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SATURDAY STORYTIME Drop in for films, stories and fun for 4 to 8 year--olds. Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. rnun LIDRflR flWS 1983: VALENTINE'S PUPPET THEATRE "The Blue Rose" year--olds ** -- A REVIEW a puppet show for 4 to 8 Saturday, February 11 at 11:00 a.m. Please note: Limit of 50 in audience. ** This is the time of year when we review the previous twelve month period and try to evaluate our performance during that time. `J1 -V. SPECTACLE EN FRANCAIS "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood") a puppet show for French Immersion students in Kindergarten and Grade I. -- L Wednesday, February 29 at 3:30 p.m. CLIFF HANGERS Are you interested in a new program for 6 to 10 year--aids in the library? The librarian will read aloud from an exciting novel, chapter by chapter, on a regularly scheduled basis, one afternoon a week. Call us at the Children's Department, 926--3291, to register your interest. rst of all, 1983 was by far the busiest year ever for the Memorial Lib rary. The volume of loans rose by 6% two--thirds of a to almost exactly million items, 18.1 loans for each of West Van's 37,000 residents. This works out to 2,206 loan transactions for every day we were open, or 3.6 every minute! Of course our computer helped us enor mously with this, but unfortunately it just stands there when all of those 666,339 books, records, cassettes and magazines start coming back, and need to be placed in proper order and returned to the shelves. So it was a hectic time for us! You also asked us 12% more questions than ever before over 71,000 of them. Some were easy but others took a long while to answer. -- YOUNG READER'S CHOICE AWARDS Attention all readers in grades 4 to 8 ,--ksk the Children's Librarian for a list of this earrs candidates for the Young Reader's Choice Awards and get ready to vote in March. MBBARY HcXJBS MDN-FRI 10:00 9:00 SAT. 10:00 5:00 LSED suND.Ys HcXIRS BX3KDROP -- -- The computer catalogue slowly improved, as much more information was entered in Q WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Drive. West Vancouver, B.C. V7V 1J8 - Là (604) 926-3291 February 1984