PAGE 12, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1978, WHITBY FREE PRESS Library reports good yearin 1977 The Whitby Public Library made significant progress in 1977 in growth of member- ship, extension of services, and preparations for the ex- pansion into the upper floor of the main branch on Dun- das Street. The library's annual re- port states that 2,985 new members registered in 1977, bringing the total member- ship for Whitby and Brooklin branches to 13,904 by the end of February 1978. Book circulation increased 10,416, and more than 6,000 books were added to the Whitby branch and 1,700 to the Brooklin branch. In addi- tion 2,909 new paperback were added in Whitby and 640 in Brooklin. The over-aal circulation SPEND 15 MINUTES WITH US TOMORROW AND FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN DURHAM! Morning Reports 6e20 & 7:20 M increase in both branches amounted to 13,712, or 5.5 per cent over 1976. Services were many and varied, including an out- reach department to bring books, records, large print books, and talking books to people who could not come to the library; weekly visits to the psychiatrie hospital, jail, Fairview Lodge and seniors activity centre; a large in- crease in film department facilities through the Dur- ham Film Pool and a Win- tario grant; and almost double the number of îe- quests of the previous year processed by the reference department. Às a bIbliographic centre the library was able to sun- ply more than half the re- quests it received from smal- ler libraries in the region, from its own collection. A new charging system in the main library started last year, improving the efficien- cy of the circulation desk. Through a reciprocal bor- rowing agreement made last fall, Whitby residents may borrow and return books from any library in the re- gion with the exception of Oshawa and Ajax. The central Ontario Re- gional Library system pro- vided a $5,000 grant to pur- chase reference books for the bibliographie centre, and the collection of government documents increased signifi- cantly. Programming was some- what curtailed by the reno- vations at the main branch, but story hours, film shows, preschool program, a gene- ology workshop, hobby show and numerous other special events were carried out in 1977. Floats were provided for the Brooklin Spring Fair and County Town Carnival par- ades to publiçize the libra- ry's work. Through a donation from the Metro Toronto Library of duplicate copes from its multilingual collection, the Whitby library obtained about 50 books each in Ita- lian, German, French and Polish. Added to this was a collection of Duteh, Italian and Maltese books from the National Library of Canada. BE YOUR '/'etu OWN PLUMBER. LET. PLUMBING MART ............HOW YOU HOW! We carry a complete line of pipes, fittirigs and fixtures for home and cottage. "WE MAKE PLUMBING EASY" PLUMBING MART 1540 DUNDAS ST. EAST NORTHWEST CORNER OF THICKSON & DUNDAS WHITBY 579-5852 E- With the aid of an Exper- ience '77 grant from the Ontario government, the li- bray hired a history student at the University of Toronto to index the Whitby news- papers from 1850 to *1940, which are on microfilm. A byproduct of the project was a chronological list of major events in Whitby for that period. There was also a walking tour of historie houses in downtown Whitby as part of the library's spring program schedule. Forty regular story hours served 709 children, and 754 children in 29 classes visited the library. Local nursery schools made 15 visits with 75 children, while the pre- school program had 56 ses- sions with attendance of 1,241 children. A French preschool pro- gram was initiated, with considerable success, 85 children attending seven ses- sions. In thé fall a mini library was begun at Palmerston Public School for children who were too far away from the main library to walk. Special events included a pet show, Animal Week, travelling puppet show, Canadian Children's Book Festival, surmmer visits to the playgrounds, and Crhist- mas and Hallowe'en pro- grams. A new library of 360 books was established at the Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital, and a book trolley sérvice was begun at Fairview Lodge. Special projects in the technical department in-, cluded recataloguihg of the biography- collection, and taking 400 old books from the circulating collections in Whitby and Brooklin and placing them in a special Canadiana reference collec tion. 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