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NEWSLETTER No. 34 May 1990 Dear Friend: You have no idea how much I appreciate being back at the helm, so to speak, after a prolonged and, I regret to say, enforced absence. The Spring book sale will be held on Saturday, the 23rd of June, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, the 24th of June, from 1 to 4 p.m. and will, as is customary, consist of paperbacks. There will be a preview for Friends of the Library between 5 and 6 p.m. in the evening of the Friday immediately preceding the sale. (I have often wondered why, given the time of year, it is referred to as the "Spring" sale, since it comes so close to Midsummer's Day. Oh well, no doubt there is some perfectly logical reason.) If you would like to assist in any way, be it sorting, checking out purchases, or on cash, for two hours on either of the days of the sale itself, please get in touch with Mrs. Dorothy Jones at 926-1380 and she will be glad to pass your name along to the organizers of the sale. The Adopt-a-Book programme is coming along very well indeed, with the insertion of over 400 book plates so far. There are still about 300 to go and what is involved is the picking up of a little pile of handsomely hand-written (in part) bookplates, inserting them into relatively new books and recording the name of the donor and the book - with its call-number - so that at some later date if the donor wants to know specifically how his or her donation was used, the library staff can consult the record and produce the book(s). If you're interested in gluing and recording, give Eileen de Bues a call at 922-5446. Eileen has asked me to mention some of the work that goes on behind the scenes a propos a book sale. There are people who labour down in the "Dungeon" removing donated and discarded books from their boxes? sorting them by type, by subject, and alphabetically; putting them back into boxes so that they can be carried up into the Library by our wonderful volunteers from the Air Cadets; and picked over and sold at bargain prices - real bargains when you realize that for the price of a pack of cigarettes you can get four or five books - WOW! So far our endeavours have enriched the Building Fund by something to the order of $21,000. I hope to see you at the next meeting - Wednesday, May 23rd, at 7 p.m. in the Seminar Room, and if not then, then by all means at the sale. Yours most sincerely, Charles B. Corbet, Editor