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NEWSLETTER No. 77 Dear Friend of the Library, NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, June 22nd, 1994 at 7:00 p.m. in the Peter J. Peters Meeting Room. BOOK SALE '94: JUNE 25TH & 26TH AT THE ICE ARENA (10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.) By now much book sorting will have been done, and our publicity efforts will be bearing fruit through posters and signs, the banner on the bridge at Park Royal, ads on the Blue Buses, notification in schools and posters in store windows, etc. Well done everybody and thanks for all your efforts! And a special word of appreciation for John Hunter who is co-ordinating it all this year for the first time. Many of us will be providing the "final heave" in setting it all up, starting at 12 noon on June 24th (Friday), assisted in part this year by a few students, hopefully with strong backs and lots of energy! (Please bring your surplus plastic bags, for the benefit of our customers!) SALE PREVIEW: FRIENDS PLEASE NOTE! Friends who are on the list of members for 1994 (having joined or renewed their membership) will be entitled to their usual privileged advance preview of the book sale and the opportunity to purchase up to three non-fiction books and unlimited fiction items, for a period of one hour before the general public are admitted on the first day of the sale. This hour will be from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. June 25th. Be sure to bring your 1994 Membership Card as this will be required for admission to this special preview. You will be admitted at a separate entrance to the Ice Arena, situated near the rear, right-hand comer of the building (as you look at it from the front) - the north-east comer in other words - please watch for and follow signs ("F.O.L PREVIEW ) . ARTISTS RECEPTION The next artist's reception will take place on Monday, June 27th from 7:30 8:30 p.m. The artist featured will be Houchang Seyhoun. The exhibition will continue until July 31st. DOGS AND THE QUIET PEDESTRIAN I would not ordinarily expect to include these engaging quadrupeds in a Nature Diary, but they not infrequently become an integral part of my customary pedestrianism. We are not, at the moment, owned by a dog, and have not been for a good many years. But I like dogs, and they have an uncanny way of knowing this, so that quite often, on my walk, I experience that strange sense of "presence" that one so often encounters, and, looking round, find that I am accompanied by a friendly canine. I do not encourage this, in fact I go to some length in trying to discourage the animals from following me on my .12 June 1994