LISNews: Librarian News

A 13-year-old Ozark, Missouri youth has written a letter to the editor of his local paper about censorship.

\"I am just fed up with this \"Potter\" controversy. While I strongly disagree with forbidding children from reading them, I have to agree that parents have the right to tell their child not to read them.\" -- Read More

In case your library is looking for some Christmas decorating
ideas, how about a Book Tree? This one
was built by the Teen Advisory Board at the Coshocton Public
Library and entered in the community\'s Festival of Trees.
Here\'s how to build
a
book tree of your own.

The fine folks at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County have set up Storyplace.org, a very cool site devoted to story time at the library.

StoryPlace, an interactive web site, came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. In the summer of 1999, a team of Children\'s Librarians and Specialists got together with in-house web developers to begin development on this exciting site. In the Spring of 2000, StoryPlace premiered with it\'s first section, the Pre-School Library, completed.

StoryPlace currently consists of two libraries, the Preschool Library and Elementary Library with new activities and themes being added each month

Sarah Jean writes \"Progressive Librarian
,
Issue number 17, Summer 2000

The mystery and the act: towards a YA human sexuality collection by Teri Weesner

\"Young people viewing internet porn have an information need that can be addressed by youth services librarians and library collections. To ignore this information need is just as inaccurate and inappropriate as young people gleaning their information from internet pornography and cybersex chat.\" \"