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J U N E ’ 9 9 LIBRARY NEWS i World ofReadlnd While all of us look forward to our “summer reading,'* the term has special significance for the young people of West Vancouver. Summer means it is time for the Summer Reading Club at the Library. This year, the theme is “A World of Reading** and sign-up starts on June 14 at the Information Desk in the Youth Services Department. Club members receive a package including a reading passport and a bookmark. Summer Reading Club is a Province-wide program and is supported by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Local support for this program comes from the Friends of the Library. The club includes special programs that will circle the globe. Participants will experience mask making, games and stories from the 4 corners of the world. Space at programs is limited so registration is required. Club participants also read books and report on them to the librarians, who are always interested in hearing about a book read and enjoyed. This will be the second year for the very successful Teen Summer Reading Club. Last year 153 teens participated and read an astounding 1,434 books. Support for this comes from local businesses such as SunTech Optics, IGA, Red Horses, National Book Service, HMV Records and The Cherry Tree. For more information about Summer Reading Clubs, please call 925-7408! Friends of llie Library Book Sale June 19 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. June 20 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. REFERENCE SERVICES With summer coming and travel plans being considered, have a look at the Reference Department’s new annual Travel Weekly's Official Cruise Guide for 1999. This directory provides toll- free reservation numbers, alphabetical lists of cruise ships including an index to former names where changes of ship names have occurred, ship profiles, sizes and passenger capacities with a large number of deck plans, ports of call and departure, schedules, an index to theme cruises, and booking agency information. WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC,V7V IJ8 Tel: (604) 925-7400 Library Hours: (604) 925-7401 Fax:(604)925-5933 Modem Acc : 925-7409 URL: www.wvml. jcslacs.bc.ca/start/ An often overlooked reference book, the Random House Word Menu, is a powerful literary tool in the hands of a range of researchers from writers and poets to crossworders and Scrabblers. For example, frequent requests for a relatively comprehensive list of suffix words such as -phobias, -manias, -philes (-philias), or prefix words such as philo-, pseudo-, psycho-, neuro- etc., can be formulated by using this text. Essentially, however, this book provides its readers with a listing of terms related to subject disciplines beginning with broad categories, for example: Sciences, then subgrouped as Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Mathematics, etc. In a way, this book can be used as a complement to a thesaurus and a dictionary, but lets you zoom in on branches of knowledge. An even more specialized reference is -Ologies & -Isms: a Thematic Dictionary. Best described as a “wordhoard” thesaurus, it takes a general term like “killing” and gives variant types, e.g. amicicide (murder of a friend), parricide (murder of a parent), tyrannicide (murder of a tyrant); or a related term “murder” with such variants as androphonomania (homicidal mania), etc. ADULT SERVICES IN THE GALLERY ... “Summer Show” - art work by the members of West Vancouver Sketch Club will be on display June? - July 3,1999. All members of the West Vancouver Sketch Club are North Shore residents and this show represents a wide variety of techniques and media used to express the personalities of the artists. There is much artistic talent, enthusiasm and vitality in this latest juried show by club members. Reception, artists in attendance, June 7, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Most works are for sale. JUNE ... Summer dreaming ... the Solstice and Midsummer’s Day ... a world of honey bees and irises everywhere ... enjoy a summer idyll with a book for these rare June days. We offer a few suggestions ... (FICELI) ELIZABETH 1866- 1941 The Solitary Summer A diary of a summer spent with books, the garden, children, husband and “perpetual happiness.” (FIC IBB) IBBOTSON, EVA A Song For Summer A good light romance set in Austria before the war and in London after where love is requited and all ends happily. (MYSCRE) CRESPI, CAMILLA T. The Trouble With A Hot Summer Take Simona Griffo and her Russian-born partner Dimitri and summer on Long Island ... mix with murder, Italian food, a heat wave and you have a great beach read.