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2 - For more information on giving opportunities, please call the Chief Librarian at 925-7410. As a contributor to our campaign, you are becoming a valued member of a team of supporters within the West Vancouver community that believes in the power of knowledge and the importance of growth and change. Please give generously to your Library. Editor's Note: A verse from Vita Sackville West's poem "The Garden" (slightly altered) sums it all up, as follows:Not think on heaven, for we tread on earth And must stay soberly about our business, Anchored to realism, knowing well That there's no pausing for complacency But only vision of a better future; This year, not next year, therefore must we turn Our glance from present pleasure, and prepare. Always prepare: the urge, the wish to travel Forward, and never rest on point of time. AUTHOR'S NIGHT The Memorial Library Foundation is planning to hold this year's event on June 24, 1996, 8 p.m. at the West Vancouver Secondary School theatre featuring Ann Rule, best selling author of true crime where she will read from her latest book "Dead by Sunset." Psychopathic killers are her specialty. Ann, a former Seattle policewoman and acknowledged "Master" of true crime, has skillfully created frighteningly realistic portraits of America's most diabolical killers. Her bestsellers include The Stranger Beside Me," "If You Really Loved Me" and "Small Sacrifices." In addition to her prolific output of best-selling novels, Ann has written more than 1400 articles in the last 22 years and continues in her long association with the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. Tickets may be obtained at the Library or from Ticketmaster and the cost is $20. BOOKSALE The book sale will take place at the Library (in the basement) on Saturday, June 22nd and Sunday, June 23rd; hours will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on both days. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: PREVIEW OF BOOK SALE This will be held on Friday, June 21st from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the basement. Admission by Membership Card only. Please: make sure you have your card with you! DONKEY-DRAWN LIBRARIES DELIVER LITERACY IN AFRICA (Extracts from an article in the Vancouver Sun, January 1996 - Kindly supplied by Irene Caudwell, our Treasurer) Last month we featured an article about a Canadian wife and mother who developed a very successful library in Ghana. This month we have the same kind of problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Africans thirst for education but World Bank figures put the illiteracy rate in sub-Saharan Africa at 51%, or about 300 million people, which is ten times the population of Canada. It's a tragic situation that's likely to get worse, despite such innovations as the donkey-drawn library. Nyaki is a case in point. Located in .../3