Biographical Material on Each Nominee Will Be Com Piled and Ready for the Board’S Consideration at the Jan
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Biographical material on each nominee will be com piled and ready for the board’s consideration at the Jan. 20 meeting. Additional nominations may be made from the floor at the meeting, as provided by system by-laws. The executive committee, made up of seven represent atives of the system board, meets monthly to approve expenditures and oversee actual operation of the system, according to policy set by the full system board. Meet ings usually are held at Hutchinson Public Library the afternoon of the second Monday of each month, but this schedule could be changed according to wishes of South Central Kansas Library System the committee. A change in time could be made, for in 901 North Main St. stance, to accommodate participation of more men on Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 the committee. Topics to be discussed at the Jan. 20 meeting include the preparation of the system union catalog for computer and January, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 1 microfilm, the system contract with the State Film Center at Wichita (see separ SCKLS BOARD TO MEET ate story) and the proper role of college IN HUTCHINSON JAN. 20 and institutional library members in de termination of system policy and gover A new member of the system executive committee nance. will be elected at the semi-annual meeting of the South During the morning of Jan. 20 (10 a.m. to noon) a Central Kansas Library System board of trustees at short workshop on book binding and a tour of the new 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20. quarters for the Technical Processing Department at The new member will replace Bill Bauer, Kingman, 2000 North Jackson are scheduled. who is completing his second four-year term on the com mittee. He has served two terms as president. Bauer, a PLAN FOR NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 37-year veteran of the jewelry business, has been a mem ber of the Kingman Library Board eight years and presi National Library Week, April 17-23, is looming on dent for one year. the horizon. SCKLS will furnish member libraries a A form is included in this issue of The small amount of materials to call attention to the spec Sun for nominations for Bauer’s position. ial occasion (probably a poster or two and bookmarks). Those submitting a name for the ballot Each library may want to incorporate them in spec should secure the nominee’s permission ial plans of its own. and have the form in the mail in time to If you’re planning something big or unique, let other reach Hutchinson by Jan. 17. librarians know, through The Sun. (Please clip and return to SCKLS) SCKLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION 1977 I have confirmed the interest and availability of the trustee representative named below and hereby place his or her name in nomination for the 1977 SCKLS Executive Committee: Nominee___________________________________Library_____________________________________ cal library board officer’s signature______________________ _____ _________ ______________ _ COMMITTEE APPROVES FILM CENTER ART PRINTS POPULAR CONTRACT AT $15,939 FOR 1977 Lyons — The Lyons Library has received a new ship After consideration of several alternatives, the SCKLS ment of 18 large art prints and nine small ones from the executive committee agreed to pay $15,939.17 for ser Elyria Arts Co. The Lyons Library’s popular rental ser vice from the State Film Center, Wichita, for 1977. vice averages 75 pictures a month on loan. Rent goes to The amount was set by the center based on a service defray cost of the pictures which constantly increases. fee of $3.26 per loan for 4,887 film loans to SCKLS libraries over a 12-month period. QUOTE OF THE MONTH SCKLS had paid $12,000 for the service in 1976 and offered to pay $12,500 from its state aid grant for the The next time an organizing group bogs down in ob service in 1977. Remainder of the state aid grant will be jections to the term, “chairman,” because it’s sexist used to pay Wichita Public Library $ 18,000 for Mail-a- and “chairperson” because it’s unwieldy, you can Book service in Sedgwick County and to pay expenses bring on a quick compromise by suggesting “meet head.” of Mail-a-Book in the other participating SCKLS counties. The $12,500 offer was regretfully refused, said T—P Smoke Signal, El Paso, Texas Richard Rademacher, WPL librarian. FT. HAYS STATE PLANS Executive committee members discus ANOTHER CHILDREN’S LIT TOUR sed possibility of allocating the $12,500 to system libraries so that they could Ft. Hays State College will conduct an “Internation spend their portion on films as far as it alism in Children’s Literature” Tour to Germany, Den would go, then charge a patron fee. The mark, Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union July 11- committee decided against this action Aug. 9, 1977. Eight hours of graduate or undergraduate for 1977, however, and authorized pay credit will be given for the travel and workshop pro ment of the full contract fee. gram, said Mrs. Donna Harsh, of the department of ed In the discussion committee members pointed out ucation, director. that much of the original film center collection had Highlight will be a 3-day workshop at the Interna been contributed by SCKLS and the request for a tional Youth Library in Munich. Plans are being made lower fee was based on this fact. for lectures, informal question and answer sessions, Each of the state’s seven library systems will make visits to libraries, book stores and places of folklore and its own contract with the film center. contemporary literature. An experienced multi-lingual travel guide will accompany the tour. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN MOUNDRIDGE SENIOR CITIZENS Moundridge — Senior citizens, who meet in the old junior high school building, hear about new books once a month from Moundridge Librarian Kathryn Krehbiel. A mini-bus may be put into operation to bring the group to the library. The library, which couldn’t afford a float for the town’s Bicentennial parade, showed off instead its most valuable resource, its patrons. In keeping with the parade theme, The Old and the New, the library section of the parade contained about 20 older citi zens dressed in old-time attire and about 16 young NEW MEMBER OF SCKLS people, each carrying a book and/or poster. Haysville — The board of the newly formed Haysville Library has voted to join SCKLS. The library was author ized by a November vote of the citizens. The board also has selected a library building in a central location. Best SF:75, edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976, $10. Fiction. This is the ninth annual collection of the year’s best science fiction. Twelve stories are included in the book. Fans will be waiting for this. True Sod, Barbara Oringderff, Mennonite Press, 1976, $20. Nonfiction. Local authors and Kansas history are always in de mand. Ms. Oringderff has done extensive searching to put together information on the little-known subject Pet Profiteers, Lee Edwards Benning, Quadrangle, of the prairie sod house. The text is accompanied by 1976, $8.95. Nonfiction. many early photographs. Also included are notes, a This year Americans will probably spend SSM* billion bibliography and an index. The illustrations are by on pets and their care — most of which is a real rip-off. Leah Johnson, “The Sod House Painter,” from There are costs for pet shops, grooming, boarding, acces Montezuma, Kansas. sories, shows and even funerals and cemetery plots. A sad but enlightening book. Walt Disney, Bob Thomas, Simon and Schuster, 1976, $9.95. Nonfiction The Care and Repair of Fishing Tackle, Mel Marshall, Through interviews with family, friends and co-work Winchester Press, 1976, $10. Nonfiction. ers, the author has produced a very readable biography Until recent years fishermen discarded worn and of the man he calls “an American original.” He ap broken tackle because it was cheaper to buy new sup proaches the subject chronologically by distinct per plies. Anglers realize that it is no longer practical so iods in Disney’s life. Although his admiration of the many are repairing instead of replacing. This is a good animator is apparent, he does not exclude the faults guide for the beginner. Photographs add to the easy-to- and weaknesses which make him real. The work also read text. contains a section of photographs. Crafts for Your Leisure Years, Cora Bodkin. Helene Forever Hold Your Banner High! Jerry Bowles, Leibowitz and Diana Wiener, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, Doubleday, 1976, $6.95. Nonfiction. $14.95. Nonfiction. With a new edition of the “Mickey Mouse Club” Although this is not published as a large print book, about to appear and the reruns of the original version the type has been enlarged for older readers. In addi out, what better time for a book on “how it really was.” tion to specific crafts with complete directions, the This is the story of the Mickey Mouse Club and what authors include some extras too. There is a chapter on happened to the Mouseketeers. The author does a follow compensatory techniques for those with special prob up on 12 of the stars and where they are now. lems. The appendix includes addresses for agencies, organizations, schools and sources for information for When I Was Young, Raymond Massey, Little, Brown, those working with the elderly. A good book to have. 1976, $10. Nonfiction. This is the first part of a two-volume autobiography McCall’s Cooking School, Mary Eckley and Mary J. of a respected actor in theatre, film and television.