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NEWSLETTER No. 5 June 1987 Dear Friend of the Library: We hear a lot about Free Trade these days and all the problems involved. Fortunately ideas still travel to and fro quite freely and usually cost nothing because most people like sharing something they have thought of themselves. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT The Friends of West Vancouver Memorial Library now number 80 and there must be some good ideas lurking out there somewhere. I suggest we have only scratched the surface of our potential so far, and we are much too quiet and unobtrusive. To be really effective we must become more obvious and make more noise. We are people who care about the Library and we can encourage others to be interested in it and support it in all sorts of ways. We should try to build public confidence in our enthusiasm, our knowledge of the facility and our serious concern about the present problems, so that the eventual fundraising campaign will not come as a surprise to those who need to be convinced: what we are talking about is "The Restoration of Excellence" - remember? IDEAS As food for thought we can look at examples of things being done by numerous groups of Friends of Libraries all over America. A recent edition of the "National Notebook" published by "Friends of Libraries U.S.A." is full of interesting ideas, many of which would be worth considering here. For example: FUNDRAISING Book Sales: - At least twice a year, some say three times. - One has opened a year-round book store. - Many have a "gift shop" during book sales and at other times, selling "Friends" note cards, postcards, book marks, T-shirts, golf shirts, key rings, tankards and other gift items: we could do something at busy times - Saturdays for instance? - One prepared a Guide to Clubs and Organizations in the area for sale to the public. - What about a history of our own Library (the newly-published history of West Vancouver carries only a page and a half about the Library). - Sales of donated books and magazines - one group in Temple (Texas) at a first book sale raised $2,500 and the significant thing is that no fewer than 4,000 books were donated through drop-off boxes placed in the shopping mall - only one third of the books sold came from the library! They also used an empty