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Page 6, May 3, 1973, PHOENIXLibraries Aren't Just For Grown UpsVaried Programs ForKids At Local Branchesyour community,%u201d Ms. Kalkhoff asserts.Each of the four branch libraries in South Brooklyn has some kind of program for children. Activities include class visits, picture book hours, storytelling, films, and Guess What, which may be anything from playing games to creative dramatics.Class visits to libraries must be arranged in advance by the teacher and librarian at an hour convenient to both. A typical visit will consist of a book talk (a picture book hour if the children are small) and a brief orientation to the library, after which each child receives his own library card. Afterwards, the children are free to browse among the books and select some for borrowing.In spite of TV, old-fashioned storytelling is still very popular with children. %u201cIt is a personal art, calling for dramatic talent,%u201d says Phyllis Lu, children%u2019s librarian at the Carroll Park Library. %u201cAnd you have to like the story youself. A child will remember a good story for years and years.%u201d Ms. Lu spins her tales in front of a dark wooden fireplace in the children%u2019s room. The setting is reminiscent of an earlier era. Most popular fare: fairy tales and ghost stories.Films are popular with children, too, although attendance at thisBY BARBARA ZELENKOTwo small boys approach the desk. The older one speaks abruptly, fingering a button on his jacket.%u201cYou got any hockey books around here?%u201d%u201cHockey%u2014let%u2019s see.%u201d The softvoice young woman rises from her chair to guide him to the sports shelf in one corner of the sunlit room.It is late afternoon at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Although school is over for the day, the place is almost deserted, except for the boys and two girls scribbling away at a homework assignment at a nearby table.The children%u2019s library is on the second floor. %u201c Not everyone realizes it%u2019s here,%u201d explains Anne Kalkhoff, who recently took over as children%u2019s librarian, after stints at branches in Rugby and Bushwick. %u201cThis branch is known for its special business library on the ground floor level.%u201dShe plans an extensive list of visits to local schools and calls on people in the area to change the situation. %u201cIt%u2019s important to knowPHOENIX Photo by Francois DumaineA %u201cWhat%u2019s New%u201d session at the Prospect Branch Library takes place every week. Last week it was painting, and the kids were up to their elbows in art.Sitting at the head of a cluttered table spread with paint-spattered newspapers, Ms. Lu was helping a group of children transform old egg cartons into orange-and-yellow caterpillars. %u201cHere Guess What is usually arts and crafts,%u201d explains Ms. Lu. %u201cWe work on things the children can bring from home.%u201d%u201cYes, we made potato prints once,%u201d exclaims one girl, fastening a pipe cleaner to her caterpillar. %u201cAnd Japanese lanterns.%u201dIt is a small group, and Ms. Lu knows every one by name. The children are friendly and unselfconscious in the presence of a stranger%u2014eager to be helpful.%u201cI come to the library every time I need a new book,%u201d volunteers a small boy. %u201cSometimes I can read two books in one day, if they%u2019re easy.%u201dWhat kind of books are children reading today?%u201cThe children are great riddlelovers,%u2019%u2019 says Susan Schultz, children%u2019s librarian at the Pacific branch, which recently moved from Fourth Ave. to the first floor of the Y. %u201cAnd of course sports%u2014 you can never have enough baseball.%u201d%u201cThey go for whatever is on TV,%u201d says Ms. Lu. %u201c Monsters and science fiction are big. Unless they get a specific assignment from school, they rarely choose history.%u201dLike their elders, children are fascinated with the occult%u2014ghosts, witches, anything supernatural. Of course, there are always the onesubject fanatics%u2014the child who is hooked on owls or the boy who cannot read enough about frogs. %u201cPretty soon, he%u2019s read everything on the shelf and then you%u2019re in trouble,%u201d chuckles Ms. Lu.The child who outgrows the children%u2019s collection is free to take books out of the adult collection. There is open access to every book on the shelves, a policy of the Brooklyn Public Library as a whole.Will children%u2019s library services%u00ab w;U l U! ! L U U J l IU UComrr\\<53/0fVS & R <2 * f o r o t io i\\ sw in d o w s - p a n * l9 %u2014 la m p sM Lyons 766-6781in the area be affected by the recent cutback in federal funds? %u201cOne area affected is the neighborhood storytellers,%u201d says Marguerite Dodson, coordinator of Children%u2019s Services at Brooklyn Public Library. %u201cWe hire part-time storytellers to introduce books to day care and Head Start Children in the Carroll Park, Prospect and Red Hook areas. The children (aged 3 to 5) are too young to come to the libraries themselves, so we try to bring the library to them. This was financed by the Library Services and Construction Act.%u201dGas StationHeld At BayThe Board of Standards and Appeals has again postponed decision on an application for approval of construction of an eight-pump Mobil automotive service station, to replace the smaller existing station, on the eastern side of Third Ave. between Atlantic Ave. and Pacific St. A hearing was scheduled for April 25, but the attorney representing the property owner was unable to attend and so it is now planned for Wed., May 9.Several community residents and organizations have testified, at two previous hearings, against a request made by the executors of the estate of Murray Frischling to rezone the area as a C 6-1 commercial district. Among the groups opposing the new station are the Boerum Hill Assoc., the Brooklyn YWCA, the Boerum Hill Nursery School, the parents of P.S. 38 school children, and the Citizens for a Better N.Y.Mrs. Martha Rush, a Boerum Hill resident, explained the reasons why she and others are opposing the station. %u201c Approximately 3000 children attend schools that are within a five block radius of the site and many travel by themselves. Cars turning into the station create a hazardous situation now and a bigger station would mean more cars and increased danger,%u201d she stated. %u201cThe site borders on a residential area that would suffer under increasedair pnllutinn frnrrt ancnlino fnmocand even more traffic on already crowded Pacific St.,%u201d she added.Mrs. Rush stressed the importance ol having as many people as possible at the May 8 hearing >nd she urged all parents and nterested community residents to neet at the Board of standards and \\ppeals, Ninth Floor, 80 LafayetteSi Ma nh at tan at 10 a mprogram varies with the weather. A lot of films shown are based on famous children%u2019s books: %u201cThe Red Balloon,%u201d %u201cThe Five Chinese Brothers%u201d and %u201cWhen Knights Were Bold.%u201d%u201cWe call our program for six to 12 year olds %u2018Guess What%u2019 because it%u2019s supposed to be a surprise,%u201d explains Helen Papelle, children%u2019s librarian at the Prospect branch. %u201cBut I usually post a sign a couple of days in advance. %u201cWe do puppet shows, poetry workshops, creative dramatics%u2014anything I can come up with.%u201dChildren%u2019s programs are offered at all four local branches of the Brooklyn Publio Library and include films and crafts, as well as reading. 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