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still in demand, with several being called back for loan each week even as new ones are sent to the storage facility. We replaced the carpeting in the main hall of the Library during a hectic Easter weekend but found that it took many weeks to replace the building's shake roof. We signed a contract with local historian Sally Carswell to write a history of the Memorial Library. The work is to be published this year in time for our 40th anniversary on Remembrance Day. A busy year, with another in prospect, forward to sharing it with you. We look REFERENCE DEPARTMENT * • As the dust from your New Year's resolutions settles, come and visit the Reference Department. We have guides to a variety of educational, vocational and travel programs that can help you plan an exciting future. • Elderhostel Catalog • The Guide to Cooking Schools •Job Futures: An Occupational Outlook to 1995 •Peterson's Learning Vacations: the all-season guide to educational travel. And don't forget the Consumer Guides, they can help you buy not only the cheapest but the best at those January sales. ADULT SERVICES IN THE GALLERY ... "TRAVEL IMAGES" - photographs in colour and black and white by North Shore artist Steve Tobus will be on display in the gallery through the month of January. All photographs are for sale. PEOPLE'S LAW SCHOOL presents a seminar on RRSPs ... a consumer guide. The instructor will discuss such topics as ... who can qualify for an RRSP, what are the contribution limits, types of plans available, the benefits and risks of various plans, the tax consequences of purchases and withdrawals, how to choose the best plan for you and much more. Monday, January 22, 1990 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Seminar Room REMINDERS: DISCUSSION GROUPS will continue in the New Year: Tuesdays, 10 a.m - 12 noon - general discussion, varied topics. Thursdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon - world affairs with Mr. Gordon Raglin, Dates to be announced. AUDIO VISUAL materials are available in the Library ... a good selection of "how to" and classic films on VIDEO ... borrowing time is three days and limit is three per card. BOOKS ON CASSETTE ... three per card and borrowing time is two weeks. Many language tapes, self hypnosis and business motivation. ROBBIE BURNS CELEBRATION --- haggis, bagpipes, Scottish dancing, poetry reading and sing-along. Drop in and enjoy the fun Saturday, January 20th, at 2 p.m. 'Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius.' Aretino If you have always promised yourself to "read the classics" but never find time ... this January ... a NEW YEAR ... a NEW DECADE ... resolve to borrow one a month from your Library's collection of richly bound editions. Remember the enjoyment of holding the cool leather covers, the smell of the beautifully sewn crisp gilt-edged pages and the romance, drama and adventure to be found therein. We offer a few suggestions. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni The Decameron (FIC BOC) Considered one of the hundred greatest books of all time and repudiated by the author in his later years as immoral, the stories of fairy- tale and fable-like quality are told within ten days by ten different storytellers. The setting is during the plague in 1348 in Florence although the stories are European and Oriental in analogy. A wonderful fireside read! COMPACT DISCS three per card for one week