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Nav % LIBRARY NEWS *96 Rainy Day Fund Campaign You can help make the sun shine on a rainy day by contributing to this year's Memorial Library Foundation's annual Rainy Day Fund campaign. The Foundation's role, and the goal of this fund raising campaign, is to continue to help our library maintain its standard of excellence into the future. The projects we aim to support can only be funded over and above the existing operating grant provided by the taxpayers through the Municipality of West Vancouver. Our priority projects this year include: - PC and accessories to provide access to the Internet and Freenet; - Electronic service offering full text articles on CD- ROMfrom hundreds of periodicals; - Refurbishing of the Elizabeth Musto Community Meeting Room. Please give generously to your library and help provide for these projects arui our Endowment Fund. And, please support your library by purchasing one of our Rainy Day umbrellas ... new styles and colours available at the Registration Desk. Thank you for your support... David H. MacDonald, Chairman Memorial Library Foundation of West Vancouver REFERENCE SERVICES For those of you Vidshing a breakdown of the costs of dental work, our up-to-date version of the Fee Guide for Dental Treatment Services^ published by the B.C. Federation of Dental Societies, has just arrived. Everything from polishings, scrapings and fillings to caps, extractions and root canals is given with details on the type of tooth or situation to be operated on. It has been confirmed that the next highest mountain in the world to Everest is K2. However, it is rarely asked where this name came from. According to Asiaweek, it is so named because it was the second peak to be measured in the "Karakoram” range. K2 is located in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir on the disputed border with China. Mountaineers consider this 8,611 meter (28,250 ft.) mountain to be more difficult to climb than Mount Everest. Its summit was first reached by an Italian expedition on July 31, 1954. It seems that in today's world terms and phrases are being coined every few seconds. We often see a variety of items on the display shelves at check-out counters in almost every type of store these days. They are meant to entice the waiting consumer to "buy, buy, buy.” Such areas are now being descriptively referred to as waitbusters, or less commonly as shelftalkers. WEST YANCOUVEB MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Madne Ddve, West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1J8 Tel: (604) 92S-7400 Ubcaiy Hour: (604) 925-7401 Fax: (604) 925-5933 Modem Accem Catalogue: 925-7409 ADULT SERVICES IN THE GALLERY ... "Up Country” ... paintings by Wanda Griffiths will be on display in the Library, April 29 to May 26,1996. Wanda has lived in Ontario and the Arctic and has travelled extensively. She has resided in West Vancouver for many years but prefers to paint country scenes where the simple things in life are still found. Her works are in private collections and are sold in the U.S. and in Canada. Reception, artist in attendance, April 29, 7:30 p.m. Some paintings are for sale. 8:30 MUSIC AT THE LIBRARY ... The third and last "music^al conversation” in this popular series presented by the Memorial Library Foundation of West Vancouver continues on May 8, featuring an Opera Outreach Program by the Vancouver Opera. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Peter J. Peters Meeting Room and will be preceded by refreshments at 10:00 a.m. Single advance tickets of $14.00 are available at the Fiction Information Desk or at the door, prior to the performance, if seating is available. For further information call Dorothy Naime at 922-6406. MAY ... bursting with blossoms ... the scent of garden and lawn ... the month beloved of poets and gardeners, a siren song for travellers. Whatever your garden or travel needs your library is the place to start. We offer a few suggestions... (394 STA) STAR, NANCY The International Guide To Tipping (797.1 WHI) WHITE, MICHAEL Floating Vacations: River. Lake And Ocean Adventures (910.202 ADV) Adventure Vacations: From Trekking In New Guinea To Swimming In Siberia