CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARY

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Information at your fingertips

Read any good books in Ukrainian lately?
Maybe not. But thanks to our local libraries,
people all over Vancouver are absorbed by
bestsellers in a dozen different languages, from

Arabic to Urdu.

Five librames serve the
North Shore — one in North
Vancouver City, three
branches in North Van-
couver District, and the
West Vancouver Memorial
Library. All fine facilities in
their own right, they are part
of the Greater Vancouver
Library Federation (GVLF),
which was founded in 1975.

in practical terms, a vast
resource of some 2 million
volumes is now available to
every library card holder in
this area. And for good
measure, the GVLF has
access to another 2 million
books at UBC.

Long gone are the days of
small volunteer libraries
operating out of basements
and back rooms. Gone too is
the concept of a library as a
hushed and stuffy hothouse,
used only by would-be
academics, and the over-
ambitious. Today's libraries
are cheerful, inviting places
with a comfortable lived-in
look.

Dozens of services are
offered, some obvious,
others ‘very much less so.
Many people out there are
dependent on taped or
“talking” books, others on
books-on-wheels, others
again on large print books.

These are by now familiar
to most of us. So are the
interesting programmes and
activities offered by many

libraries, as well as their
special displays and
exhibitions.

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for example,
provides a cultural focus for
the community by
presenting concerts, poetry
readings and musical
programmes for children.

An unexpected feature of
library service available to
North Shore residents in-
cludes Lynn Valley's
collection of seed catalogues
and their sewing pattern
exchange. Enterprising —
and original — services to
our community.

And how many people are
aware of the incredible
reference resources which
are only a phone call or visit
away? North Shore libraries
contain enough reference
material to keep even the
most zealous researcher
happy for months.

Len Norris's delightfully
witty cartoon highlighting
the slogan: “It’s at your
library — check it out”
deserves more than a passing
glance. As any experienced
people-watcher will confirm
(and many delightful
specimens can be observed
perched among the books),
Norris’s detail is wickedly
funny — and at the same
time, not far off the mark.
The local library is literally
for all of us, however modest
or complex our
requirements.

“We ought to have a new
slogan: ‘Phone your hbrary
first,” according to Enid
Dearing, Chief Librarian of
North Vancouver District
Library. “We have a very

STORYTELLING IS but one of the countless services -s offered by libraries on the North Shere aud here at Seycove,
the children provide a rapt audience as Sarah Ellis, Children’s Librarian and Head of Children's Sexvices along with
Fran Ashdown, library assistant, take part. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

considerable reference
section just begging to be
used more often. We can
answer most questions from
our own resources. Failing
that, we can obtain in-
formation very quickly from
elsewhere.”

Family and historical
research are always popular.
If West Vancouver
Memorial Library isn't able
to provide answers from its
already extensive holdings,
then either the UBC Library
or The National Library.
Ottawa, can usually help.
Where a book is too valuable

to travel, photocopies | of
relevant passages will be
provided wherever possible.
Imagination is one of the
Most precious and_in-
destructible gifts with which
we are endowed.

Children instinctively
recognize this fact, and if
encouraged and given half a
chance, become great
library users. And a child-
like curiosity about the
world around us keeps many
of us young in spirit.

Research on any level is a

fascinating and absorbing
game - intnguing. mad-
dening and practically

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endless. You open one door
— and are tantalized by the
prospect of a dozen other
ahead.

So the next time you're
wondering when Napolicon
was born, or where words
like “filibuster” and “ken
speckle” came from, os how
a laser beam works — just
remember that night bere on
the North Shore, library staff
are more than cager, happy
and competent to provide
you with the answers. To
modify the GVLF slogan
shghtly — “It's at your North
Shore library - check tt oat.”

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YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY

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926-3291

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