pop. reading for teens in 1949?
Dates: 11/16/99,9:33 PM through 11/18/99,4:28 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: "Vicki Nesting" <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 11/16/99, 9:33 PM
TIA,
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Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
[removed]@bellsouth.net
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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@OPENGOVT.OPEN.ORG>
REC'D: 11/17/99, 3:22 PM
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org
>>> Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net> 11/16/99 07:06pm >>>
Hope you all can help with this one. Our library is celebrating its
50th anniversary next month. I've done a brochure with 50 years of
popular reading (adult fiction and nonfiction) taken from NYT bestseller
lists, our children's librarian is doing a display of what children were
reading 50 years ago, and now we're looking for what teens/young adults
were reading 50 years ago. Any idea where we can find this information?
TIA,
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Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
[removed]@bellsouth.net
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FROM: "Deborah Roy" <[removed]@ctlnet.com>
REC'D: 11/17/99, 3:52 PM
<A HREF="http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/readhis.html">http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/readhis.html</A>
This site lists Newbery winners and nominees pre-1960.
<A HREF="http://awardbooks.hypermart.net/n-1959.htm">http://awardbooks.hypermart.net/n-1959.htm</A>
This site is the kicker- it lets you search award winning children's/YA
books by publication year. I searched for those published 1900-1949 and
got a result of 222 different titles.
<A HREF="http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html">http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html</A>
Below is information on Margaret Edwards. I read her book, The Fair
Garden and the Swarm of Beasts, when I was working on my MLS. I don't
remember if it listed titles, but she does talk about the kinds of books
she chose for young adults at different time periods during her career.
Good luck, and let us know what you find out.
Deborah Roy
<[removed]@ctlnet.com>
Huntington City-Township Public Library
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Margaret Alexander Edwards
Margaret Alexander Edwards grew up on a West Texas farm and taught
school in Texas before she headed off to graduate school in New York
City. She took a job teaching in Towson, Maryland, and when she
happened to give a supervisor a piece of her mind, she was fired. This
turned out to be a blessing in disguise÷for her, for hundreds of
Baltimore teenagers she was about to serve, and for thousands of teenage
readers she would never meet. She became a young adult librarian at
Enoch Pratt Library. In her early days of service, she drove a horse
and wagon around the city streets, bringing books to readers.
Her book The Fair Garden and Swarm of Beasts÷published in 1969 and
updated in
1974÷is still in print. Her sound advice should be read by all
librarians who work with
young adults.
Margaret A. Edwards Awards
The award is named in honor of the late Margaret
A.Edwards, an
administrator of young adult programs at Enoch Pratt
Free Library in
Baltimore, MD for more than 30 years. Edwards brought
young adult
literature and library services to the attention of
the library profession.
She spent her professional life bringing books and
young adults
together, pioneering outreach services for teenagers
and establishing a
stringent training program designed especially for
librarians beginning
their work with adolescents.
Edwards is the author of The Fair Garden and the Swarm
of Beasts: The
Library and the Young Adult (Hawthorne, 1969; revised
and expanded
1974, o.p.) which explains her philosophy for turning
young adults into
readers. The publication remains a source of
inspiration and guidance for
librarians who work with young adults in school and
public libraries.
FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 4:28 PM
Maybe Janet Lambert? I think some of her books were originally published
back then.
----- Original Message -----
From: ROBIN BEERBOWER <[removed]@OPENGOVT.OPEN.ORG>
To: <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: pop. reading for teens in 1949? -Reply
> I don't know if they were being read in 1949, but in the very early 60s I
> was devouring Rosamund du Jardin, Anne Emery, and Mary Stolz, and they
> seemed a little dated then. :-)
>
> Robin Beerbower
> Salem (OR) Public Library
> [removed]@open.org
>
> >>> Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net> 11/16/99 07:06pm >>>
> Hope you all can help with this one. Our library is celebrating its
> 50th anniversary next month. I've done a brochure with 50 years of
> popular reading (adult fiction and nonfiction) taken from NYT bestseller
> lists, our children's librarian is doing a display of what children were
> reading 50 years ago, and now we're looking for what teens/young adults
> were reading 50 years ago. Any idea where we can find this information?
>
> TIA,
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
> West Bank Regional Library
> Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
> [removed]@bellsouth.net
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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