“4 broadcast’ “media. ‘The total”
yolume: of sales: for the
largest. credit. card: ‘company
- topped. $3. billion. ean

This included: debts: owed to
retailers, trust - companies,
banks,

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your. all-purpose credit ‘card.
The general-use credit cards

finance ‘companies, |
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The wide variety of credit S
cards available -can. be.
divided into two categories--
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‘YOUNG BOOKWORMS enloy. the. many amenities of of the | Children’s

By OLGA RUSKIN

. provinces wil also be. receiv-

me ing copies. |

“West. ‘Vancouver - ‘school ae
children: - are appearing | ine

what’s probably going to be a
Canadian best-seller. 7

The ‘book produced under
the. direction. of ‘Angela
Thacker, West Van ‘District
Librarian, and published by

the: Ministry of Education is
“Sources and Re- -

called

sources: A -Handbook for.

Teacher-Librarians ‘in B.C.”’-

Already 3,000 copies of the:
6,000 books: published. have
been ~ distributed in B.C.

They've been. sent to every:
school ‘librarian, principal,

district superintendent,.
secretary-treasurer and
‘school board chairman. Pro-

vincial librarians.and school

library.co-ordinators in other

- ‘ jee

sl

cal- information of assistance

to teacher librarians. mo

“But what: ‘makes it so.

uniquely different from other
- library handbooks is the fact -
that there are’ Canadian ‘not .
U.S. references which lead °
librarians to. Canadian re-_
sources and. B. C." 's. in parti-

‘cular. ' ee

‘Thacker, « a past: president”

of the B.C.. School Librar-
_ians’ Association, - chaired
“the committee of 45 teacher-
librarians including © seven

‘if

“The handbook - contains, ao
Ministry: of Education posi- °
‘tion. statement -related te.
_ Staffing, space, budget and —
., collections as well ‘as practi- ,
. making.

— AC

jest Van : school. notes a

from. West: ‘and North Van:
‘couver. Before starting the -
- handbook Thacker canvassed"
“other.” ‘provinces asking - for
their copies but found there»
-was nothing else like it in the.
country. This: handbook has »

taken about two years in the

in ‘the
‘tare those of

“The photgraphs
-handbook

‘students in our own schools’’.

explains: Thacker and were
taken by the - District's
audio-visual. aide.

A ‘book | in Canada is
considered to’ ‘ber. a ‘best-

‘seller when it- reaches the
6,000. mark. It looks as if this

comprehensive manual is on
‘its way to becoming ‘‘a, best-
seller’
field.

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“some: charge’ a fee before

Even more ‘overw helming - issuing:a-card.

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