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coming up for renewal won't be continued. ADULT SERVICES DEPARTMENT MARGARET LAURENCE Her knowledge of the writer's craft and her insights into the complexities of modern life make her one of Canada's favourite writers. ALICE MUNRO Uncannily familiar characters and superbly accomplished writing. MICHAEL ONDAATJE It will be necessary to curtail some ofj our fringe programming and activities. The Memorial Library won't be involved in Community Day this year and the number of The information brochures will decline. Library Board has also decided to revise its schedule of fines and service charges as detailed on notices posted around the Library, in an effort to produce higher revenues. Despite these setbacks, the Library Board and staff will be doing everything possi ble to ensure that the quality of Library service is maintained at a level of which this community can be proud. We ask for your help and understanding as we face the challenges of 1985. Jack Mounce, Chief Librarian REFERENCE DEPARTMENT When searching a topic of interest through the (:oulputer terminal, you may have lit Lie succe This should finding adequate information. not be the end of your search! The Reference Department holds numerous indexes which will direct you to information contained in other sources. For example: The Canadian Periodical Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Index, Canadian Business Index will direct you to Granger's Index to Poetry magazine articles; will help you locate specific poems, while the IN THE GALLERY J -- Photographic works by North Shore News staff and freelance photographers Terry Peters, Ian Smith and Stuart Davis will be featured in the library the month of April. Messrs. Peters, Smith and Davis have won many photojournalism awards. CELEBRATE THE NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL, APRIL His inimitable style seduces the reader with its clarity and richness of imagery and metaphor. MORDECAI RICHLER Canada's resident ascerbic wit. 114 - 20 - READ A CANADIAN BOOK! ATWOOD, Margaret A powerful, intelligent poet and novelist who takes risks and wins. CONSTANCE BERESFORD-HOWE Her trio of linked novels deal with three very different fictional women all mildly eccentric ar' engagingly optimistic. -- LEON ROOKE Writing which is humourous, wildly imaginative. AUDREY THOMAS This Gulf Island resident writes perceptively and trenchantly about human relationships. GUY VANDERHAEGHE An impressive newcomer with a talent for express ing moments, details with a clear brilliance. * * * * * * * * intelligent and ROBEdTSON DAVIES Masterful writing from one of our most distinguished men of letters. MARIAN ENGEL A brilliant writer on the human condition whose career has been recently cut hort by death. TIMOTHY FINDLEY Complex, deeply absorbing novels by a master story teller. MAVIS GALLANT A Canadian expatriate, living in Paris, whose writing combines the subtle, ironic and disturbing in serious delight. REMEM8ER BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meets Wednesday, April 17. For more information, call 926--3291, local 12. Play Index and the Short Story Index will locate plays and short stories respectively and the Essay and General Literature Index will locate articles on a comprehensive array of topics in These are just some of the index anthologies. ing services in Reference. For information on registering for the Federal Business Development Bank "Business Lecture Series", please phone 926--3291 and ask for Reference (local 14). - And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake ..." Robert Bridge