net.

Library Programs & News

Waterville Public Library
*** Thursday, September 12 at 7 P.M. - Rhea Cote Robbins will be the guest speaker for Les Bavards. Cote Robbins will talk about challenges that she met in writing her story, Wednesday's Child, about her life in Waterville's south end (in English) and will conduct a mini workshop on oral history telling.
*** Thursday, October 3 at 7 P.M. - Stephen Wessler, Director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, and author of Sticks and Stones will lead a discussion on 9/11 and some of its results and implications. The Center's website it located at: www.cphv.usm.maine.edu. This program is sponsored and funded by the Maine Humanities Council.
*** Saturday, October 19 at 11 A.M. - Miss Maine 2002, Rachel Wadsworth will participate in Story Time in the Children's Room.
*** Thursday, October 24 at 7 P.M. - Jennifer Armstrong, musician and storyteller, will bagpipe, fiddle, banjo and guitar as she interweaves songs tunes, and tales. Her website is located at: www.jenniferarmstrong.com
*** Tuesday, November 5 at 7 P.M. - Melissa Huston, Development Co-ordinater of the Maine Adoption Placement Service, will speak on domestic and international adoption and the work of her organization in facilitating it. MAPS website is: www.mapsadopt.org

Ludden Memorial Library, Dixfield
is very happy and proud to have on display the art work of a local citizen, Alice Barnett, at the Ludden Memorial Library. She is one of 600 people from 50 countries, to be chosen to display her unique art style at the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea to be held in Florence, Italy in December of 2003. Alice sees rainbows in dirt and rock. She finds brilliant color in nature. Her work involves collecting, sorting crushing and mounting the rocks and minerals and letting the world see what she sees. Her art work is an illusion of the landscape. It really is the landscape.

Winslow Public Library
*** Tuesday, September 3, 6:30 p.m. - Book Discussion: "Drinking the Rain," by Alix Kates Shulman. Shulman is the author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen," among other works. In "Drinking the Rain" she relates her experiences and thoughts after retreating - without modern conveniences - to a cabin on an island off the coast of Maine. For adults and high school students.
*** Wednesday, September 18, 6:30 p.m. - Poetry Reading. We are finding a growing number of people in our communities who are interested in poetry. Poets are invited to come read their poems, old and new, or just come and listen.
*** Monday, September 23 through Saturday, September 28 - Banned Books Week. The Library will sponsor a contest for students in grades 3-12, who will be asked to read a banned book and write a short review (a list of banned books and a three-question review sheet are available at the library's main desk). Reviews will be displayed. All participants' names will be placed in a drawing to win a Banned Books T-shirt. The drawing is based solely on participation, not on writing ability, and will be held on September 28. Students need not be present to win.
*** The library has just joined the Green Library Project, providing a convenient location for businesses and families to drop off what would otherwise be discarded inkjet and laser cartridges and toners for recycling. We will act as a collection site and send contributed materials to a distribution center to receive a small stipend for each cartridge and toner that is recycled. Acceptable items include various sizes of the following brands: HP, Canon, Lexmark, Sharp and Lexmark. Cartridges and toners may be dropped off at patrons' convenience anytime during regular library hours.

The Mantor Library, UMF and Farmington Public Library
Celebrate Your Freedom the Read: Read a Banned Book!
The libraries invite one and all to join us in celebrating Banned Books Week, September 21-28! On Monday, September 23, Maine author and lawyer Woody Hanstein will kick off the week with his presentation entitled "AVERT YOUR EYES: Literature, Censorship and the Law." Thursday evening, September 26, local musicians will perform a concert of "controversial" songs - ones that have been censored or banned. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit the Web site at www.umf.maine.edu/~library/bbw/ .

Boothbay Public Library
*** September's Artist of the Month at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library will feature acrylic artist Denise Gordon. A diverse range of eye-catching acrylic paintings informed by her world travels and love of change. This exhibit will be open to the public during regular business hours through the month of September.
*** The dedicated and enormously successful Friends of the Library, in celebration of another banner year in sales, will hold their annual Volunteer Appreciation Tea in the Great Room at the Library on Monday Sept. 9 from 2:00-4:00.
*** Poet Marie Boroff will present a reading of her works on Sunday September 22 at 2:00 PM. Boroff was the first woman to teach in the English Department in the Faculty OF Arts and Sceinces at Yale. Previous publications include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study, and Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Her collection of poems, Stars and Other Signs, is currently in process of publication at Yale University Press.

Eastern Maine Technical College
Our former part-time assistant, Gary Atwood, has left to pursue his master's degree in library science at Simmons College.
We have a new half-time assistant, Jeffrey Cook, who will be working evenings and weekends as of the start of fall semester, Aug. 26, 2002.

Jackson Memorial Library
Our children's room has been made brighter by the addition of two new beanbag chairs, beautiful new puppets and a bright new rug. The annual book sale was a great success as always. Many children enjoyed the summer reading program, "Reading is out of this world". The library made the decision to hire a temporary circulation aid. Mariah Cunningham was hired for the position and worked through the summer.

Ellsworth Public Library
***The City Council of Ellsworth has honoured Charlene Clemons for 10 years and JoAnn Botta for 5 years of service to the Public Library.
***The summer reading program TALES and GALES has concluded with a total of 1,394 (one thousand three hundred and ninety four) books read. They are most grateful to the Friends of the Library for their support of this and all programs.
***Display case for Sept. = Fall Gardening Tips - Univ of ME Cooperative Extension
***Art Show = Watercolors of Schoodic area, Arcadia National Park, by Mary Aro
***Sept 24 2:30 p.m. - Dr Frank P Gilley will present a slide show and talk on "Hunting and Fishing in Maine". His book Reflections of Salmon Flies and Gun Powder will be available for pruchase.

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Book Sales

For those of you who make your summer plans around going to book sales, here is a list of sales of books and other items in Maine Libraries.

Berwick Public Library
Annual Farmers Market - Saturday, September 7 from 8-12
Lots of locally grown produce will be available. That sale will be combined with a yard sale, a book sale, and more. We'll sell anything but our souls. The sale will take place at the intersection of Route 9 and Route 236 in Berwick, Maine. For additional information, call the library at 698-5737.

Carrabassett Valley Public Library
Used Book Sale during Sugarloaf's Homecoming Weekend October during Columbus Weekend.
This sale involves the collaboration of the Carrabassett Valley Public Library and the Sugarloaf Area Christian Ministry (SACM), and will benefit our library and the Salem Economic Ministry Food Bank.For more info, contact Rev. Pam & Earle Morse, SACM, 237-2304.

Resources of the Month

Do you have some print resources or web sites that you've found especially usefulness or unique? Something you found to do an excellent job answering some questions or books that were really good. Send in a few of your favorites. Thanks!

Website for Peter Sis
This site may be of interest to school or youth services librarians. It includes games, bio and is informative. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Associates proudly announces ... the Web site for Peter Sis, an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. To experience the multi-layered art of Peter Sís, please view an interactive Flash excerpt for his books at www.petersis.com.
This resource was submitted by Peggy Becksvoort, LMS

Free Film Archives Online
Currently, over 1000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films are available for free download or streaming from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org/movies/bytitle.html . This stock footage covers a wide variety of subjects, including, for example, an elementary school "duck and cover" instructional film from 1951 called Atomic Alert and the famous A is for Atom informational film from 1953. Use of this stock footage is unrestricted, with two exceptions: films may not be sold and the site must be credited.
This resource was submitted by Stephen LaRochelle, Thomas College library director.

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Calendar of Events - Education/Training/Workshops

NELA Annual Conference - New England's Libraries: Our Heritage, Our Future
10/20/2002 - 10/22/2002, Sturbridge, MA
Come join your colleagues in Sturbridge for practical educational sessions and opportunities for networking with your peers from across New England. Get more information about the upcoming conference (including program descriptions and registration forms) at the NELA Conference Home Page.

New England Round Table of Children's Librarians (NERTCL)
is offering a full schedule of children's and young adult programs at the NELA Annual Conference.
Workshops include practical wisdom from the field from three Young Adult Librarians; innovative ways to reach homeschoolers; a follow-up on last year's popular puppetry program; enhancing storytelling with song; how three children's librarians turned their love of children's literature into published children's books; planning successful author/illustrator visits at your library; and matching just the right books to your storytime audiences.
Innovative author Virginia Euwer Wolff will be speaking at NERTCL's Monday, Oct. 21, luncheon and signing her books that afternoon. Her titles include The Mozart Season, Bat 6, and Make Lemonade and its National Book Award-winning sequel, True Believer. Her fine ear for voice and her willingness to experiment with form has produced some of the most exciting literature for children and young adults in recent years. She will be speaking at NERTCL's Monday, Oct. 21, luncheon and signing her books that afternoon.

Association of College and Research Libraries - New England Chapter and NELA's Academic Librarians Section
are co-sponsoring several programs and discussion groups at the NELA Annual Conference.
They include: Library Skills Instruction for First-Year Students, Care and Feeding of Student Workers, Migrating to a New Library Management System, Virtual Reference: Real-Time, Real-Life and NEASC and the Academic Library.

New England Chapter of the Catholic Library Association Fall Conference
Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at the College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Worcester, MA. 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Herman Tavani of Rivier College, speaking on "Cyber-Ethics"
To register, or for more information, contact: Patty Schweitzer, c/o St Mary's Elementary School, 35 Bartlett Street, Westfield, MA 01085. 413-568-4482 home or 413-568-2388 work pes4482@yahoo.com

CONTINUING EDUCATION WEBSITES

Uuniversity of Maine at Augusta Library and Information Technology
http://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/pages/spclibinfo.html

American Library Association Conferences
http://www.ala.org/events

Association of College and Research Libraries - New England Chapter
Calendar Of Conferences & Continuing Education
http://www.acrlnec.org/calendar.html

New England Library Association (NELA)
http://www.nelib.org/

Nelinet, Inc. Library Conferences and Meetings
http://www.nelinet.net/conf.htm

New England and Environs Preservation Calendar
http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/mblc/ldev/preservation_calendar.shtml

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/courses/index.html

Southern Connecticut State University, Library Science and Information Technology
http://www.southernct.edu/grad/programs/ILS/

University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/conedu1.htm

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Job Opportunities

Listings of jobs in Maine from the Maine State Library http://www.state.me.us/msl/jobjar.htm

Job Finding Aids from the New England Library Association http://www.nelib.org/jobaids.asp

The New England Jobline from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Contains academic, school, public, special and archives professional position listings from all over New England http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/resources/jobline.html

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Library Electronic Mailing Lists

MELIBS-L. This list supports communication among library staff and others concerned with delivering library services in Maine. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe melibs-l [your_firstname] [your_lastname] (example: Thomas Jefferson would send this message: subscribe melibs-l Thomas Jefferson) to this address: listserv@maine.edu.
For general tips, "Netiquette" and specific listserv commands including how to search the MELIBS archives look at the MELIBS-L and MEFIND-L Listserves website http://www.state.me.us/msl/mgmelibs.htm

ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org. To unsubscribe, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org.
ALAWON archives at: http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. Visit their Web site at http://www.alawash.org.

Library-Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials is a compilation of electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials that are of interest to library professionals and staff. Visit the website at http://liblists.wrlc.org/home.htm. Enough lists to subscribe to and do nothing but read e-mail all day long!

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