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JiWiUlY <96 LIBRARY NEWS The Best of Friends! The Friends of the Library are part of the fabric of this place. They helped establish it in 1950, they've helped us make it as attractive and efficient as we could over the years, and they've risen to the occasion when special situations or events required extra help. Numbering 105 to 130 each year, the group includes "silent supporters" as well as activists; all are welcome. Annual dues are $10, for which the member receives $5 worth of free library reserves, preview privileges at the library book sale, an entertaining monthly newsletter, and the opportunity to associate with some very interesting, pleasant and fun-loving individuals. Via activities such as casino nights and the annual book sale, our Friends have donated nearly $80,000 to Library causes in recent years, including $21,000 for the building expansion, $22,500for the new bookmobile and $9,200 for the soon to be published Dictionary of Art - a unique publication in 34 volumes we couldn't otherwise afford. To learn more about this dynamic group, pick up one of their brochures in the Library, phone 925-7410 for details, or think about attending one of their meetings - 4th Wednesday of the month, 7 p.m. in the Peters Room. After all, you can never have too many Friends! reference services Eureka! Indeed, this is the title given to a newly acquired 6-volume set of encyclopedias in the Reference Department. The text includes the discoveries and inventions that shaped today's world, including the people responsible for them. On a gloomier note, the Department has just acquired the much-publicized Report of the Gove Inquiry into Child Protection, a BC government commission of inquiry into 5-year-old Matthew Vaudreuil's death from abuse in 1992. WEST YANCOUVEE MEMORIAL LIBRARY 19S0 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1J8 Tel: (604) 925-7400 Library Houra: (604) 925-7401 Fa*; (604) 925-5933 Modem Acces Catalogue: 925-7409 Our language grows by leaps and bounds as the world wires itself into cyberspace. Nevertheless, the Internet has its aging features. For example: a cobweb site is a World Wide Web site that has not been updated for a long time, ultimately becoming a dead Web page. Aging and heavily-used computer keyboards with a disgusting buildup of dirt and grime are known as having keyboard plaque. If you wish to keep current with the new electronic jargon, you may wish to consult "Jargon Watch" in Wired, a computer magazine for the layperson wanting information without highfalutin jargon. ADULT SERVICES IN THE GALLERY ... "Themes and Variations," paintings in watercolour and oil by Brian Williams will be on display in the Library January 2 - 28,1996. Brian has been drawing and painting since his teens, greatly influenced in early youth by his father and grandfather. His subjects are mostly landscapes and still life images sketched at home and abroad. Reception, artist in attendance, January 2, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. All paintings are for sale. JANUARY ... start a NEW YEAR of awareness, discovery and enjoyment... a new interest in reading and a realisation of the wonderful resources your library has to offer ... open the pages of a book, select video or audio tapes, CD magazines and papers ... the selection is varied and wide. We offer a few suggestions. (004.6 MOO) MOORE, DINTY The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture A guide through the wired world by an author whose spiritual guide is Henry David Thoreau. (546.681 ALD) ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGH The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery Of The Buckvball The momentous discovery of the buckminsterflillerene, a prevously unknown form of carbon, and its amazing aftermath. (744.2048 MIL) MILLER, JUDITH & MARTIN Victorian Style How Victorian style can be adapted to contemporary interiors room by room. (808.882 OXF) SHERRIN, NED ed. The Oxford Dictionary Of Humorous Quotations An ideal collection by subject of humourous quips old and new.