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NEWSLETTER No. 79 Dear Friend of the Library, NEXT MEETING (No meeting this month). The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 28th, 1994 at 7:00 p.m. in the Peter J. Peters Meeting Room. ENHANCEMENT TO AUTOMATED SYSTEM (This note from the Chief Librarian's Report to the meeting on June 22,1994, should have appeared in the July Newsletter, but was overlooked by me: my apologies for that error). Library patrons are now able to place reserves on-line either from home or at the Library. Friends of the Library are entitled to 10 free reserves each year, so please make sure that you show your membership card when picking up your reserves as otherwise the computer automatically charges you 50 cents each time.. MEZZANINE CARPET REPLACEMENT The Library News for this month announced that "that really tatty old carpet in the mezzanine" will be replaced sometime in August. If you have had or are having trouble gaining access to non-fiction works with numbers between 000 and 740 (including car repair, gardening, cooking, medicine, home renovation, business), then have faith - the job will be soon be done, if not already completed even though 14 rows of shelving containing 18,500 books are sitting on the carpet. "Let's not carp, it will soon be done!" ARTISTS RECEPTION The next artist's reception will be on Monday, August 29th from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. with West Vancouver photographer Brian Freestone in attendance. His exhibition "Fathoms - Beauty In The Deep" will continue until October 2. ANIMAL MAGIC (ANCIENT AND MODERN) Experiments have suggested animals may be telepathic. According to the Greek moral philosopher and historian Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) in his dialogue "On the Cleverness of Animals," they are far more than that. The six speakers first establish that animals are rational because they plan for the future, have memory, care for their young, show gratitude and can be courageous and big-hearted. Then, using hundreds of examples, they debate whether land or sea animals are superior. Aristotimus argues for land animals. Dogs put pebbles into a half-empty jar to bring the liquid to the top for drinking. Geese flying through eagles* territory carry stones in their beaks so they do not give themselves away by honking. August 1994 .../2