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December ’96 LIBRARY NEWS ^ a Memorial Library Staff Board of Trustees Friends of the Library Board of Directors, Memorial Library Foundation Library Volunteers R I' R R N V. R S R K V' I C: R S Curtis Grambo, Family Brown, Eagle Feather â€" where do these names come from? To help the tenderfoot country- music audience, the Reference Department has kindly purchased the newly published Encyclopedia of Canadian Country Music by Rick Jackson. This is a well-illustrated, alphabetically arranged volume providing a brief biography of the performers followed by a discography for each entry. The study of word histories can reveal just how very parochial the birthing of many words has been. One such example is the word villain. The privileged classes of feudal society held the peasant or serf in such low esteem that they regarded those who worked on the estate farms or villas (headquarters of the farms or country estates- derives village) as villanus or “low, common or vulgar person,” with its sense developing pejoratively into a “wicked person.” The library has a fine collection of etymology and word-history books. Try some other pejorative words of interest such as fan (as in sports, filmstar, etc.), denigrate, gyp, easel, etc. On the other hand, we have attached negative meanings to words that were once more praiseworthy - for example, the word catmibal did not originally mean “eater of human flesh.” In fact, the Canibales were the original inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola (today’s Haiti & Dominican Republic) and the term became distorted through Christopher Columbus’ misrendering to be “flesh eating subjects of the Great Khan of China.” A I) U L T S R K V' I IN THE GALLERY “A View Of Your Own” paintings in watercolour and pen and ink bv Elaine Sills and “Joumeyings Into Water Coloui s” by Gina Charles will be on display in the Library December 2 - January 5. Most of Elaine Sills paintings have been commissions for people as gifts to hang in their personal collection. She works in watercolour pen and ink with occasional use of acrylics or gouache pastels. Sktitches and photos taken on location, old photos and suggestions from clients are all used as inspiration. This will be Gina Charles’ first e xhibition and she explains her works in order of appearance as “breakthroughs in the journey” to becoming an artist. Reception, artists in attendance December 2, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Most paintings are for salt. CHILLY DECEMBER ... the festive season arrives... some last minute suggestions for Christmas books and a sampling of newly arrived VIDEOS for at home entertainment between festivities. (MYS DEX) DEXTER, COLIN Death Is Now Mv Neighbour Inspector Morse’s latest wherein his first name may be revealed!? (MYS HAR) HARDING, PAUL The Assassin’s Riddle A Brother Athelstan mystery set in medieval Oxford. (641.59 CAN) MORRISON, NANCY Bruno: Love In The Kitchen Nancy Morrison’s loving recollections of her partner of 25 years. (791.4572 STA) KRAUSS, LA WRENCE M. The Physics Of Star Trek With a foreword bv Stephen Hawking, this is physics for Sci Fi fans. WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC,V7V 1J8 Tel: (604) 925-7400 Library Hours: (604) 925-7401 Fax: (604) 925-5933 Modem Acc.: 925-7409