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West Vancouver Memorial Library · The Inquiring Mind WHAT'S IN A TITLE Suppressed Titles Titles of books are deceptive and, if taken too literally, the element of serendipity remains lost in the pages. Publishers either simplify titles (e.g., A Dictionary of...), or they obliquely emboss their titles with double meanings (e.g., Eureka!], which is a common marketing device to spark the curiosity of potential audiences. So if you're doing a history of automobiles, you can go to the encyclopaedia set with the general title The World of Automobiles, and cry out "end of job, well done!" Or, you can salvage additional knowledge from volumes hidden behind obscure titles. Eureka! is a set of books that reconstructs the stories of inventions, and eureka!... there's an entry for the history of the automobile. Another title, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, wouldn't you know it, has a history of the role of the auto in popular culture. Now let's try the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan... Times have changed in West Van... and it's all in pictures - in the collection of over 4000 vintage photographs housed in the Reference Department. Browse through these images and see into the past, even the not-so-distant past when we had a movie theatre in Ambleside! You can look at over 100 of these photos on our Web site at www.westvanlib.org. Click on Catalogue and then Historical Photographs. Laser or photographic reprints of most photos in the collection may be ordered at cost -please ask at the Reference Information desk. A picture is worth a thousand words. A publication of the West Vancouver Memorial Library® Februrary 2004 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1J8 604.925.7400