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Treasures of our Memorial Library In the exciting field of communications, our cherished library is galloping ahead in "Seven League Boots". No longer can one claim, "plus qa change, plus c'est la meme chose". These breath-taking changes in our venerable institution have stampeded into the new millennium under the skilled direction of our "Head of Systems", Mr. Roy Hunter. I suspect he has access to Aladdin's fabled lamp, for his "systems" produce marvel after marvel. Anyway, he obviously knows the correct "P.I.N." numbers, and follows them with superb technical knowledge. Recently, the library has installed five new "servers" -large computers which have vastly extended the scope of the library's connections with the Internet, and centralized control of its search computers (which directly serve the enquiring public). Recently, there was a three-day failure of one of these servers, during which the Library's patrons found the usual services were not functioning, apart from the Home Page and Internet Connections. The Library's response was to investigate the installation of a new "R.A. I.D." system, (meaning "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Discs"). This system apparently will prevent such failures in future, apart from the unlikely scenario of a general power failure in the neighbourhood. To whet still further the appetites of home-based patrons, the library will soon substitute a new "Home Page", which will increase the scope and the ease of access of the whole system. Wonder of wonders, it will even allow the user to download photographs with excellent definition. Pictures of regional historical interest will be made available through the Library's Quick Reference File, for which the software had been supplied through the generosity of the Memorial Library Foundation. The Software Superman, Mr. Roy Hunter, smiles when I express bemused astonishment at all these marvels, but I gather he is somewhat disappointed that training sessions on new equipment, to help staff and the general public to use it all to best advantage , are at present curtailed because of unavoidable limitations of staff numbers. Ted Hill