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.

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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. He Norton, Random, House-McCall’s, 1976, $7.95. covers the years from 1896 to the early 1920’s. The Nonfiction. descriptions of places and events in his Canadian child­ The authors have subtitled this “Step-by-step direc­ hood are amazingly detailed. Very pleasant reading. tions for mistake-proof recipes.” Since the authors are both food editors for McCall’s, the book looks like re­ Walks Far Woman, Colin Stuart, Dial Press, 1976. prints from the magazine. Almost every step is illus­ $8.95. Fiction. trated. You can’t keep from getting hungry just reading Because the author is a history professor, this novel about all these goodies. is based on actual characters and events. It’s a beauti­ fully told story of the last years of the great Indian tribes of Montana, primarily the Teton Sioux. The story is happy, harsh and bitter as seen through a Games and Puzzles You Can Make Yourself. Harvey woman’s eyes. Good leisure reading. Mr. Stuart was Weiss, Crowell, 1976, $6.50. Nonfiction. born in Little River, Kansas but grew up in Montana. Many entertaining games and puzzles can be made at home, inexpensively by children. Thirty-nine activ­ Drum Runnin’ Fool Donna Alverson, Reader’s Digest ities are presented with easy-to-follow instructions for distributed by Crowell, 1976, $8.95. Fiction. making and playing. Solutions for the puzzles are also Although this is certainly not the most well-written included. book on the market, the subject will probably make it popular in our area. Ann Norman and her inherited Listen to the Crows, Laurence Pringle, Crowell, 1976, horse Jeep Honey cat set out to capture the world cham­ $5.95. Nonfiction. pionship in barrel racing. The not-so-glittery life of pro­ What Kansan hasn’t looked toward the skies and won­ fessional rodeo is portrayed. dered about those black birds. Using scientific studies for background, Mr. Pringle gives some revealing insights into the crow’s world. Primarily he discusses the lan­ guage of the bird.

Wonders of Prairie Dogs, G. Earl Chance, Dodd, Mead, 1976, $4.95. Nonfiction. Another Kansas resident that always draws attention is the prairie dog. The author has generously dispersed photographs throughout the text. History, habits, en­ vironment and neighbors are discussed in the book.

COMING UP

Jan. 20 — Workshop on book binding, tour of new Something to Shout About, Patricia Beatty, Morrow, quarters of Technical Processing Department, 1976. $6795. Fiction. Hutchinson Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Semi­ This is another of Ms. Beatty’s well-researched fron­ annual SCKLS trustee meeting, HPL, 1:30 p.m. tier fictions. Montana Territory in 1875 is home to Ian. 27 — William Allen White Book Award dinner, 13-year old Hope Foster. She joins the local ladies in Wichita. a campaign to collect funds for a new school. In the pro­ April 17-23 — National Library Week. cess they nearly close a saloon and land in jail. May 11, 12, 13 — Kansas Library Association con­ ference, Topeka. Magic . . . Naturally! Vicki Cobb, Lippincott, 1976, June 16-23 — American Library Association annual $5.95. Nonfiction. conference, Detroit. Magic is always fun, but when the performer learns these tricks, he has added to his scientific knowledge NEW LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS too. The tricks are performed with readily available sup­ plies many of which are found around the home. Goddard — A new member of the Goddard Library Board is Mrs. Eston Beery. She succeeds Mrs. Marvin Squash Pie, Wilson Gage, pictures by Glen Rounds, Daniels who moved away. Greenwillow Books, 1976, $5.95. Fiction. Norwich — Representing Norwich Public Library on Once there was a fanner who liked squash pie. He the SCKLS board will be Mrs. Don White, who replaces really had troubles growing the squash, however. A Mrs. W. L. Ewing. story just for fun. Pretty Prairie — Mrs. La Verna Schrag replaces Mrs. Joan Seyb on the Pretty Prairie Library Board. Musk Oxen, Margaret Rau, Crowell, 1976. $5.95. Oomingmak, the bearded one, is the name Eskimos GIVE-AWAYS AT EL DORADO gave to the gentle musk ox. Ms. Rau presents the Artie winters and the land’s other inhabitants as well as the El Dorado — Bradford Memorial Library is offering musk ox. A good portrait of a little-known animal. as give-aways a 1976 Moody Utility Manual and a 1976 Moody Transportation manual. 1977 SCKLS WORKSHOP Sept. 15 — Book Fair; special exhibits, subject col­ SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED lections, prepared by SCKLS staff; David Youngstrom, Denver, fall book reviews. Six SCKLS workshops are planned for the coming November — Young adult services workshop, speak­ year, said Donna Whitson, director of personnel dev­ ers, Richard Peck, author of “Representing Super Doll,” elopment. “Are You in the House Alone? ” and other books, and Beginning in January with a workshop on book­ Mike Printz, Topeka high school librarian. binding, the schedule concludes in November with a workshop on young adult library services. EL DORADO LIBRARY FRIENDS Dates have not been set in some cases, but the ESTABLISH BOOK STORE months are scheduled. A brochure on the completed schedule will be mailed as soon as possible. El Dorado — Friends of the Library in El Dorado Tentative plans are: have established a book store for used books on the Jan. 20 — 10 a.m.-noon, workshop on book binding lower level of Bradford Memorial Library. Both don­ presented by George Leighy Jr., of American Binderies, ated books and withdrawals from the library are sold Topeka. He will show samples of different book bind­ to benefit the library. ing methods and discuss what books are worth rebind­ Other projects of the Friends are painting the walls ing. A new 25-minute film on the binding process will of the children’s room and listing all reference books be shown. After a question and answer session, the on cards for a union catalog of Bradford and Butler group will tour the new quarters of the Technical Pro­ County Junior College library. cessing Department. March 4 — Reviews of new spring books by CONSUMER INFORMATION David Youngstrom, of Gordon’s Books, Denver. CATALOGS AVAILABLE April - Genealogy workshop. May 2, 3 - Children’s services workshop: speaker, “Consumer, Information,” a quarterly catalog of Dr. Caroline Bauer, children’s services specialist, Uni­ federal publications containing practical consumer versity of Oregon. She will show materials and puppets information, is available free in bulk quantities (more for story hours and demonstrate methods of stimulat­ than 25) to libraries. Write to General Services Admin­ ing children’s reading. istration, Consumer Information Center, Washington, D. C. 20405. A catalog in Spanish, “Information para el Consumi- dor,” may be ordered from Consumer Information Cen­ ter, Pueblo, Colo. 81009. This catalog which lists more than 100 free or low-cost federal publications was dev­ eloped as a resource for educators and community leaders working with Spanish-speaking consumers.

NEW MAIL-A-BOOK CATALOG BEING DISTRIBUTED

Rice, Sedgwick and Stafford Counties will be the first of SCKLS’s 12 to receive the new 1977 Mail-a- Book catalogs. The new catalog cover is printed in sepia tones with orange lettering, a contrast to the red, white and blue of former years. Catalogs will go to 35,353 households on rural routes in the system. Mailings will be staggered every 10 days or two weeks to avoid a deluge of orders for the new books, said Earl Dodge, director of the service. Coun­ ties will receive catalogs in this order: Reno, McPherson, Kingman, Harvey, Cowley, Butler, Barber and Sumner.

continued on next page Books in the 1976 catalog will be held over until education, has been expanded to handle calls concern­ June or July and patrons may order from both cata­ ing informal learning. These would include instruction logs until that time. Books from the new catalog are in such areas as arts and crafts, outdoor skills or per­ being limited to two to a customer per order, Dodge sonal growth. said, but orders may be repeated as books are returned. The service, a joint project of the University of Kan­ Mail-a-book patrons pay no fees for the service. The sas and Kansas State University, has been in operation paperback books are shipped in jiffy bags with postage almost a year with information on post high school ed­ for their return included. ucation for all ages, career opportunities and qualifica­ tions. MEDIA MANAGEMENT COURSE The number for FIRST (For Information and Re­ OFFERED AT HUTCH PUBLIC ferral Services Toll-free) is 1-800-532-6772. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and until 9 p.m. A 3-hour graduate credit course, the School Media on Wednesdays; 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Center, will be offered at Hutchinson Public Library by Emporia State College Jan. 19-May 4. Classes will HOW TO SAY IT be held 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays with Dr. Pat Beilke the instructor. The fee is $22 per credit hour. Names of some writers can throw you into a fit of The course is a study of media center administrative mumbling. practices and services to support a school’s educational Here is a list of pronunciations. Some are phonetically aims, with emphasis on standards, legislation, personnel, spelled; others are “sounds like” words. facilities, materials, guidance and business procedures. Louis Auchincloss (LOO-ee AUK-in-closs); Ann Beattie (WHEAT-ee); Evan Connell (stress as in Cornell); FIRST EXPANDS EDUCATION Isak Dinesen (EE-sock THIN-again); Erica Jong (hard j INFORMATION RESOURCES as in jog-not Yong or Jhong); Alfred Kazin (STAYS-in); Marya Mannes (MAR-ee-uh MAHN-ess); Thomas FIRST, a telephone information and referral service in Pynchon (PINCH-un).

The SUN-Newsletter South Central Kansas Library System Nonprofit Organization 901 N. Main St. U. S. POSTAGE Hutchinson, Kan. 67501 *** PAID Director-Duane F. Johnson PERMIT NO. SO Editor-Mary Anne Crabb Hutchinson, Kansas 67501

ERNESTINE GILLILAND, STATE LIBRN. KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 535 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA, KANSAS 66603 Haysville was accepted for membership as the 65th public library of the system. During 1976, a total of 126,249 books were depos­ ited in member libraries through the Rotating Book Service, according to the annual report. Other statistics showed 20,870 inter-library loans during the year; 42,165 books sent out by the Mail-a-Book Service; 22,730 Talking Books circulated to about 600 blind and handicapped patrons; and 45,096 books processed for library use.

South Central Kansas Library System SPRING BOOK REVIEWS COMING 901 North Main St. AT MARCH 4 WORKSHOP IN WICHITA Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 David Youngstrom, manager and buyer for Gordon’s Books Inc., Denver, will review new spring books at the March 4 workshop of South Central Kansas Library System. February, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 2 The workshop will be at Wichita Public Library. Cof­ fee will be served at 9 a.m. and the program will begin at 9:30. Dismissal will be at 1 p.m. EDNA BUSCHOW ELECTED CHAIRMAN; Youngstrom, an able reviewer of publishers’ lists, will BARBARA WUNSCH NEW MEMBER spot new titles in many fields and give a rundown on projected best sellers. Before becoming manager of Mrs. Edna Buschow, Valley Center, was elected chair­ Gordon’s, Youngstrom had careers in several fields, as man by the seven-member executive committee of the a cab driver in New York City, rock and roll editor of SCKLS board following the semi-annual meeting of the the Denver Post and teacher of disturbed children. He board of trustees in Hutchinson Jan. 20. Other new was a guest reviewer at the Book Fair last fall. officers are Mrs. Annie Hodgson, Little River, vice chair­ A second SCKLS workshop is scheduled for March. man; Mrs. Vee Voran, Pretty Prairie, secretary; and It will be on services for the blind and physically handi­ Mrs. Norma Mitchell, Hutchinson, treasurer. Bill Bauer, capped on March 29 and 31 and April 1 at locations to Kingman, chairman the past two years, retired from the be announced later. committee. Mrs. Barbara Wunsch, Kingman, was elected to the REMEMBER YOUR HOMEBOUND committee by the trustees during the semi-annual meet­ ing. She is serving her second term on the Kingman Lib­ PATRONS THIS WINTER! rary Board. A substitute teacher in Kingman, she graduated from Kansas University and taught at Prairie Village six years before moving to Kingman as the wife of Attorney Robert Wunsch. The role of colleges in operation of the system will be studied by a special commit­ tee during the coming six months, with a report due at the June board meeting. Two colleges, Southwestern of Winfield and Friends Bible of Haviland, now belong to the system, which includes 65 public lib­ raries in 12 counties, and other colleges are considering membership. Guidelines for use of system services, interlibrary loan and other matters will be discussed. HOT LINE GOING STRONG at Dodge City Public Library Wednesday, March 16. The Liberal and Hays Public Libraries are cooperating The legislative Hot Line, a direct telephone service of in the project. the State Library, has been reactivated with the opening The workshop, funded by the Health, Education of the Legislature. and Welfare Department, is open free to all interested The Hot Line number, 1-800-432-3924, may be used librarians and library friends. Coffee will be served at by citizens directly or by public libraries for patrons de­ 9 a.m., prior to the 9:30 to 4 p.m. workshop. siring legislative information. All bills and related inform­ Miss Smith, who retired in 1975 from her Washing­ ation are indexed and stored in a computerized data base ton job, lives in New York. She has worked as a consult­ which is kept up to the minute. The State Library staff ant in setting up community information centers in can search the computer while the caller is on the line. libraries. Information available includes status of specific House The workshop morning session will give a and Senate bills, schedule of pending House and Senate general view of community information cen­ action, schedules and agendas of committee meetings, ters. Representatives of centers in Kansas City, background information on legislation, information Topeka and Manhattan have been invited to concerning appointments, location of state personnel attend. In the afternoon the program will be and offices responsible for various services. The caller on actual planning of community centers, how also may leave a request for a legislator to call him. to contact community agencies, how to refer The Hot Line is manned by the State Library in the patrons and work with the agencies and how Capitol Building from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through to publicize the service. Friday and any additional time the House or Senate is More information may be secured from Jan Bryant in session. or Karen Curtis at the Dodge City Library, 316-225-0248. Ten to 20 calls an hour are being received with heavier Dodge City has such a center, funded through HEW. volume expected toward the end of the session. The library makes referrals for services to the closest No charge is made for the service or telephone call on agency possible, said Miss Bryant, but no follow-up has the Hot Line. The full service is paid by the State Library. been set up so far. The service is time-consuming, she said, and generally requires that the library be open sev­ CALENDAR. . . CALENDAR. . . CALENDAR eral days a week, at least.

Feb. 14 — SCKLS Executive Committee meeting, EARLY GARDENING SHELF Hutchinson Public Library, 2 p.m. March 4 — SCKLS Workshop, spring book reviews Burrton—The early bird who wants to get a head by David Youngstrom of Denver, Wichita start on gardening will find a special shelf on his sub­ Public Library, 9 a.m.-l p.m. ject at the Burrton Library. March 16 — Workshop on Community Information Service, Dodge City Public Library, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (see story this page) March 29, 31, April 1 — SCKLS Workshops, services for blind and handicapped. April 17-23 — National Library Week May 11, 12, 13 — Kansas Library Association con­ ference, Topeka June 16-23 — American Library Association annual conference, Detroit.

DODGE CITY WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY INFORMATION

A former library consultant for the U.S.Office of Education, Eleanor Smith, will conduct a workshop on setting up community information centers in libraries Two That Were Tough, Robert Burch, Viking, 1976, $6$5. Mr. Hilton had spent his entire life operating a rural gristmill. Now everyone was gone. Even the neighbors were moving away. The old man is left with Wild Wings, a shrewd old rooster, who values his freedom too. Com­ ing to terms with growing old is the theme Mr. Burch handles beautifully in this book.

Hound and Bear, story and pictures by Dick Gackenbach, Seabury, 1976, $5.95. Here are three stories of two very good friends. Bear is rather serious and quite sensible. Hound is a practical joker whose tricks usually backfire. His last trick is a Two Greedy Bears, Mira Ginsburg, Macmillan, 1976, good one and all ends well. $6.95. Mira Ginsburg has become well-known as a transla­ Merry Ever After, written and illustrated by Joe tor of Slavic tales. This Hungarian folk story presents Lasker, Viking, 1976, $7.95. the inevitable rewards of greed. The pictures are by Who can resist stories of castles and kings and Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey who also illustrated knights? Mr. Lasker says he has always been interested the author’s “Mushroom in the Rain.” in medieval Europe and its customs. He presents two weddings—one of noblemen and one of peasants—to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor, give us a good idea of medieval life. The illustrations Dial, 1976, $7.95. add a great deal to the story. Mississippi in the 1930’s is shown through the eyes of a young black girl, Cassie Logan. The struggles of A Fair Wind for Troy, Doris Gates, Viking, 1976, all families during those times, but especially blacks, $6.95. were trying. The Logans lived with injustice and a re­ This is the sixth and final volume of the retelling of bellion that couldn’t be voiced without harsh conse­ the Greek myths by Miss Gates. The tragic Trojan war quences. A very well-written book. and the events leading to it form the plot for this vol­ ume. A good addition to any mythology collection for The Accident, Carol Carrick, Seabury, 1976, $6.95. the young. Helping children understand death has been the sub­ ject of several children’s books in recent months. In Medicine Show, Mary Calhoun, Harper and Row, this story a young boy’s dog is killed on the highway. 1976, $6.79. He feels guilt and remorse until his father helps him Subtitled “Conning People and Making Them Like accept and understand what has happened. It,” this is an account of traveling “cure-all” shows. The story is accompanied by photographs and adver­ Three Wishes, Lucille Clifton, Viking, 1976. $6.95, tisements. You may remember Mary Calhoun for her When you find a penny with your birth date on it, Katie John books. you’ve found a lucky penny, and that entitles you to three wishes. What Nobie does with his wishes makes FORMER LIBRARIAN HONORED fun reading and a good story. Bushton—Matilda Volkland, former librarian and Bearymore, story and pictures by Don Freeman, board member of the Bushton Library, was honored at Viking, 1976, $6.95. a coffee by board members, volunteers and Librarian This is another happy story with pleasing illustra­ Barbara Orth. Mrs. Volkland was active in library work tions in the Freeman tradition. A circus bear must at the time library systems were started. Two National find a new act before the next season, which of Geographic bird books were presented to the library course he does. in her honor. The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter, Dela- corte, 1976. $7.95. Nonfiction. This autobiography of a boy in the 1930’s is a story you will remember and smile about. Little Tree learned more in the four years he spent with his Cherokee grand­ parents in Tennessee than most of us ever learn. A very heart warming story. The author has written westerns, one of which was made into a movie. SCKLS BOOK LOOK By Donna Whitson How to Sell Your House For More Than It’s Worth, Jerry Pennington and Fred G. Schultz, Playboy, 1976, The Smoky Hill Trail, narrative by Betty Radcliffe $8.95. Nonfiction. Jackson, published by H. F. Davis Memorial Library, Mr. Pennington is an executive with Levitt and Sons, Colby Community College, Colby, Kan., 1976, $10. the largest builder in the U.S. His advice is practical know­ Nonfiction. how on home marketing. Most of what he tells us can be This is the third in a Western Plains Heritage Series done at little expense but great improvement to your published by Colby Community College. It is the story home. of an old stage route through Northwestern Kansas. The book contains 15 full-color paintings by Thomas Great Aunt Jane’s Cook and Garden Book, Jane L. Currey. Although the binding is not as permanent Birchfield, Lippincott, 1976, $8.95. Nonfiction. as it could be, the book belongs in all Kansas history The author’s style and thinking reminds you of collections. Gladys Taber. This work, however, is composed of southern cooking woven in with a seasonal diary. The Fodor’s Old West, editors Eugene Fodor and Robert reading is fun and the recipes sound delicious! C. Fisher, David McKay, 1976, $9.95. Nonfiction. This Fodor travel guide takes you “where the West was won.” Twenty-two states are included, along with KANSAS BOOKS some interesting background material. Twenty-four pages are devoted specifically to Kansas. A good selec­ Three recent publications are worth considerating tion for most libraries. for your Kansas collection.

Death in Early America, Margaret M. Coffin, Thomas The Flint Hills of Kansas, Dr. Jim Morris, Dept, of Nelson, 1976, $7.95. Nonfiction. Journalism and Mass Communications, Kedzie Hall 104, Mrs. Coffin discusses the history and folklore of cus­ Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan., 66506. $3. toms and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, bur­ A one-time magazine with 25 articles and pictures ials and mourning in America. of Kansas. She includes an index and a bibliography along with some very interesting observations. Up From the Prairie, David K. Strate, Cultural Heri­ tage and Arts Center, Dodge City, Kan., 67801, $4. Ann the Word, Nardi Reeder Campion, Little,Brown, These 20 biographies of early settlers of western Kan­ 1976, $6.95. Nonfiction. sas give us a good picture of an area and its people. Shakerism in America is a story of strong-willed people. Their founder and leader until her death in Kansas, Kenneth S. Davis, Norton, 1976, $8.95. 1784 was Mother Ann Lee. This biography tells her With the aid of several organizations the Norton Com­ story as well as a history of her religion. pany published a series about the states for the 1976 Bi­ centennial celebration. Mr. Davis is a native Kansan who Maske: Thaery, Jack Vances Putnam, 1976. $7.95. gives us a good recounting of the state’s history. Science fiction. Mr. Vance has won two Hugo Awards for his out­ standing science fiction. The story tells of the adventures of young Jubal Droad who lives on a planet in another galaxy. MAYOR MILLER IS TEMPORARY LIBRARIAN IMPORTANT Sylvia—Mrs. Bev Miller, Sylvia mayor, is serving as the INTERLIBRARY LOAN temporary librarian on the two afternoons weekly Sylvia ITEMS Library is open. She succeeds Mrs. Thelma Ward. The library is acquiring a set of bound volumes of the A note is needed on interlibrary loan requests Sylvia Sun from about 1910 to 1935, a popular item to indicate if the search should be continued out with patrons. The issues, neatly organized and preserved, of state. were found in the basement of the home of the late “We have been searching automatically for out- George Yust, Sun publisher, and the binding is being of-state locations for all verified requests sent to done by Otis Webb. It is financed by a $150 donation KIC (Kansas Information Circuit),” said Bert of the Sylvia Civic Club, which founded the library and Newton, head of ILL. “However, extra time and is disbanding after 60 years. expense are involved for the State Library, so Possibly because of the severe weather, the library the State Library now is sending on only those had a record number of checkouts in January. Seventy-one requests pre-coded for out-of-state searching. were recorded for one day. One story hour was attended “We will be happy to search further, beyond by 65 children. Kansas libraries, for you, but need to know if Mrs. Miller, completing her first two-year term as Mayor, that is desired when the original request is sent. filed for a second term, with no opposition on the ballot. “Just add at the bottom of the request form, City projects in progress include sewer improvements, ‘Go beyond KIC.’ ” establishment of a senior citizens’ center and plans for a m new park board. Some interlibrary loan forms applying only to Hutchinson Public Library have been distrib­ NEW LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS uted to other SCKLS libraries by mistake. Con­ sequently some requests are coming in without Winfield—Hal Reed, has been appointed to the Winfield library identification. Please check the forms you Library Board. Attorney Reed succeeds Carolyn Rosecrans. have. If they do not have space for the name of Colwich—Rena Majerus is the first honorary member of your library, please return them and ask for the the Colwich Library Board. Ms. Majerus lives just outside proper ones. Union Township and is not eligible to serve as a regular voting member, but has been an outstanding volunteer and promoter of the library.

PICKUP FOR BOOKS BOUND FOR BINDERY

Libraries wishing to send books to American Binder­ ies for rebinding may have them picked up and returned by the Rotating Book Service van. An American Bind­ eries truck will make pickups and deliveries periodically at Hutchinson. This process will save postage all around. The value of rebinding in book collection mainten­ ance was discussed at the January SCKLS workshop. Cost runs from about $2.95 to $3.45 per book at Am­ erican Binderies and may be reduced ifwolume is heavy enough. Ruth Sanders, Rotating Book Service librarian, asks that books for the bindery be placed in a closed box. Each book should contain binding instructions and a card with author, title and the name of the sending library. LIBRARY PROJECTS IN FULL SWING WANT ADS FROM EL DORADO-

Burrton—The Burrton Library will have a soup and WANTED: Magazines, Vital Speeches, Oct. 15, sandwich supper Saturday, Feb. 19, at 5 p.m. in Burrton 1976; Washington Monthly, Dec., 1976; U.S.News City Building as a moneymaking project for the library and World Report, Dec. 8, 1975; Sports Illustrated, general fund. Nov. 22, 1976. Bradford Memorial Library. Mount Hope—The Mount Hope kindergarten class WANTED: 9 to 12-drawer card catalog, need not comes to the public library every Thursday morning be in good condition, can come after it. Needed by to hear a story read by Librarian Sharon Foltz. Butler County Historical Society Library. A new reading area has been arranged and is getting heavy use. New furnishings include a reading area table LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS and a globe given as a memorial. Winfield—The Winfield Library has begun weekly film Canton—A new film projector has been purchased showings in the recently created Fine Arts Room. The by the Canton Library. former lounge area also contains the fine arts collection, Pretty Prairie—Additional shelves are being made record collection and stereo. for the Pretty Prairie Library by Wilbert Bush, husband A 10x12-foot bright blue and green carpet has been of Librarian Gen Bush. He is remodeling older shelves added to the children’s department. that are too bulky. Board members will paint the shelves McPherson—A fine arts catalog, compiled by the at an all-day meeting and luncheon in February. This McPherson Library, contains color pictures of the col­ will be an “initiation” for a new board member, Mrs. lection of framed art and sculpture available for rental. Letha Schrag. Patrons may make reserves on pictures checked out. Colwich—The Colwich Library will sponsor its fifth annual Craft Fair in February. Prizes will be awarded in several divisions and the art work will be displayed in the library.

The SUN-Newsletter South Central Kansas Library System Nonprofit Organization 901 N. Main St. U. S. POSTAGE Hutchinson, Kan. 67501 * ** PAID Director-Duane F. Johnson PERMIT NO. 50 Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

ERNESTINE GILLILAND, STATE LIBRN. KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 335 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA, KANSAS 66^03 NEW IDEAS AND PROGRAM UPDATE PLANNED FOR B-PH WORKSHOP SCKLS New materials and ideas for library service for blind and physically handicapped patrons will be presented at SUN SCKLS workshops March 29 and 31 and April 1. Judy Neal, director of the program, said latest infor­ mation on availability of cassette players will be pre­ South Central Kansas Library System sented. The whole program, including ways of expanding 901 North Main service, will be reviewed. New posters and pamphlets will Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 be on display. Place of meetings will be Winfield on March 29, Geneseo on March 31 and Valley Center on April 1. March, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 3 Betty Spriggs of Wichita Public Library will attend the Valley Center workshop and Sedgwick County librarians are urged to attend there. FIRST PART STATE AND SYSTEM GRANTS COMING THIS SPRING NEYSA EBERHARD NAMED NEWTON WOMAN OF YEAR The first half of both state and South Central Kansas Library System grants will arrive at local libraries within Neysa Eberhard, librarian at Newton Public Library, the next month. has been named Woman of the Year at Newton. In an The first half of state aid grants will be sent April 1 unusual move for the program sponsored annually by and the second half June 1. The first half of system the Newton Kansan, Neysa was not placed in any one grants will be mailed the second week in March and the category, but was recognized for “her outstanding con­ second in late summer or fall. tributions in education, in business and professional, in According to Allen Gardiner, LSCA (Lib­ community and civic service.” Four other women were rary Services and Construction Act) consul­ named in specific professional categories. tant with the State Library, the $875,000 Neysa has been Newton librarian since 1973, the year state grant will be apportioned among 269 she received her doctorate in education from Oklahoma public libraries and the seven library systems. State University. She earned undergraduate and library The money may be used for books and other science degrees at EmporiaState College. materials, bookbinding, supplies, salaries, mic­ During her tenure at Newton Public, she has instituted rofilm, rent, but may not be used for equip­ two federal grant programs—on needs of youth and out­ ment or capital improvement. reach for senior citizens—CLEP (College Level Examina­ This year 31 public libraries are not eligible to receive tion Program), use of the library for origination of cable state grants, 11 because the local property tax had been TV programs, semin­ reduced, 14 because applications were not submitted, ars and programs in four because the grant was refused and two because many areas. She is a they did not submit 1975 library statistics. member of the Cham­ In 1975, 50 libraries were ineligible because of local ber of Commerce edu­ property tax reduction and 12 refused the grants; in cation committee and 1976, eight were ineligible and 25 refused the grants. other local clubs and committees. Libraries will be required to make two state reports Earlier she taught on their use of the state grants. The first, due Aug. 10, and was librarian at will be on how much of the grants had been spent by Peabody, Marian and the end of July. The second, due March 15, 1978, will Newton High Schools relate how libraries spent the money in each category and was named Kansas of authorized expenditure and how many materials Teacher of the year in were purchased. The money must be spent or encum­ 1963. bered by Dec. 31. Newton Kansan f c 'C L 'W J Neysa Eberhard $ 9 »"?, s r ? 0 . S “SPRING SURPRISES” FOR PRESCHOOLERS CHECK THESE DATES

“Spring Surprises” will be the theme of the preschool March 4 — SCKLS Workshop, spring book reviews demonstration program of Mildred Boyersmith which by David Youngstrom of Denver, Wichita will begin March 21. Librarians may make reservations Public Library, 9 a.m.-l p.m. for the demonstration in their libraries through May by March 14 — SCKLS Executive Committee meeting, contacting Mildred. Hutchinson Public Library, 2 p.m. People in each community who are working with pre­ March 16 —Workshop on Community Information school children in Sunday school, nurseries or other Service, Dodge City Public Library, groups, are especially invited to attend the programs, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. said Mildred. Different ways to tell stories, including March 29, 31, April 1 — SCKLS Workshops, services a “flip and tell” story, will be included in the program. for blind and physically handicapped, 9 a.m.-l p.m. (Story, Page 1) PRESCHOOL WORKSHOP AT V. C. April 17-23 - National Library Week May 11, 12, 13 — Kansas Library Association con­ Valley Center—The Valley Center Library will present ference, Topeka a special preschool workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, June 16-23 — American Library Association annual March 18. The workshop is not a system-sponsored pro­ conference, Detroit ject, but Valley Center invites interested librarians to Nov. 14-20 — Children’s Book Week. attend. Mildred Boyersmith, system coordinator of children’s IT’S TIME TO MAKE PLANS services, will conduct the session on how to select books, FOR NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK how to open a story hour, ways to tell a story other than reading. Kathy Marshall and Barbara Newell have While we like to think every week is library week, planned the workshop. the National Library Association has proclaimed one 6-day period in April as the official recognition period. “TR^C|C^G THE DINOSAURS’ The dates are April 17-23. su m'/r m *er ,ts*^r e a d in g ^pr S g r a m THEME Posters and bookmarks are being distributed to SCKLS 6 , 'p " libraries on the Rotating Book Service van this month. Summer reading groups throughout South Central One poster and the bookmarks are undated and can be Kansas Library System will be “tracking the dinosaurs” used both earlier and later than Library Week, depend­ this summer. Readers will receive as progress charts pic­ ing on your plans. tures of a prehistoric forest containing 10 different din­ Here are a few suggestions for your observance: osaurs, with reading advancement to be marked by a Plan a few posters of your own, listing special services rubber stamp of a dinosaur track. The outside of the of your library, and place them in grocery stores, clean­ picture folder will contain space to list books read. ing establishments and other businesses around town, as Preschool materials also will be provided. An idea well as in the library. Mention new books, magazines, pamphlet will be included in shipments to each library Talking Books, other services you might tend to take for to assist librarians in working out an interesting summer granted, but the public forgets unless reminded regularly. reading program. Contact the local newspaper and radio station, if you have one, for space and time to tell about library services, as a public service. Human interest stories, such as one about your oldest avid reader, special interests of read­ ers, perhaps archeology, pewter, or Kansas history, and similar items will be particularly well received. Promote the library with posters or individual book­ marks or reminders in schools, churches and club meet­ ings. Be sure all library personnel and trustees are in on the promotional activities. They will be a big help. Department stores may cooperate with a window decorated in the motif of National Library Week posters, which have good visual appeal. Your Resume: Key to a Better Job, Leonard Corwen, Arco, 1976, $8. Nonfiction. Getting the right job can be easier if you have some pointers on the correct way to apply and present your­ self. Your resume says more about you than you think. This is a good “how-to” guide to have in your collection.

I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Raccoon, edited SCKLS BOOK LOOK by Eliot Wigginton, Anchor, 1976, $10. Nonfiction. In 1966, a high school English teacher from the By Donna Whitson Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia wanted to involve and inspire his classes with a special project. That Colorado Without Mountains, Harold Hamil, Lowell, was the beginning of Foxfire. 1976, $10.95. Nonfiction. Three books have been published from the project, This is the second father-son effort of Harold and this one to commemorate the Bicentennial. Students James Hamil. The first was their beautiful Farmland throughout the country conducted living history inter­ U.S.A. views with local citizens. Included are the experiences Harold Hamil calls his book a High Plains memoir. He of an Eskimo teacher, a Texas cowboy, a Navajo woman was born near Sterling, Colo., in 1906 and grew up in the and 35 others. The book speaks of values to be preserved ranching country of that area. His son, James, illustrated and the young who are working to save them. his memoirs. The Incredible Dr. Matrix, Martin Gardner, Scribner’s, The Great International Disaster Book, James Cornell, 1976, $8.95. Nonfiction. Scribner’s, 1976, $12.50. Nonfiction. Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix is considered the world’s Cornell has divided all the great disasters in history leading numerologist. That is, he is an authority on into natural and man-made categories. They are then number and language curiosities. Dr. Matrix is the one further divided into specific types—earthquakes, torn­ who discovered and described all the number and letter adoes, fires, etc. Under each type the author lists the coincidences related to the Lincoln and Kennedy assassi­ “ten worst.” He includes a bibliography and an index. nations. The man and his theories are amazing. The book includes some puzzles (and their answers). Take It Off! Robert S. Holzman, Crowell, 1977, $4.95 (paper). Nonfiction. The Summer at Raven’s Roost, Elissa Grandower, Subtitled “More Than 1,000 Tax Deductions Most Doubleday, 1976, $7.95. Fiction—Gothic. People Overlook,” this is a timely work. Author Holzman Heather Magness, appropriately named for a Gothic arranges his information alphabetically with “see also” heroine, journeys across the country to become a sum­ references to guide you to other entries. mer governess to her cousin’s spoiled child. Of course she has been in love with the cousin’s husband since Farm Journal’s Homemade Snacks, Nell B. Nichols, childhood. A mysterious fire, a murder and a prowler Doubleday, 1976, $7.95. Nonfiction. add to the suspense. All ends well as any good Gothic Mrs. Nichols, considered a leading authority on Am­ should. erican cooking, is a Kansas State University graduate. Her snack recipes are aimed at achieving sound nutrition Gallows Way, Daoma Winston, Simon and Schuster, even if you have to eat on the run or just enjoy some 1976, $8.95. Fiction. goodies for family munching. A love story of the South just before the Civil War is basically the fabric of Mrs. Winston’s newest novel. A Grace Hartley’s Southern Cookbook, Grace Hartley, beautiful girl, a handsome, strong-willed man, a planta­ Doubleday, 1976, $8.95. Nonfiction. tion and sturdy family ties add to the plot. The author Here is another timely cookbook for your collection. combines mystery and romance for light reading pleas- Mrs. Hartley served as food editor for the Atlanta Jour­ sure. nal for more than 40 years. Her recipes come from good cooks all over the South. Regional dishes and local pro­ ducts are included in the recipes. Ummm—good! Are You in the House Alone? Richard Peck, Viking, Ghosts of the Wild West, Bruce and Nancy Roberts, 1976, $6.95. Fiction—Young adult. Doubleday, 1976, $5.95. Gail Osburn is a high school student who lives with Who doesn’t like a good ghost story, especially if it her parents in a quiet Connecticut suburban community. has some historical facts to back it up? The authors She dates Steve Pastonini and her best friend is dating have collected 12 stories from western lore involving Phil Lawver. The Lawyers are the community’s oldest famous characters and unknowns in exciting tales. and wealthiest family. Gail receives threatening obscene Nancy Roberts wrote the text and her husband, an notes from an unknown sender. Then one night, as she award-winning photographer, did the pictures. is babysitting, she is raped. The unknown threatener turns out to be Phil Lawver. What follows is sad, but Stories from a Snowy Meadow, by Carla Stevens, maybe too often true. A good story. Seabury, 1976, $6.95. Mr. Peck will present a workshop for South Central A mouse, a mole and a shrew were neighbors and Kansas Library System in November. good friends also. Together they make a lovely quilt and decide to give it to Vole, a dear neighbor who is quite old. Before the winter is over the three friends are saddened to learn of the death of Vole. A warm story with a good presentation of the acceptance of death.

Wild Mouse, Irene Brady, Scribner’s, 1976, $5.95. This book might be titled the diary of a mouse. It is a beautifully told story of a mouse the author finds in her kitchen. The mouse soon produces a family. The author gives a day-by-day account of the events. The text is accompanied by soft brown and white illus­ trations.

Danbury’s Burning, Anne Grant, Henry Z. Walck, Little Gray Neck, a Russian folktale retold by James Inc. (David McKay), 1976, $7.95. Riordan and Eileen Colwell, Addison-Wesley, 1976, In 1777, when Sybil Ludington was 16 years old, $6.50. she rode 40 miles through the night to warn her neigh­ Gray Neck is a young duck who is caught by a fox bors that British troops were advancing toward the and hurt when she tries to escape. Her attempt is suc­ Connecticut community. The story of Sybil and her cessful, but she is not well enough to fly South when family is told in rhythmic prose and soft illustrations. the others leave. Before she has to endure much of the This picture book also explores the problems and joys harsh winter she is rescued by a kindly grandfather and of being the oldest of eight children. taken to safety. Caroline Sharpe’s illustrations are lovely.

Coyote the Trickster, retold by Gail Robinson and A Pictorial Life Story of Misty, Marguerite Henry, Douglass Hill, Crane-Russak (Scribner’s), 1976, $6.95. Rand McNally, 1976, $5.95. North American Indian tribes have a rich heritage of All of us who have loved Misty of Chincoteague will legends. Most have in their stories characters who were enjoy hearing the true story of how Marguerite Henry powerful beings in animal form. In most cases the coy­ came to own the little pony. The story, complete with ote or raven was the sly trickster. This is a collection photographs, tells of Misty and the other ponies of of 12 stories from different tribes. They reflect insights Assateague Island off the coast of Maryland and into human nature and give us a lesson in the gentle Virginia. Indian way of teaching. A nice collection.

Simple Gifts, Jane Yolen, Viking, 1976, $6.95. Mrs. Yolen tells the story of the Shakers for children and young people. She presents the history and events about this special group of Americans and their contri­ butions to our heritage in a sympathetic and under­ standing way. TOP AWARDS ANNOUNCED VALENTINE’S DAY OPEN HOUSE

The 1977 recipients of Newbery and Caldecott Geneseo—A large number of patrons attended the sec­ Medals for distinguished children’s literature have been ond annual Valentine’s Day open house at Geneseo Lib­ announced by the Children’s Services Division of Am­ rary last month. erican Library Association. On display were Talking Book machines and related The Newbery Medal for the most distinguished con­ materials, large print books and a collection of large tribution to literature for children will go to Mildred print Readers Digest magazines donated by a patron. D. Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The new filmstrip projector and Story Time materials published by Dial. also were shown. Several old books were sold and many Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of Ashanti to Zulu: books and other materials were checked out. In addi­ African Traditions, by Margaret Musgrove, also published tion, Friends of the Library donated cookies for the by Dial, are recipients of the Caldecott Medal for the Valentine-decorated refreshment table. most distinguished picture book for children. The Dillons also received the 1976 Caldecott Medal for Why NEW LIBRARIANS, BOARD MEMBERS Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, marking the first time the Caldecott Medal has been awarded in successive Medicine Lodge—Mary Wing, retired high school lib­ years to the same illustrator. rarian, has been named librarian at Medicine Lodge to Honor books for 1977 are: Newbery—A String in the succeed Lucy Mae Shippy, librarian the past eight years. Harp, by Nancy Bond, Atheneum, and Abel’s Island, by Rosalie Armstrong is the new assistant. William Steig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Caldecott— El Dorado—Dorothy Stagner has joined the staff of Fish for Supper, by M.B. Goffstein, Dial; The Contest, Bradford Memorial Library to assist in circulation and An Armenian Folktale, adapt, and illus. by Nonny reference. Mrs. Stagner was on the staff of Salina Lib­ Hogrogian, Greenwillow, div. of Morrow; The Golem: rary for three years and has worked in libraries at a Jewish Legend, written and illus. by Beverly Brodsky Mulvane and St. Francis. Her husband, Rev. Giles Stagner, McDermott, Lippincott; Hawk, I’m Your Brother, illus. is pastor of the United Methodist Churches at Towanda by Peter Parnall, written by Byrd Baylor, Scribner’s; and Benton. The Amazing Bone, by William Steig, Farrar, Straus and Whitewater—Edith Stufflebeam is a new board mem­ Giroux. ber for the Whitewater Library. Charlene Foster has Medals will be presented to the winners at the New- become an honorary board member. New trustee repres­ bery-Caldecott Awards Banquet during ALA’s annual entative is Crystal Dana. conference in Detroit in June. Halstead—New Halstead Library board members are Alice Decker and Walton Goode, replacing Fern Grove “RELUCTANT DRAGON” WILL TRAVEL and Aaron Kaufman.

A new, 15-minute puppet play, “The Reluctant NEW CAPOTE BOOK DELAYED Dragon,” is ready for loan to system library children’s departments. It is a six-character show with an appeal­ A book a number of patrons are asking about, ing dragon as the hero. A tape of dialog accompanies “Answered Prayers,” by Truman Capote, will not be the show. published until late fall, according to word from the publisher. The book has been serialized in Esquire Maga­ zine over a lengthy period.

DON'T BE A DELINQUENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR AT LIBRARY FILM BORROWER

Libraries using films from the State Film Center McPherson—In cooperation with the McPherson Arts are asked to be prompt in returning them. We all know that delays in returning materials inconve­ Council and the Chamber of Commerce, the McPherson nience the next guy. Public Library is displaying a monthly community cal­ endar. Then, too, you might be the next guy next time. This is a response to need for citizens to keep track of events in the community, said Librarian Margaret Spangler. CHILDREN’S LIT COURSES AT HAYS directed by Mrs. Mary Mingenback of McPherson. Charles D. Johnson and Dr. J. Richard Johnson of Five workshops and conferences are planned by Fort McPherson are sharing the cost of microfilming the Hays State College this summer. They are: Marquette Tribune. When the project is completed, the McPherson Lib­ June 13-17 — Conference on literature for children rary will have on microfilm, from the 1800’s on, The and youth. Marquette Tribune, Canton Pilot, Inman Review, June 20-24 — Workshop: The fantasies of L. Frank Moundridge Journal, McPherson Sentinel and McPherson Baum. County News. The Lindsborg News-Record already is on June 27-July 1 — Storytelling workshop with microfilm and available at the Bethany College Library, Augusta Baker. Creative dramatics Lindsborg. workshop with Rita Borsari. July 4-8 — Early childhood workshop with Rita Borsari. BROWNIES LEARN PUPPETRY BOOK NEEDED The children’s department of Hutchinson Public Library is conducting Saturday morning puppetry WANTED: The Book of Bells, by S. Coleman, workshops for groups of Brownie Scouts as work to­ John Day Co., N.Y.; will pay reasonable fee, Bradford ward a merit badge. Each Saturday for six weeks, Memorial Library, El Dorado. groups of 30 Brownies will learn the elementary pro­ cedures for making puppets and staging puppet shows. MC PHERSON NEWSPAPERS ON FILM The workshops are conducted by Junivee Black, chil­ McPherson—The McPherson Library has received gen­ dren’s librarian, and Pam Ratzlaff. erous gifts to insure having all newspapers in McPherson County on microfilm. Donors are Dick Hess, McPherson Library board member, and the Mingenback Foundation,

U. s. POSTAGE The SUN-Newsletter PAID South Central Kansas Library System PERMIT NO. 50 901 N. Main St. Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 Hutchinson, Kan. 67501 ' *** Director-Duane F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

ERNESTINE GILLILAND, STATE LIBRN. KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 535 KANSAS AVENUE -yQPBKA* KANSAS 6&6Q3 STATE LIBRARY JUL 2 619?^ CAROLINE BAUER TO LEAD WORKSHOPS APRIL 28, 29 SCKLS “A highlight of the workshop year” is promised this month when Caroline Bauer of the University of Oregon SUN school of librarianship comes to Kansas. I She will appear in Hutchinson Thursday, South Central Kansas Library System April 28. The workshop will be in Borger 901 North Main Hall of Trinity United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 17th and Main, to accommodate the ex­ pected large crowd. The second workshop will be at Bradford April, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 4 Memorial Library, El Dorado, Friday, April 29. Time for both will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. AS YOU WERE-BOOK PICK-UP BACK AT BUSINESS OFFICE Mrs. Bauer, a small, dynamic woman, received a B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College, master of library Books for South Central Kansas System libraries again science degree from Columbia University and doctorate will be available for pick-up at the Business Office in the in speech (television and radio) from the University of main Hutchinson Library building, Doris Mould, business Oregon. She teaches children’s literature, young adult manager, said. services, story-telling, audio­ It was thought earlier they would be placed on shelves visual materials and children’s at the new Processing Center, 2000 North Jackson, but services at Oregon University. this has proved inconvenient. The old process of placing In 1973-74 she took a year’s them, in Doris’ office has been reinstated. leave to produce and teach three courses in her field for SUMMER READING MATERIALS Oregon Educational Public DISTRIBUTED AT WORKSHOP Broadcasting System. She has many publications to her credit and has served as chil­ Materials for the Summer Reading Program will be dren’s librarian in several libraries. ready for distribution at the April workshops on chil­ She has presided at “Caroline’s Corner,” a children’s dren’s services. These will be April 28, Hutchinson, story program, on public TV, sponsored by the Oregon and April 29, El Dorado. Library Association and on an Aspen, Colo., radio sta­ tion. She also has been a visiting storyteller at branches of the New York Public Library. She has served on many American Library Associa­ tion and literature committees. Other interests include cooking, skiing, swimming, kayaking and skating. She and her husband and 8-year old daughter live in Tigard, Ore.

LONG WAIT

An old gentleman at Hutchinson Public Library has no idea of the popularity of “Roots,” Alex Haley’s best seller. When told there was a waiting list, he headed for an easy chair. “I’ll just sit down and wait,” he said. Alas, HPL is circulating 12 copies of the 587-page book and had 68 reserves on its pre-Easter list.

J M / i _ $ j l f f LIBRARY WEEK OBSERVATIONS MARK YOUR CALENDAR

McPherson—McPherson Library has planned special April 11—Executive Committee meeting, Hutchinson activities to celebrate both National Library Week and Public Library, 2 p.m. the library’s fifth year anniversary in its new building. April 17-23—National Library Week Throughout April 18-23, patrons will receive book April 28, 29—Workshops on children’s Services— bags or book marks and be invited to special events: April 28, Hutchinson; April 29, El Dorado, Monday, review of Margaret Truman’s “Women of 9 a.m.-l p.m. Courage,” by Mrs. O.D. Middleton, Wichita; Tuesday, May 11, 12, 13—Kansas Library Association confer­ film festival and craft demonstration by Mrs. Marvin ence, Topeka. Riddell; Wednesday, Artist Bob Bliss doing caricatures; June 16-23—American Library Association annual Thursday, Library’s Happy Bookers, Bev Oberly and conference, Detroit. Bev Stockham, presenting Reviews and Trends in Read­ Nov. 14-20—Children’s Book Week. ing; Friday, travelog by Carrie Mugler; Saturday, chil­ dren’s puppet show by Jeff Frazier. GENEALOGY WORKSHOPS El Dorado—Library Week will be announced in El Dor­ COMING LAST OF MAY ado by a commercial billboard on East Central, donated for a month’s use, with the poster, localized for Bradford Genealogy, the country’s favorite new pursuit, will Memorial Library, bought by Friends of the Library. be the topic of the May workshop. Allen Gardiner of The week will be proclaimed by the mayor. Each com­ the State Library will lead two sessions—at Newton mission member will receive a desk style name plate to May 26 and at Hutchinson May 27. The usual work­ which is attached a pipe cleaner man carrying a sign for shop hours, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will prevail. National Library Week. Friends of the Library also are Gardiner has studied, searched and written about tentatively planning a tea to start the week. genealogy for several years. Partridge—The Partridge Library will have an open He also will conduct two five-hour sessions, April 16 house April 18 to acquaint residents of the town and and May 7, at Hutchinson Public Library. The first ses­ surrounding area of new uses and hours of the library. sion is for beginners, the second for advanced researchers.

YOU NOTICED!

Several librarians have commented on the new Sun logo on Page 1. Said Brian Beattie, El Dorado librarian, “It really looks good. I like the way the address jumps out at you.”

ARLINGTON ACTIVITIES ACCELERATE

In a brand new newsletter, Arlington Library announ­ ces its regular services and special programs. Programs for senior citizens include a review of “Chaff in the Wind” by Elizabeth Steele, performance by the Turon Kitchen Band and a slide program by Jackie Albright. The main showcase will have an Easter display for April, exhibit by Westarling Extension Unit in May and Clara Healzer’s shell collection in June. In addition a Library Week open house is planned for April 20. School children have been invited to visit during the morning hours. “The First Three Years of Life,” Burton L. White, Prentice Hall, 1976, 285 pages, $10. Based on extensive observation and research, this book is a guide to emotional, physical and intellectual development during the first three years of life. It con­ tains special insight into evaluating first attempts at showing emotions and includes advice on spacing of children, day-care centers and best toys to buy.

“Mortal Lessons,” Richard Selzer, Simon and Schuster, 1976, 219 pages, $7.95. A tour of the operating room is conducted by a sur­ geon with a poetic turn. Parts of the human body are “On Your Own,” Kathy Matthews, Random House, described as they might appear to a layman and the mar­ 1976, 211 pages, $10. vel of the working parts is told. It’s enlightening, amusing This is a whimsical guide to finding jobs you may and a little gory. never have known existed. They require little or no specialized training and usually can be fit into odd “Voyage,*. Sterling Hayden, Putnam, 1976, 700 pages, hours and schedules. Included are the jobs of clown, $15. caterer, including making birthday cakes for college This exciting novel of 1896 is made up of several students away from home on order from relatives, themes, the maiden voyage of a ship from Maine around breeding earthworms, running a lemonade stand, ex­ the Horn to San Francisco, a pleasure yacht and the gen­ otic dancing, yacht designing (yacht designing?) eral labor movement of the time. The reader becomes well acquainted with the crew and the hardships and “How To Present and Serve Food Attractively,” joys of the sea. Lillian Langseth-Christenser, Doubleday, 1976,262 pages, $9.95. “Winners and Losers,” Gloria Emerson, Random With so many paper and foil cartons and brown House, 1976, 406 pages, $10. paper bags around, one sometimes forgets the impor­ A former Saigon reporter for the New York Times tance of presentation and attractiveness of food. Other explains what Vietnam meant to that country and to things are different from “the olden days” too — there the U.S. in terms of the people involved. It’s generally is a scarcity of kitchen and serving help, time and space. regarded as one of the most vivid and comprehensive So, you consider the pared down menu preferences of books on this subject. most people, find the most attractive new, simple uten­ sils and dishes, linens, etc., or the most attractive old ones and learn the art of presenting food with a flour­ ish. The author, world-famous authority, has many hints, including a last chapter on how to handle serv­ ing and clearing of a sit-down meal with a minimum of fuss. Tempting menus and recipes also.

“Confident Entertaining,” Carolyn Shealy Self, Nel­ son, 1976, 187 pages, $6.95. Entertaining from a different angle is presented in this book by the wife of a Baptist pastor from Atlanta, Ga. She agrees that the warmth and care of the host and hostess is the most important part of entertaining. She “Mama,” Lee Bennett Hopkins, Knopf, 1977. $5.95. includes menus suitable for large and small group occa­ (Gr. 5-7) sions, invitation forms, hints on best use of the space Mama has quite a struggle making a home for her two you have and how to get the cooperation of kids, cats sons and keeping them fed and clothed. Sometimes she and dogs while entertaining. Recipes included. even resorts to stealing. Her story is narrated from the viewpoint of a young son. “The Wooden People,” Myra Papemy, Little, Brown, they send for a sitter from the agency who turns out to 1976, $6.95. (Gr. 5-7) be Mrs. Wolf. Sinister clues soon show the true nature It was one move after another for the Stein family of the sitter and the piglets move swiftly to foil her plans. with the father in endless pursuit for a bigger store to own and the children near rebellion. Instead of making “The Amazing Bone.” William Steig, Farrar, 1976, friends, Freddy turns to puppetry which in the end in­ $7.95. (Gr. 4-8) volves and unites the whole family. One bright, spring day, Pearl, a little pig, discovers a bone that can talk. Pearl and the bone immediately take “Lizard Music,” D. Manus Pinkwater, Dodd, Mead, a liking to each other. Soon the bone is in Pearl’s purse 1976, $4.95. (Gr. 4-6) and they are on the way home. Before they reach home, Left on his own with parents on a vacation and older however, the bone rescues Pearl from a trio of robbers sister off with her hippie friends, 11-year old Victor be­ and a fox bent on eating her. comes involved in watching late night television shows. On an unlisted late show he sees the first of the intelli­ “Child of the Owl,” Laurence Yep, Harper and Row, gent lizards from a secret community and learns of a 1977, PLB $5.79. (Gr. 5-8) little known invasion from outer space. Twelve-year old Casey is sent to live with Paw Paw (grandmother) in San Francisco’s Chinatown after her “Mr. and Mrs. Pig’s Evening Out,” Mary Rayner, gambler father is badly beaten and ends up in the hos­ Atheneum, 1976, PLB $7.95. (Gr. 4-8) pital. From her Paw Paw Casey learns to understand When Mr. and Mrs. Pig decide to have an evening out herself and her heritage.

CHECKED OUT YOUR CLASSICS LATELY?

. . . do they read Shakespeare,” asked the Someone muttered that it’s more practical savage as they walked on their way to the for the library to have 50 copies of Zane Grey bio-chemical laboratories past the school and Agatha Christie than five copies of some library. “Certainly not, "said the head mis­ musty classic because nobody reads classics tress, blushing. “Our libraries . . . contain anymore. ’Tain’t so. only books o f reference. I f our young Classic and important modern literature, being what people need distraction, they can get it at it is, will be read more often and more consistently the feelies. We don’t encourage them to through the years than will the lighter forms of fiction. indulge in solitary amusements.” Besides being the most educational and mind-expanding of literature, the classic’s long-term worth makes it the -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" better investment of your library’s book dollar. The lib­ rary would be barren without the sparkle of all forms of It’s interesting that we’ve had more than the usual classics. small amount of discussion lately about the importance Need some guidance for evaluation and selection in of classic literature in the public library. the field of literature? Try these. Every library should No one questions the value of classic literature, but own them: then it’s best not to try to pin a librarian down about “The Reader’s Adviser, a Layman’s Guide to how actively the library seeks to keep good, fresh (not Literature,” 12th Ed., 1974, Sarah L. Prakken, ed., all classics come on yellowed paper, with tiny print and Xerox, $23.50. musty odor) editions available to the public. How long “How To Read a Book,” Mortimer Adler and Charles has it been since your library was surveyed to see what Van Doren, Simon and Schuster, 1972, $9.95. of the world’s best literature is available? Just because it’s in the card catalog doesn’t mean it’s still available. “Living with Books: the Art of Book Selection,” And how inviting is your edition? Helen E. Haines, Columbia Univ. Press, 2nd ed, 1950, $15. THE REEL THING Walton—Two new Walton Library board members by Sondra Koontz are Mrs. Karen Runco, succeeding Vonnie Riffel, and State Film Center Mrs. Mary Higgins, in the position of Charlotte Sauerwein. Mrs. Riffel and Mrs. Sauerwein moved out We now own several new films for and about children. of town. “The Judge,” (5 min. color) —Five prisoners warn a Haysville—Members of the board for the newly form­ judge of the hairy-tailed beast that is coming his way. ing Haysville Library are: Mrs. Ruth Barnett, chairman; When the judge ignores their warnings, the beast gobbles Gary Sutton, vice chairman; Mrs. Dorothy Holt, secre­ tary; Mrs. Cindy Taylor, treasurer; Mrs. Betty Nutter, him up. “The Bridge of Adam Rush.” (47 min. color) -This trustee representative; Phil Bentley, Larry Ricketts and story of early life in America shows how love and res­ Mayor Bob Schrock. pect develop between a man and a boy as they work Partridge—New board members at the Partridge Lib­ against time to build a bridge. rary are: Connie Miller, succeeding Patty Brawner, and “Rookie of the Year” (47 min. color) —This is the Gladys Miller, succeeding Gloria Grubbs. Both retiring story of a 12-year old girl’s attempt to play baseball in members have taken full-time jobs. an all-boy’s Little League. “The Judge’’ can be used with primary and elementary COLWICH LIBRARY SERVES HOMEBOUND children. The other two films are for elementary and junior high children. Both “The Bridge of Adam Rush’* Colwich—The Colwich Library board has voted to and “Rookie of the Year” are on the 1977 Notable initiate a book borrowing service for shut-ins. A home- Children’s Film List published by American Library bound person or a friend may call the library and ask Association. for delivery of specific books and magazines. Any adult interested in children can put the next two The Colwich Library will mark National Library Week films to use: with a mini-film festival Saturday afternoon, April 23, “Child Abuse: Cradle of Violence” (20 min. color) — mainly for young people, but all are welcome. Interviews with former child abusers and other parents Spring story hour sessions for pre-kindergarten young­ who have learned how to cope with stressful situations. sters began the last of March. They will continue through Encourages classes on parenting and tells what to do May 10. when stress becomes unbearable. “The Development of Feelings in Children” (45 min. NEW COPIER FOR MULVANE color) —Helps parents deal with the feelings that their children develop and urges parents to share openly Mulvane—The Mulvane Library has a new 3M 209 their feelings with the children. copier, which does multiple copies instead of singles as the old one did. Reminders: Always rewind films onto the same reel they came on. Films must be returned the day after they are shown. We have compiled a list of our films that could be used and easily understood by deaf people. If you want a free copy, let us know. Deaf Awareness Week is in May this year.

NEW LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS

Turon—Mrs. Wilma Barker has been named to the Turon Library board to replace Eileen Joms, who re­ signed to become librarian. Another new board member is Mrs. Sue Johnston, succeeding Mrs. Sally Vernon, who has a new adopted baby boy. LANDSCAPING PROJECT AT ARGONIA WORKSHOP ON NEW COPYRIGHT LAW

Argonia—The Dixon Township Library here will ben­ A workshop on the new revisions of the copyright efit from a landscaping project of the local federated law will be sponsored by Hutchinson Public Library women’s club. New trees will be added to the library and Kennedy Library of Hutchinson Community lawn to replace three old Chinese elms removed last College at the Kennedy Library April 22. winter. The workshop will be conducted by Hugh Clark, A new globe and stand have been purchased for the native of Holton, Kan., now copyright examiner with library. the Library of Congress. The board is making plans for the spring pre-school Librarians and educators in the Hutchinson area are story hour and is considering revisions in by-laws. invited to attend. Time of the workshop will be announced later. MAGAZINE RACK FOR SALE GOODBYE, GOOD LUCK Metal magazine rack, 59V2 inches wide, 15 inches deep, 43 inches tall, $25. Contact Elizabeth Belknap, Donna Whitson, SCKLS personnel development librarian, Inman Library, 585-2122 or 585-6806. coordinator, resigned in March to move to Casper, Wyo., with her husband, Tom, who has a new job CHILDREN BRING USED TOYS there in extension service for youth. Donna worked with the Rotating Book Service, workshops, and as a Partridge—The Partridge Library has a new deacon’s consultant for member libraries the past three years. bench toy box furnished with used toys brought by Story Hour children. The toys keep children occupied before Story Hour and while their mothers look for books.

Nonprofit Organization The SUN-Newsletter U. S. POSTAGE South Central Kansas Library System PAID 901 N. Main St. PERMIT NO. 50 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 . *** Director-Duane F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

ERNSSTINE GILLILAND, STATE LIBRN. KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 535 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA, KANSAS 66603 s AiWwl>iifSjf)PS SCKIS Valuable continuing education workshops in the lib­ rary field will be offered at colleges and universities this summer. SUN Emporia State College will present at the Hutchinson Board of Education Administrative Center June 29 and 30 the course, Programming for the School Media South Central Kansas Library System Center. Students may receive two hours of graduate cred­ 901 North Main it at $22 per credit hour. Each student will select an area Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 of the curriculum and develop a major unit of study util­ izing a multi-media approach. The workshop also will be given at Russell July 13 and 14, and Manhattan Aug. 1,2. Emporia State’s May Massee Workshop is scheduled May, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 5 on the campus June 13-17, with authors, Crystal Thrasher, Lillie D. Chaffin, Richard Peck, Jean Karl. NEW TOOLS LAUNCHED Hays State College plans its seventh conference on Lit­ IN BEST SELLER BATTLE erature for Youth and Children June 13-17, with authors, Karla Kuskin, Peggy Parish, Richard Peck, Dr. Leland B. South Central Kansas Libraries are using a couple of Jacobs, Ed Emberly and Alberta Wilson Constant, Horn­ new procedures in the ongoing Battle of the Best Sellers book editor, Ethel L. Heins, and Denny Dey, profession­ or How to Keep a Step (Inch?) Ahead of Your Readers. al storyteller. Twelve libraries have enrolled in the automatic order­ ing service from Gordon’s in Denver. Books on Publish­ er’s Weekly Candidates’ List are sent per their order, are processed and distributed immediately. These are PW predictions for the Best Seller list. This has meant 11 books in the past six weeks. Occasionally the forecast will go awry, but, if promotion and portents come through, these books will be on the Best Seller List later in the year. And the SCKLS participating libraries will have them. Lindsborg is the latest library to sign up for the service. Others are: Andover, Anthony, Belle Plaine, Caldwell, Derby, Goddard, Halstead, Mc­ Pherson, Medicine Lodge, Newton and Sterling. In addition, Gordon’s is sending the Technical Process­ ing Center six copies of each book which will be popular in the opinion of their resident experts. Not necessarily best sellers, these books include craft, self-improvement, historical and other types of books. This will permit faster filling of orders received at the Technical Processing Center. “Libraries Are Something Else,” proclaims a billboard on SUMMER READING PROGRAM El Dorado’s busy Central Avenue. Librarian Brian Beattie and BOOKMARKS WILL BE MAILED Sara Rhyne, head of the circulation department, pose in front of the sign. It cost Friends of the Library a total of $46 ($16 for the sign from Upstart Library Supplies, $20 installation Bookmarks, which will complete the supply of mat­ fee and $10 for the individualized “Visit Bradford Memorial” erial for the Dinosaur Summer Reading Program, will line). The rental for six weeks was donated and viewing will be mailed to system libraries soon. Other materials extend well past National Library Week. /w ere distributed at the April workshops.

A j CALENDAR REMINDER Section and interest groups include children’s, tech­ nical processing, reference, adult services, special, col­ May 9 — SCKLS Executive Committee, Hutchinson lege and university libraries. A new section this year Library, 2 p.m. will be one on government documents. In addition, May 11, 12, 13 - Kansas Library Association confer­ books and library supplies will be displayed in the ex­ ence, Topeka. hibitors’ section. May 26 — SCKLS Workshop on genealogy, Newton Special events include: The KLA banquet Thursday Library, 9 a.m.-l p.m. evening, “An Evening at the Theatre;” Bookman’s Lun­ May 27 - SCKLS Workshop on genealogy, Hutchinson cheon, Friday, “The Lighter Side of Kansas History,” Library, 9 a.m.-l p.m. by Robert W. Richmond, deputy director Kansas State June 16-23 — American Library Association annual Historical Society; College and University Section lun­ conference, Detroit. cheon, Thursday, a talk on the library’s role in provid­ Nov. 14-20 — Children’s Book Week. ing access to information, by Gordon R. Williams, director of the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago; INFORMATION, FUN IN STORE Resources and Technical Services Section breakfast, FOR ANNUAL KLA CONFERENCE Friday, talk on the impact of closing the card catalog, by David Remington, Library of Congress. New information and ideas in many areas of library FRIENDS GROUP FORMING work will be presented in two days of meetings at the annual Kansas Library Association conference in Colwich—“Civic-minded” persons are invited to con­ Topeka Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13. tribute time and energy to the newly forming Friends of the Library group at Colwich.

NOBEL NOMINEES WHO DIDN’T WIN

(From The Book of Lists, by David Walleschinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace, Morrow, 1977, 484 pages, $10.95) All of these writers were officially nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, and each and every one was voted down by the Swedish Academy. Instead, between 1901 and 1976, the prize was given to such geniuses as Sully Prudhomme, Bjomson, Echegaray, Carducci, Eucken, Heidenstam, Spitteler, Reymont, Karlfeldt, Bunin, Sillanpaa, Jensen, Laxness, Quasimodo, Seferis, E. Johnson and H. E. Martinson. Meanwhile the losers included: Leo Tolstoy, Herbert Spencer, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Rainer Marie Rilke, George Meredith, Henry James, Algernon Swinburne, Georg Brandes, August Strindberg Maksim Gorky, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Valery, Sean O’Casey, Marcel Proust, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Theodore Dreiser, Benedetto Croce, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. G. Wells, Willa Cather, W. Somerset Maugham, Mao Tse-Tung. Considering President Carter and the popularity of peanuts as food (eight pounds per person per year), not a lot is known about the “goober pea.” Actually it is a pea, not a nut. This book fills that void, with history, commercial worth, instructions for growing your own as an indoor plant, nutrition and recipes. Attractive and informative.

Advanced Guide to Hydroponics, James Sholto Douglas, Drake, 1976, 325 pages, $12.95. Beginning with elementary information on soilless cultivation, this book plunges into techniques, diagrams and instructions on establishing plants in a firm, No Mountains in the Way, photographs by James layer of material and providing the roots with food in Enyeart, Terry Evans, Larry Schwarm, University of water. It can be an economical and disease-controlled Kansas Museum of Art, unpaged, 1975, $5. method of cultivation, says the book. This little book of black and white Kansas photo­ graphs will grab many natives. It is the work of three Green Winter, Celebrations of Old Age, Elise Maclay, Sunflower State photographers who contribute pic­ Reader’s Digest Press, 1977, 124 pages, $7.95. tures from their individual viewpoints. This is a gentle book of poems about situations of Terry Evans concentrates on the “strength, straight­ old age. “I Said No Today,” marvels one poem. The forwardness and calm of rural Kansas people,” Enyeart speaker refers to sitting with grandchildren. on architecture, from brick and stone to tin and tar In another, the musing goes, “I used to hate it so/ paper, and Larry Schwarm on “symbols” found on the When a new wrinkle appeared/Creasing my forehead/ landscape, including mailbox holders and signs painted Dragging down my mouth/Marring my cheek .... Am on barns. I reconciled? /Has the deterioration slowed? /No, I need The title comes from a story by William Inge about a new glasses.” Minnesota woman, vacationing in the lush Massachusetts Berkshires who was asked what she thought about the Wheat Country, Grant Heilman, Stephen Greene Press, scenery. “There isn’t any,” she said. “The mountains 1977, 110 pages, $22.50. get in the way.” More than 100 photographs and an informative text give you the story of wheat and its processing to become The Unretouched Woman, Eve Arnold, Knopf, 1976, bread on the table. Man seems dwarfed by the size of the unpaged, $9.95. equipment, the expanse of the areas, the bulk of storage Another book of photographs (44 color, 107 black and transport facilities. Yet the human side of the wheat and white), this sturdy, oversize paperback carries a story is included too. well-written text that points up the variance in the con­ Aspects of the total effect are the battle with the dition of women over the world. Miss Arnold has selec­ weather and insects, the grain itself, the harvest pace, ted pictures of women from her assignments through trading and transport and the politics of wheat. the years. They show Arabian women in purdah, women with starving babies in Africa, a nun ironing a cardinal’s Breakdown, N. S. Sutherland, Stein and Day, 1977, robes in the Vatican, women in jewels and furs, women 248 pages, $ 10. in Spain and Cuba. Pictures of the famous also are un­ A cheerful, highly scheduled psychologist of 41 be­ retouched. Joan Crawford in encased in facial masks comes a depressed, hopeless, obsessively jealous patient preparing for a public appearance. Marilyn Monroe in this personal account. He is able to trace his illness attends a promotion. Mamie Eisenhower gazes at her­ through treatment to a state of quietness, if not happi­ self in a fun house mirror. ness. He also reviews various types of treatment bolstered The First American Peanut Growing Book, Kathy by cases observed in hospitals. He covers Freud, the Mandry, Subsistence Press/Random House, 1976, psychoanalysts, behavior therapists, group encounter, 79 pages, $7.95. drug treatment. Choice of treatment depends on the individual patient, he says, and gives 17 rules for seek­ ing psychiatric help. Gentle Asylum, Isabelle Andersen, Seabury, 1977, Alan and the Animal Kingdom, Isabelle Holland, 168, $8.95. Lippincott, 1977, $6.95. (Gr. 4-7) The word, “gentle,” applies to the text of this ob­ Alan and his kingdom (a dog, a cat, a white rat, a viously composite first-hand account of working in a hamster and some gerbils) have been living in his great mental institution. aunt’s apartment when she dies of a heart attack. Cer­ The erratic behavior of the patients is matched by tain that the animals will be killed, Alan determines to that of the hospital administration, turned topsy-turvy keep her absence a secret. Eventually he needs the aid every so often in personnel changes. of two accomplices, Dr. Harris, an often drunk veterin­ Notable passages include the insider’s view of the arian, and Betsy, a classmate. A sympathetic story of a Christmas parties staged in the recreation rooms by out­ loner surviving against the odds. side groups and patient reaction to a family of puppies owned by a pretty young doctor. The Giant Panda at Home, Margaret Rau, Illus. by The tone is not crusading, but eternally cheerful, in Eva Hulsmann, Knopf, 1977, $4.95. (Gr. 4-6) the face of the daily grind and patient and administra­ A well-written and authentic description of a female tion quirks. giant panda that shows the year-long cycle of her move­ ment from higher altitudes in the spring and back to low­ Long Live the King, Lyn Tornabene, Putnam’s, 1976, lands for the summer. Described is the spring mating rit­ 386 pages, $12. ual, the birth of two cubs, and their rearing process. It The legions of Gable fans may storm the library for is illustrated in soft detailed pen-and-ink. this one. They seem to represent all ages, types and ed­ ucation levels. “Long Live the King” will give them a It Could Have Been Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale, picture of a gangly youth growing up in the Depression, Margot Zemach, Farrar, 1977, $7.95. (Gr. K-3) seizing many jobs until he found his niche. In this he is Because they were so crowded, the poor man com­ aided by his first wife, Josephine, 17 years his senior, plained to the rabbi. The rabbi insisted that the man who supervised his early actor’s training. bring in all his beasts. And when the latter were removed, His long reign, which included work or contact with home seemed so quiet, peaceful, and roomy. Zemach’s all the big theatrical names of several decades, makes pictures add zest and humor to this folktale. good reading. Through bad times and good, he seems to have retained his boyish charm, even in private life. Con­ Good-bye, Fanny Dumpy-Lumpy, Bernard Weber, tinuing generations of American women are well aware Houghton, 1977, PLB $6.95. (Gr. 1-3) of the public image. Five homey scenes in the life of a loving family of turn-of-the-century cats. In the title story, the family says good-bye to the old sofa when a new one arrives.

Anna’s Silent World, Bernard Wolf, Lippincott, 1977, PLB $6.95. (Gr. 1-4) Six-year-old Anna, born deaf, is lovingly supported by her family and friends. Wolfs photographs and text capture the full and active life she leads.

Trial Valley, Vera and Bill Cleaver, Lippincott, 1977, $7.95. (Gr. 6-9) Mary Call Luther, the heroine of Where the Lillies Bloom is now 16 and shoulders the burden of caring for her younger brother and sister. Jack Parson, an abused waif found abandoned in the woods, attaches himself to Mary Call. The rivalry of two suitors fur­ ther complicates her life. In a confident and unsenti­ mental manner, Mary Call resolves these problems. BOOK BARGAINS LISTED Lindsborg—The Lindsborg Library staged activities BY TECHNICAL PROCESSING all week for patrons of all ages. At open house and coffee April 16 guests were invited to see improvements You might call it a sale by Barb’s Bargain Basement. made over the past two years and to check out a book, At any rate, Barbara Slater, of Technical Processing, magazine or record. On Tuesday a “bookmobile journey is offering several books to system libraries at greatly through Africa” was held at noon, with lunch a “brown reduced prices. bag” affair. Leader was Edric Sherman, U.S. foreign Her list: 1 copy, Rose-Lover’s Guide, by Roland A. service officer who spent many years in Africa. Preschool Browne, was $10, now $2.50; several copies of Wanted: children enjoyed an extended story time on Wednesday The Search for Nazis in America, Howard Blum, was and women were invited to a book review/discussion, $8.95, $5.82; 1 copy, Shogun, by James Clavell, was “On Women for Women,” in the early afternoon. $12.50, now $3.50; Avon Bottle Encyclopedia, ’16-11 The week ended with a film session for grade school edition, paperback, was $12.95, $10; Angels, Billy children and the announcement of winners in the high Graham, was $4.95, $2.50; Golden Unicom, Phyllis school book review competition on Saturday. Whitney, was $7.95. $4.50; 2 copies, Room by Room Book of American Antiques, was $12.50 now $5; Home­ DISPLAYS ALL ABOUT HARPER owner’s Energy Guide, ’76 paperback, was $6.95, $2.50; South American Handbook. ’77 was $16.95, $5; $10 Harper—In honor of Harper’s Centennial on May 28, Horse, $40 Saddle, Don Rickey, Jr., was $10.95, $5; the Harper Historical Society has placed a display of Journey of the Wolf, novel by Douglas Day, was $8.95, articles of early day Harper in the library display case. $ 1; Will Rogers, the Boy Roper, Guvenile), Donald and A photographic study of animal life, plant life and Beth Day, $ 1; 2 copies, 215 Ideas To Keep Children Happy, events in the Gyp Hills by William Sheppard also is on Rainy Day Pastimes, $3. display at the library. The photographs show the unique Also, copies of Thoughts, by Olivia Bennett, wife of grandeur and diversity of this region between Medicine Gov. Robert Bennett, are available at $1.50 each. Lodge and Coldwater.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS, OFFICERS

Harper—Mrs. Anne Johnson replaces Mrs. Emma Robin­ son on the Harper Library board. Mrs. Robinson has ser­ ved on the board 12 years. Towanda—Mrs. Laura Albert is a new member of the Towanda Library board. Jerry Wathen, treasurer, has re­ signed and Mrs. Edyra Henry has taken his place. Colwich—New officers of the Colwich Library board are: Joanne Kneisler, president; Betty Pugh, vice president; Kathy Weber, secretary and Camilla Meyer, treasurer. Linda Swenson is a new member replacing Laura Seiler. Other members are: Dori Lies, Yvonne Wetta, Eloise Wolfe, Janet Wagner, Jolene Maus, Luella Linnebur, Pat Seiler and honorary board member, Rena Majerus.

SOUTH CENTRAL LIBRARIES CELEBRATE THE BIG WEEK

Caldwell—Seventy-six guests registered at the two-day open house of Caldwell Carnegie Library during National Library Week. The project was termed a great success by Mrs. Lois Beran, librarian. “I told you you’d regret getting all involved with this ‘Roots’ business.” PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM GROWING IT’S THE REEL THING

Lyons—The Lyons Library has more than 80 pre­ Among new films available for loan from the State schoolers enrolled in two Story Hour sessions. The Film Center, Wichita, are these: program has been reorganized under a staff member, Conquest of Light (11 min. color) — Shows the artis­ Chris Snyder. Volunteers from the Li-ar-mu Club con­ try by which the craftsmen of Waterford, Ireland, cap­ ducted the program the past four years. ture the iridescence of light in their famous hand-blown, The puppet plays are introducing a new children’s hand-cut crystal. department mascot, an owl. Great Radio Comedians (88 min. 3 reels color) — The children’s section eventually will expand into Treats viewer to famous routines of Jack Benny, Bums rebuilt parts of the building, now unused. The project and Allen, Fred Allen, etc. is in the planning stage. Movie Stuntmen (29 min. color) Explores dangerous Library exhibits are being shown in a new table top work of professional stuntmen. display case, the gift of local business man,W.W.Chandler. Librarian Joan Butts also reports that circulation in Beyond the Next Harvest (27 min. color) — Economists, March was 2,650, a figure exceeded only by five other nutritionists and world leaders tell why hunger exists and months in the past four years. offer solutions to the problem.

NEED A MAGAZINE RACK? NEW SHELVING

FOR SALE: Metal magazine rack, good condition, Derby—The Derby Library is enjoying newly-installed S9V2 inches wide, 15 inches deep, 43 inches tall, $25, shelving. or best offer. Inman Library, Librarian Elizabeth Belnap, 585-2122 or 585-6806.

The SUN-Newsletter South Central Kansas Library System 901 N. Main St. Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 *** Director-Duane F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

ERNESTINE GILLILAND, STATE LIBRN. KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 535 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA, KANSAS 66603 SEMIANNUAL SCKLS BOARD MEETING JUNE 13 AT HUTCHINSON LIBRARY (A ) I???? A slightly increased budget will be submitted to the trustees of South Central Kansas Library System at the semiannual meeting at the Hutchinson Library at 2 p.m. Monday, June 13. Thd budget has been under consideration by the South Central Kansas l ibrary System board’s executive committee for several weeks. Member 901 Norfh Main Hutchinson, Kansas (i/!j{l1 library boards have been asked for suggestions on changes or improvements in system services which would be re­ flected in the budget. Budget for the current year is $465,000. June, 1977______Vol. 7, No. 6 The agenda also will include discussion of policies relating to participation of colleges and universities in the HOME EYE TEST FOR PRESCHOOLERS library system AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Special guests will be Kenneth R. Leasure and Jack Wagner of the employment security division, Kansas The home eye test for preschoolers, distributed by Labor Department, who will discuss options available to the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, local libraries in providing unemployment insurance cov­ is available in quantity to system libraries from the erage for employes. Hutchinson headquarters. Board chairman, Mrs. Edna Buschow of Valley Center, Libraries may want to take advantage of summer will be in charge of the meeting. reading and story programs to distribute the fold-out eye chart to parents of preschoolers. NEED A LADDER? The charts may be requested from Bev Sullivan, of the Department for the Blind and Physically Handi­ For Sale: Library ladder. Would consider trading for capped at Hutchinson. library Kik Step. Colwich Library.

Libraries Big on Community Participation In the vanguard of local community projects throughout the South Central Kansas Library Sys­ tem you’ll usually find the libraries. They are strong on services and projects that count in the commun­ ity. Many of the libraries provide space for displays of local history and work by local artists and crafts­ men. Several register voters and one or two keep a community calendar. The Newton Library will house a local cable tele­ vision studio, the McPherson Library conducts clas­ ses for writers and the Turon Library provides space for junior college classes. The Hutchinson Library, with the cooperation of the public utilities, recently installed a custom- made counter where water, gas and electricity bills can be paid. In the picture at left, Mrs. Lillian Jacobs of Hutchinson combines bill-paying with picking up books at the library.

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June 13 — Semiannual meeting SCKLS board of trus­ tees, 2 p.m., Hutchinson Library. June 16-23 — American Library Association annual conference, Detroit. Sept. 15 - SCKLS Book Fair, Hutchinson Library Oct. 13 — SCKLS Film Festival, Wichita Library auditorium. Nov. 10 - SCKLS Workshop, Young Adults and the Library, Hutchinson. Nov. 14-20 — Children’s Book Week.

RECORD GIFT TO ANTHONY LIBRARY

Anthony—A collection of 250 classical and operatic recordings was donated to the Anthony Library by Marvin Buntin, who moved recently to Anthony from Odessa, Texas. The five wooden boxes of records re­ present about 25 years of collecting and listening to fine music by the retired jeweler. Some of the records Moundridge—Mrs. Ray Kaufman is a new board mem­ are out of production. ber of the Moundridge Library, succeeding Mrs. Steve Librarian Lora Smith, who is cataloging the records, Kaufman, a member the past seven years. said the patrons will enjoy the collection which the Derby—New members of the Derby Library board library, on its own, would not and could not have pur­ are Donna Cliff ton and Mr. Arlys Carter, who succeed chased. Marge Kimball, 8-year member, and Mary Points, 4-year member. Officers are: Liz Baker, chairman; Robert $800 DONATION TO BELLE PLAINE DeLong, vice chairman; Donna Prelliman, secretary; and Sue Herren, treasurer. Belle Plaine—A fun night, the “Good Old Days,’’ sponsored by the Busy Mrs. EHU, netted $800 for the NAMED KLA OFFICER Belle Plaine Library Improvement Fund. It will be used to remodel a section for the children’s library. Burrton—Dot Trussed, Burrton librarian, was selected secretary of the children’s division of Kansas Library NEW BOARD MEMBERS Association at the recent conference in Topeka.

Turon—New Turon Library board officers are: TREES BEAUTIFY GROUNDS Sue Johnston, chairman Donna Dickerson, vice chair­ man; Wilma Barker, treasurer. New board members are Macksville—Two new trees on the Macksville Library Mrs. Connie VanCampen and Mrs. Vicki Calahan. lawn have been donated as memorials. A flowering crab Argonia—Newly elected officers of the Dixon Town­ was given by Mrs. Martin Mitchell, library board member, ship Library board are: Nancy Rucker, vice chairman, in memory of her sister, Bess Patterson. A locust was and Thelma Achelpohl, secretary. Other officers are: given by the library board in memory of Rev. Robert Lois Greenwood, chairman, and Margaret Jesseph, Carver, late husband of the librarian. treasurer. SUMMER READING PLANS Sterling—New board members of the Free Public Lib­ rary here are Gale Earle and Quentin Kilgore. Frances Valley Center—The Abilene PTO again is planning a Calderwood has been appointed treasurer to finish out series of five special programs at the Valley Center Lib­ the term of E.B. Rodgers. Also leaving the board is rary as part of the Summer Reading Program. Children W.A. McFerrin. Other officers are: Mrs. Glenn Welch, from kindergarten through sixth grade are eligible to president, and Mrs. Clinton Asher, vice president. Other attend the fun activities, programs by guests and story members are Mrs. Frank Chesky and Mrs. Charles Hayes. hours. Kiss, Inc., Lois Wyse, Doubleday, 1977, 255 pages, $77957" This novel of meandering plot gradually picks up interest and focuses on the convention of Kiss, Inc., a cosmetics firm, at a resort, the Gates of Paradise. Central figure is the tyrant founder who pulls the strings of puppet-like characters.

The Riddle of the Winds, W.S.Kals, Doubleday, 1977, 190 pages, $7.95. (with index) The effect of air movement on the earth is registered on the earth’s contours, history, even individual moods. The book contains explanation of wind combined Earth Magic, Francis Hitching, Morrow, 1977, 303 with other climatic factors, plenty of charts to show pat­ pages, $10. (with index) terns of air movement, weather extremes, possibilities of Prehistoric development of stone monuments, such wind energy. It’s interesting enough for the layman, de­ as Stonehenge, in various parts of the world is explored tailed for the student. here with great skill. Maps show the strange similarity of stone construc­ First Person Singular, Dr. Stephen M. Johnson, Lippin- tion found on every continent and a well-written text cott, 1977, 363 pages, $10. interprets the probable intelligence that sparked the In a couple-oriented world, the single adult often finds building. Tiny scraps of evidence can reveal a great the going rough. This book, by a psychologist who has deal about the builders and the author makes the ex­ been through separation and divorce, is aimed at helping ploration fascinating. the single person say goodbye to his former life and enter a future of opportunity for personal growth and develop­ How To Remember Anything, David Markoff, ment. Andrew Dubin, Denise Carcel, Arco, 1976, 187 pages, $5. Johnson prods the reader to list goals for his life, You can use the “untapped reservoir of your mind” whether learning to cook a decent meal for one or meet­ if you really want to, according to these authors. This ing other single adults, then to make concrete, though handbook builds methods of remembering lists, names, unhurried, plans to achieve the goals. text, scientific equations, even a foreign language, on a system of mental association. The authors claim you Not Dying, Francis R. Rodman, Random House, can achieve “the ability to place any information you 1977, 216 pages. $7.95. wish in a place in your mind where you will know where A memorable skiing holiday is the last truly happy to find it.” family time for Psychiatrist Robert Rodman, his wife The main requirement—you must get involved, partici­ and two daughters. pate, work at it. The wife has an emergency hysterectomy and remains ill with what is diagnosed as cancer. She will not recog­ The Pleasures of Deception, Norman Moss, Reader’s nize the serious symptoms and the husband chronicles Digest, 1977, 201 pages, $7.95. the many turns and moods the final months take. What a subject for an entire book. But what fun it Sensitively written, it shows the weary surrender of becomes. the survivors, their numbness and recurring realization These are the elaborate practical jokes that make the of their loss. learned blush with embarrassment, the clever hoaxes that take in millions of dollars, including Clifford Irving’s The Gift of Grief, Ira J. Tanner, Hawthorn, 1976, fake biography of Howard Hughes. 167 pages, $6.95. You see the technique of setting up the hoax, of lead­ This book shows grief as a frequent visitor through­ ing the one being duped to draw erroneous conclusions out life—grief over loss of a job or honor, loss of hair or from known facts, then dance merrily to his downfall. a youthful figure, loss of a prized personal possession The style is relaxed and humorous. or a mate. In the usual context grief is associated with death or a Puritan, and his social climbing wife are ignorant of tragic circumstances. But, in reality, we deal with it in the old way, but his son, Joel, takes to country life. Joel some form much more frequently. Time is needed in falls in love with the hired gentlewoman, Anne Seckar, all cases. Grief can be the means to growth and a richer who inherits a family treasure found on the property. life. All ends happily.

Fishbait, William “Fishbait” Miller, Prentice-Hall, 1977, Mother Rabbit’s Son Tom, Dick Gackenback, Harper, 381 pages, $12.50. 1977, $3.95, PLB $3.79. (PreS-Gr. 3) The irreverent former House of Representatives door­ Young Tom worries his mother by constantly asking keeper, “Fishbait” Miller, reveals many of his inside ob­ for nothing to eat but hamburgers until she fears he will servations in this book. turn into a big hamburger. In a second episode, Tom For example, LBJ was so eager to display his gall blad­ scares Mother Rabbit with an inflated dinosaur “pet” der operation scar because he wanted to dispel rumors after she refuses to let him have a more conventional that the surgery was exploratory for cancer. type pet. Miller recounts the romances of Kansas Congresswoman Martha Keys and fun-loving Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana The Devil Hole, Eleanor Spence, Lothrop, 1977, $5.61 and of Bob Dole, the “Cary Grant of the Hill,” and (Gr. 6-8) Elizabeth Hanford, which culminated in a “marriage of The new baby is welcomed with joy and anticipation the honorables” (since they were both qualified for the into the Mariner family, but the strange and disruptive title). behavior which baby Carl gradually develops makes it You’ll find interesting tidbits on internal “House­ evident that he is not like other children. keeping” and on political figures. Douglas Mariner agonizes that the horrifying experi­ ence he had at the Devil Hole may have frightened his mother, brought on his brother’s premature birth and caused Carl to be different. An understanding friend helps Douglas realize he is not responsible. A moving novel revealing the effects of an autistic child on a family.

Simple Pictures Are Best, Nancy Willard, Harcourt, 1977, $7.95, (PreS-Gr. 3) Even though the photographer tells the shoemaker and his wife that simple pictures are best, they keep finding additional things to include in their portrait. Then coax­ ing them to smile seems an impossibility until a bull charges into the scene, whereupon the shoemaker and his wife roar with laughter. The result is a picture of A Dinosaur Is Too Big, Elizabeth Bram, Green willow, only a large angry bull and a repeat of the photographer’s 1977, $4.95. (PreS-Gr. 3) refrain, “Simple pictures are best.” A small hand-sized book in which a child tries to de­ cide which animal to have for a pet. After considering On the Frontier with Mr, Audubon, Barbara Brenner, several animals she finally decides on a dinosaur! But Coward, 1977, $6.95. (Gr. 4-8). a dinosaur would take up a whole yard and she would A fictional journal kept by Joseph Mason, Audubon’s have to spend hours feeding it. Finally the child admits 13-year old assistant, provides a readable record of his that “I need an animal my own size.” A cat? experiences with that meticulous painter of birds. Their 1820 trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers took Hobberty Dick, K.M. Briggs, Greenwillow, 1977, them into the mysterious swamplands of Louisiana. $6~95, PLB $5.94. (Gr. 6-8) There Joseph painted and sketched the plants which An eminent authority on folklore tells the story of often formed the backgrounds of Audubon’s paintings. Hobberty Dick, a hobgoblin, whose charge is to guard A well-researched book. Widford Manor in mid-17th century England. Unhappily Dick watches the new tenants move in. Widdison, a White Serpent Castle, Lensey Namioka, McKay, 1977, Choose seasonal themes rather than those which are $6.95. (Gr. 6=9) weekly or daily, for longer use. If you plan a theme An exciting mystery set in 16th century Japan about around famous birthdays of the month, choose a calen­ two samurai warriors who are available for service. Zenta dar motif that can be kept up all month. and Matsuzo come upon a castle shaped like a writhing After seasonal holidays or special promotions in local serpent. There they match wits with a white serpent ghost stores, ask the proprietor for materials that might other­ and a scheming chamberlain to insure that Lord Okudair’s wise be thrown away. You can build your own stockpile castle falls to the rightful heir. of supplies. Here are a few seasonal ideas: The Pinballs, Betsy Byars, Harper, 1977, $5.95, PLB $5.79 (Gr. 5-8) Spring and summer—Hook, line and sinker: Pinballs go where they are pushed and life’s tilts have Whistle stops (beauty tips); Bait for your line thrown three children of diverse backgrounds with the (etiquette for boys); Going to bat; Colorful read­ Masons. Fifteen-year-old Carley, 13-year-old Harvey and ing (books with color in the title). eight-year-old Thomas learn about love and trust under June—Love’s old sweet song; Moonlight and the guidance of ideal foster parents. magnolias; for report card blues; Off again (travel). July—Dive into these; Ring for liberty; Swing around America; For your funny bone. August—Cool, calm and collected (collections); ■ - / Keep cool with a thriller or chiller (mystery); Our I -■ neck of the woods. WATCH YOUR P’S AND Q’S c A side effect of the popular genealogy study may be a new appreciation of legible penmanship. . . . f u s t A mother, striving to read census records on micro­ return film at the Hutchinson Library, told her young son, “I hope you can see the importance of good handwriting.” This not-too-subtle sign was used on a Hutchinson Public Library bulletin board. The center illustration was a clipped NEW BPH DEPARTMENT HEAD drawing of books and the letters were cut-out. Bev Sullivan, worker in the department of Services for DON’T HIDE YOUR LIGHT the Blind and Physically Handicapped, has become de­ partment head, succeeding Judy Neal, who has moved Advertising pays. One of the best ways to “advertise” to Norton. Judy will be employed by Northwest Lib­ the wares of the library is in-house, on your own walls rary System. A new employe in the department is and tables. Karen Socha. Be sure the posters and displays are fresh, appealing and don’t stay around long enough to become stale. Although it seems a little thing, calling attention to specific book topics, your record collection, Talking Books, etc. can set off a reaction that will extend your library service. Among ways to provide eye-catching illustrations and ideas for displays are these: Use posters of popular celebrities such as Farr ah Fawcett-Majors and the Fonz, Snoopy characters and the Sesame Street gang or drawings from the goldmine of illustrations in children’s books. Newton-A “time line,” actually a cord strung on top Turon—Eighty-five persons attended the National of bookcases in the Newton Library’s children’s depart­ Library Week open house at the Turon Library. The ment, will mark progress in the Summer Reading Program, library was decorated with china, oil and tole paintings according to Mary Kerbs, children’s librarian. Individual by the senior citizens’ crafts class, tote bags by the Girl children will attach dinosaur tracks to the line and pro­ Scouts and craft items by the Brownie Scouts. gress through six prehistoric periods, each requiring the reading of 10 books. FEDERAL GRANT TO PROMOTE INDEPENDENT ADULT STUDY VENTRILOQUIST ENDS STORYTIME Newton—A $32,000 federal grant, awarded to the Sterling-A successful Storytime program at the Newton Library, will provide an inventory of resources Sterling Library concluded with the visit of Gail Wenos for adult learning for new interests, job needs and in­ of California, a ventriloquist. Beta Sigma Phi Sorority creased leisure in cooperation with the Job Service members were in charge, assisted at some meetings by Center. members of the high school drama class. Average atten­ The program will begin Aug. 1 and continue for a dance at each was 30 children. Storytime will be resumed year, said Librarian Neysa Eberhard. The Newton in the fall. Library’s non-fiction will be evaluated in relation to needs of adult learners and guidance for independent LIBRARY WEEK CELEBRATIONS adult study. Three professional employes and one clerk will be hired. Macksville—Photographs by Cheryl Unruh, Pawnee Rock, student at Macksville High School, were displayed at the Macksville Library during National Library Week. Artist Benny Broadfoot helped arrange the display.

Nonprofit Organization The SUN-Newsletter l . S. POSTAGE South Central Kansas Library System PAID 901 N. Main St. PERMIT NO. 50 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 *** Director-Duane F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

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July, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 7

KANSAS PRE-CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES UP IN THE AIR MURALS BRIGHTEN STERLING LIBRARY CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT Kansas participation in preliminary work for the White House Conference on Library and Information A young patron, Lita Zimmerman, 7, appears to enjoy a lion in the new mural in the children’s department of the Sterling Lib­ Services in September, 1979, is a little hazy. rary, The mural, with figures taken from the new curtains, was Initial plans for a state pre-conference, however, painted by the Sterling College Art Club, sponsored by Artist must be submitted by the end of July. Gordon Zahradnik. Also inspecting the mural, below, are from The big holdup in Kansas is funding which must meet left, Mrs. Glenn Welch, president of the Sterling Library Board; national guidelines. The initial federal grant for a state Mrs. Del Randolph, member of the decorating committee: Joyce pre-conference is $10,000. An additional $15,000 to Webb, library assistant; and Lita. $20,000 is required from state sources for a state the size of Kansas and, if that is raised, the federal govern­ ment will add an additional fourth of the local amount. Federal guidelines also specify two-thirds participa­ tion by the lay public in a pre-conference and recom­ mend payment of per diem expenses of conference participants. The Kansas Library Association earlier had discussed plans for a state pre-conference sometime in 1978, but the conference itself now is indefinite, said Charles Bolles, Topeka, new KLA president. Means oi funding in Kansas are being explored. Congress has appropriated $3.5 million to enable the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sci­ ence to carry out the White House Conference and assist the states with their own conferences beforehand. State conferences are scheduled to begin in December a and continue through April 30, 1979. 4. New achievements m technology offer a potential for enabling Reasons for the conference, as enumerated in the law, libraries to serve the public more fully and economically. 5. Maximum realization of the potential inherent in the use of ad­ are: vanced technology by libraries and information centers requires 1. Access to information and ideas is indispensable to the develop­ cooperation and coordination of the services of libraries and in­ ment of human potential, the advancement of civilization, and formation centers. the continuance of enlightened self-government. 6. The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science 2. Preservation and dissemination of information and ideas are the is developing plans for meeting national library needs and coor­ primary purpose of libraries dinating activities to meet those needs. / / 3. Growth and augmentation of the nation's libraries and informa- 7. Production recommendations for expanding access to libraries < . tion centers are essential if all Americans-are to have reasonable will require public understanding and support as well as that of ' L tp 'A J access to adequate services of libraries and information centers. public and private libraries and information centers. JOB OPENINGS IN DODGE CITY

Dodge City—Two major library positions will become vacant in Dodge City this summer. They are the director­ ship and the position of outreach and assistant reference librarian. Jan Bryant, director, hastens to say there is nothing wrong with Dodge City or the library. It’s just that hus­ bands of both Director Bryant and Karen Curtis are tak­ ing new jobs outside Kansas and the librarians will move J this summer. Here are job particulars: OUTREACH and assistant reference librarian—Prefer­ ably master’s degree; will consider bachelor’s with lib­ r i rary experience. Apply, Jan Bryant, director, Dodge City Public Library, 606 First Ave., Dodge City, 67801. f ] i DIRECTOR—Master’s degree in library science from ALA accredited school, minimum two years experience. Opening Sept. 1. Apply, Lorrine Kieler, board president, Dodge City Library.

TIPS FOR SCKLS LIBRARIANS LIBRARY BOARDS ELECT NEW MEMBERS Many library supplies are available on request from the Rotating Book Service van. When the RBS van stops Kiowa—Mrs. Jean Brown replaces Mrs. Dorothy Mcllree at your library, ask for the supplies you need. The van on the Kiowa Library Board. carries plastic book jackets, plastic record holders, book Cheney—Lois Bruington and Sondra Detter are new pockets and cards, catalog cards, new book order forms, Cheney Library Board members. They replace Mary interlibrary loan forms and jiffy mailers. Roembach and Shelley Wise who have served two terms Getting supplies during the RBS van visit will save each. postage. *** Mulvane—New member of the Mulvane Library board is Marjorie VanZant, replacing Rev. Ron Sebring, who To answer the question of several librarians, the ad­ resigned since he is accepting a new church in Kansas City, dress of Denny Dey, professional storyteller, is Box 3464, Kan. Librarian Nina Wessels says Marj has long been the Lawrence, Kan. 66044. library’s “mender” as a volunteer, the only one who really learned to backstrip at a mending workshop. ART OF SOUTHWEST SHOWN McPherson—New members of the McPherson Library Board are Mrs. David D. Nelson and A. Kelly Mathis. Pretty Prairie—Art work by Hugh Cabot, noted for his pictures of the Southwest U.S., is being shown at NATIONAL SMILE WEEK IN AUGUST the Pretty Prairie Library, courtesy of Dean Kelley, who formerly lived in that area. For better or worse, August 1-6 has been designated The collection includes some work of the Indians of National Smile Week. Libraries can participate by com­ Mexico. Cabot who lives in Arizona, also is well known piling “smile provoking” book lists, bookmarks and fliers, for his Korean War Combat Collection. posters and displays. They could stage a “biggest smile” contest, maybe even give patrons a chance to return over­ STITCHERY DISPLAY due books “for a smile.” The same week, thanks to library research, is also McPherson—A stitchery display and two related pro­ Turtles International Awareness Week, which a library grams will be presented during July at the McPherson might celebrate with a turtle race dr show. Library. A program will be given by Fern Mohler July 20 August also is National Salad Month, proclaimed by and several showings of the film, “Granny’s Quilt, are Kraft Foods. You can toss that around for a promotion­ planned July 7. al idea. The Red Limit, Timothy Ferris, Morrow, 1977, 245 pages, $ 10. This mind-expanding book traces new developments in astronomy. Ferris writes gracefully of historical back­ ground, then goes into new discoveries of shifts of gal­ axies and ways of measuring the new discoveries. SCKLS In the introduction, Carl Sagan writes, “Because the pace of recent discovery has been so rapid and the sub­ BOOK ject matter so removed from everyday experience, the V* excitement and exhilaration and passion of modern cos­ mology is not appreciated nearly so well as it should be... For many readers who have not previously encountered Farther Off from Heaven, William Humphrey, Knopf, modern cosmological ideas, this book will provide a two­ 1977, 242 pages, $8.95. fold revelation—about the beauty and grandeur of the This highly readable memoir is about boyhood in universe and the brilliance and tenacity of the human Clarksville, Texas. The atmosphere of the school room, minds that occupy an obscure corner of that universe.” Depression-time home, Saturday night on the town square, is immediate and vivid. Seattle, Gerald B. Nelson, Knopf, 1977, 206 pages, The author’s father dies in an accident and the trag­ $8.95. edy is told with flashbacks to childhood events. The Seattle’s boom or bust history makes good reading. author sees that he was the spoiled, talented only child The city has gone through rich periods of Yukon gold of a young couple. The wife lost her youthful vivacity fever, shipbuilding, aviation and space activity. When in the struggle for respectability, but the husband re­ the single industry of the moment failed, residents re­ mained wild, a little beyond the town’s approval. fused to move on. The author includes interviews and documents to show the flavor and psychology of the Stonewall, Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, city. Jr., Simon and Schuster, 1977, 395 pages, $11.95. Just when you think you’ve heard all there is to hear A Passion in the Blood, Genevieve Davis, Simon and about Watergate, another book appears. This one, by Schuster, 1977, 360 pages, $9.95. two young assistants to the Special Prosecutor, deals Lucrezia Borgia, subject of this fictionalized biography, with the intricacies of the government’s case and the usually inspires feelings of revulsion and contempt. This slender margin by which “the system did work,” well-researched novel should bring the reader at least They point out it’s not altogether true we have a gov­ understanding, if not admiration. ernment of laws, not men. It’s more like a government Lucrece, as she preferred to be called, was a beautiful, of laws and men. The federal judges made contributions. child-like pawn in a power-hungry family. Her father, a When the criminal prosecution system was circumvented, high-living schemer, was elected Pope, Alexander VI, the executive had to deal with the “fragile and unfamiliar” about 1500, when she was a child. He began placing his force of the Special Prosecutor. Nixon helped the investi­ sons and daughter in advantageous marriages and/or mil­ gators, too, with his bungling. itary campaigns to further his own interests. He already had a reputation for having dinner guests succumb to Criminal Russia, Valery Chalidze, Random House, mysterious ailments after leaving his house. 1977, 215 pages, $10. Lucrece was a child bride of 13 in a political marriage, This is an interesting review of criminal attitudes and then married two more times. She was a victim of the laws in Russia by an expatriate who now edits a human times which are well described in all their primitive, rights publication in New York. Apparently a tradition medieval splendor. of admiration of looting and murder against other groups and classes grew up in Russia, particularly among the File on the Tzar, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, peasants, and was encouraged by the communal society. Harper and Row, 1976, 416 pages. $ 12.50. The author catalogs acts considered criminal and com­ Fascinating and detailed detective work on one of pares attitudes over the world. this century’s most baffling and never solved mysteries. You will believe the author’s conclusions but will be led, as they were, to many more unanswered questions. The Feminization of American Culture, Ann Douglas, A Summer to Die, Lois Lowry, Houghton, 1977, Knopf, 1977, 329 pages, $15. $6.95. (Gr. 7-9) As America: became industrialized in the 19th century, It was hard for 13-year-old Meg not to be envious a drastic change occurred in women’s home duties. Pre­ because 15-year-old Molly was the pretty, popular and servation of food, production of yarn and cloth, even confident older sister. When the family moved to a child care, were moved outside the home. Women turned smaller house in a rural area so the professor father to church-going and eventually, according to Ann Douglas, could complete tne writing of a book the two girls allied with clergymen to become a major literary and cul­ shared a room and things grew even worse. Then Molly tural influence. got sick. At first it was just a nuisance. Meg poignantly The resulting saccharine sentiments of Victorian times relates how the illness changed Molly to a touchy in­ were part of a new society that catered to the inactive valid and finally to a hospital patient. One day Meg real­ female segment. ized that Molly was not going to come home from the The interesting thesis is supported by many examples hospital, that Molly was going to die. A warm picture of literature of the period. emerges of a family bound together by the sharing of their loss. In Nueva York, Nicholosa Mohr, Dial, 1977, 191 pages, $7.95. Three Friends Find Spring, Judy Delton, illus. by This book of short stories is Ms. Mohr’s third published Guilio Maestro, Crown, 1977, $6.95. (PreS-Gr. 3) work. The other two were winners of New York Times Fussy, grumpy Duck hates winter. His two. friends, Outstanding Book of the Year, National Book Award Rabbit and Squirrel, try to cheer him up by creating finalist and Library Journal Best Book of the Year. an early spring in various ways. They make early Easter Reason enough to read this collection of beautifully baskets, repaint his kitchen yellow, remove the snow • written, intimate and inter-related stories of New York’s from his yard and sprinkle it with green confetti. By Puerto Rican community. this time Rabbit and Squirrel hate winter almost as much as Duck. Then Duck announces he has found Crazy Love, Phyllis Naylor, Morrow, 1977, $7.95. The tragedy and creeping nightmare of a young spring right beside his fence—a blue crocus. woman’s marriage is an insane man. With the growing realization of the problem, she begins the constant, Billy Bedamned, Long Gone By, Patricia Beatty, futile attempt to lead a normal life and seek profession­ Morrow, 1977, $5.94. (Gr. 5-8) al help. Remember the Texas Quineys of How Many Miles to Sundown and A Long Way to Whiskey Creek during the 1880’s ? Here are the Quiney offspring and it is 1929 in California. Thirteen-year-old Merle tells how she, Mom, Grandmother Susannah (a full-blooded Quiney) and 11- year-old Graham start out for Louisiana in a new Stude- baker sedan minus Dad who is too busy to leave. While driving through Texas, they have an accident by coinci­ dence almost on the doorstep of the home of Grand­ mother’s two brothers. As a result of a quarrel Grand­ mother hasn’t spoken to her brothers for 40 years. She wouldn’t say why, but the children soon discover that By Junivee Black Great-uncle Rudd is a terrible liar, and his biggest whop­ A January Fog Will Freeze a Hog and Other Weather pers are about how he lost his ear. This is adventurous, Folklore, compiled by Hubert Davis, illus. by John humorous, and entertaining reading. Wallner, Crown, 1977, $6.95. (Gr.2-4) Early forms of weather forecasting are represented in Sand Tiger Shark, Carol Carrick, Illus. by Donald 30 verses, mostly of American origin. All are short and Carrick, Seabury, 1977, $6.95. (Gr. 2-4) easy to remember like “when the cow scratches the ear The tiger shark prowls the seas just as it has long be­ it means a shower is near.” John Wallner’s striking illus­ fore the dinosaurs. The life cycle of one of these name­ trations reproduced in black and white make this a very less creatures is followed from its birth, through its dramatic picture book. Notes at the back of the book ex­ maturity, until it ends with a frenzied battle and brutal plain the basis of each fact. death as a victim of another shark. Powerful drawings accentuate the drama in the life of this predator of the waters. LIBRARY EVENTS “BOOK BUGGY” SERVES FOUR EL DORADO LOCATIONS July 11 - SCKLS executive committee meeting, 2 p.m., Hutchinson Library. El Dorado—A “book buggy,” constructed with open Sept. 15 - SCKLS Book Fair, Hutchinson Library shelves on a trailer, made its first appearance for Brad­ Oct. 13 - SCKLS Film Festival, Wichita Library ford Memorial Library June 27. It travels to four auditorium. El Dorado locations for two hour visits each week. Nov. 10 - SCKLS Workshop, Young Adults and The “book buggy” purchased by Friends of the Lib­ the Library, Hutchinson. rary, is staffed by regular staff members. The 500 to Nov. 14-20 - Children’s Book Week 600 books available were supplied from the library’s book budget and SCKLS bulk loan.

ALA CONFERENCE REPORT

By Duane Johnson Director, South Central Kansas Library System

The summer conference of the all together cover several acres of hall space. Lit­ American Library Association held erally hundreds of exhibitors. A day (better, two in Detroit, June 7-22 was a good days) in the exhibits can give you a clearer view event, as usual, for librarians and of the state of the book publishing and library library trustees, but also as usual, industry than you could get from a month of the exhibitors tended to grumble reading in the library literature. a lot. Main reason for exhibitors’ The controversial film ALA produced is titled complaints was that too few lib­ “The Speaker,” and is a dramatized case study of rarians showed up for the occa­ a fictional situation in which a man with a con­ sion. Only 9,700 made it to troversial idea—that minority races are inferior— I Detroit, down from the 12,000 to 14,000 the sum­ is not allowed to speak to a high school student mer conference usually draws. group. It illustrates a defense of First Amend­ Library automation, ALA reorganization ment freedom. and a new film on censorship produced by Some outspoken ALA members considered ALA which, lo and behold, a sizable num­ the film simplistic, stereotyped and racially ber of librarians want to censor, were the insulting. Others asserted that it was none of most active discussion subjects behind the these things and that the controversial nature of formal conference agenda. the subject dealt with was necessary to show the There were still far more meetings going on than one problem in a realistic way. From this point of person can get to. You have to select and spend your view, it appeared to be an excellent production. time carefully. In addition to subject meetings, there SCKLS probably will buy a copy and lend it so are the necessary general membership meetings and librarians and other citizens can view and decide the lengthy sessions of ALA council. for themselves. And there were also the exhibits, which amount It all added to the interest, even excitement, to the most practical part of the conference. You of a summer ALA. You should have been there. can see there books, publishers, authors, illustra­ It’s a fine experience for a librarian or library tors, equipment displays and demonstrations which, trustee. SCKLS BECOMING DINOSAUR LAND Sterling—A special program is planned .July 13, feat­ uring “life in the day of Denny the Dinosaur.” Special Winfield—To highlight opening day of the Dinosaur decorations will be placed in the children’s department Summer Reading Program at the Winfield Library, a and filmstrips will be shown. A miniature “dinosaur puppet show of fact and fiction about dinosaurs was forest” was made by Mrs. Robert Baer for use by the presented. Approximately 90 children and parents library this summer. attended. A display featuring Tyrannosaurus Rex, dinosaur of ADD TO MEMORIALS AT KIOWA the week, was prepared by Jeanette Nichols. Skulls of several present-day animals were included for size com­ Kiowa—A new memorial book at the Kiowa Library parison with the cardboard skull of Rex. Plastic models is The Stitchery Idea Book, by Beverly Rush. It was of dinosaurs loaned to the library also are on display. A presented by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lumpkin to honor sand box full of plastic dinosaurs has proven to be quite Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wetz. popular with young patrons. At the end of the first week, 115 children in grades one through six and 31 pre-schoolers were enrolled. Mulvane—Awards for children taking part in the Summer Reading Program are small plastic turtles (turtles are pre-historic too, aren’t they?) inscribed in silver ink, “Mulvane Public Library ’77.” (The turtles cost seven cents each.) Zenda—The Summer Reading Program opened at the Zenda Library with a program by Denny Dey, profes­ sional storyteller. About 30 children attended.

_____ Nonprofit Organisation The SUN-Newsletter U. S. POSTAGE South Central Kansas Library System 901 N. Main St. PAID PERMIT NO, 50 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 ** * Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 Director-Duane F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb paper only, nrbfiJiif^^^enses have been so large, however, that only two papers were used this year. SCKLS The notice appeared Monday, July 25, or Tuesday, July 26, depending on the edition.

SUN PERIODICAL FILE FREQUENTLY USED

Thanks to cooperation of about 20 SCKLS librar­ South Central Kansas Library System ies, a union file of periodicals is being put to good 901 North Main use by the Interlibrary Loan Department. Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 The libraries complied with a request to furnish listings of their periodicals. Now almost filling two August, 1977______Vol. 7, No. 8 file drawers, they range from A (ALA Bulletin) to SCKLS BUDGET HEARING Z (Zoonoos). They’re much appreciated, says Bert TO BE AUG. 8 AT 2 P.M. Newton, ILL head.

A public hearing for the 1978 budget of South Central Kansas Library System is scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8, during the monthly meeting of the system’s executive committee. The budget of $484,950 was approved at the semi­ annual meeting of the board of trustees in June. After a presentation of the Kansas Division of Employment at the meeting that government sub-divisions, such as libraries, are responsible for financing unemployment insurance coverage, the budget was increased by $1,200 to cover this expense. The total budget will be $486,150. Everyone is welcome to attend the pub­ lic hearing, but system board members are not obligated to attend. The hearing often is a formality with no one from the public present. The new budget is $21,150 higher than that of the current year. The amount of aid to the 65 librar­ ies of the system remains the same, $147,840. The book budget also remains the same at $45,000. In­ creases are found in salaries, from $162,600 to $178,860; in union catalog maintenance, from $25,000 to $30,000 and slight amounts in Blue Cross-Blue Shield, communications, contractual services, insurance, postage and freight, printing and supplies. Property evaluation is expected to increase slightly to produce a small increase in revenue from Vi mill levy on system rural areas outside library districts. Notices of the budget hearing appeared this year in daily papers in Wichita and Hutchinson because they Story Hour Lady at Augusta — Ruth Lawlor tells a story to are generally circulated over the area. In the past the an appreciative audience at the Story Hour at Augusta Public notice was published in one newspaper in each of the Library. Her apron has many pockets, each containing an ob­ ject that is related to a forthcoming story. The Story Hour system’s 1 2 counties, even though the legal require­ sessions end in July and will resume in September. ment is for publication in one general circulation (Augusta Daily Gazette Photo)

^ 9 / *7 , o x d- c? Book Fair at Holidome Sept. 15

The annual SCKLS Book Fair Is mov­ served at a sandwich buffet. ing into the spotlight. And what a spot­ The Kansas State Fair also will be light. ^ L K L S on at this time and will add another The fair will be staged 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 0 OK'r A l K facet to the occasion. In addition, a Thursday, Sept. 15, in two Regency Mid-America Arts Alliance exhibit of Rooms at Hutchinson’s new Holiday Inn historical photographs on the Sioux Holidome, 1400 North Lorraine. Indian Rosebud Reservation will be David Youngstrom, representative of showing at the mezzanine gallery of Gordon’s Books, Inc. in Denver, a crowd Hutchinson Public Library. The ex­ pleaser at past Book Fairs, will review hibit, “Crying for a Vision—A Rosebud new fall books. Special displays will be Sioux Trilogy, 1896-1976” will be at shown and a best seller exhibit is plan­ HPL Sept. 14 to Oct. 12. ned. Local authors will be invited to So, make it a day—the Book Fair, attend and show their books. the State Fair, the new Holidome, An informal noon luncheon will be and the Rosebud Sioux Trilogy.

THE REEL THING The Tunnel (25 min. color) presents the pressures a By Sondra Koontz teenager faces from his peers, parents, counselors, State Film Library teachers, and physical environment as it shows a young man’s violent encounter with a gang. ALA Notable Film The Wichita Council on Drug Abuse helped us pur­ for Young Adults. chase Mary Jane Grows Up: Marijuana in the 70’s Many of our mailing containers are in poor condition. (52 min. color) an excellent documentary on the status We plan to buy new ones shortly. In the meantime, we of marijuana for teenagers and concerned parents. ask you not to use pliers on the buckles. Once you do Doubletalk (9 min. color) rated a star (*) in the this, the box is ruined. June 15, 1977, Booklist. A boy picks up his date and gets stuck making small talk with her parents. Over­ LIBRARY LOOK-AHEAD lapping soundtracks transmit the thoughts of the three trapped people. Hilarious for dating teenagers and their Aug. 8 — SCKLS executive committee meeting parents. ALA Notable Film for Young Adults. and public budget hearing, 2 p.m., Someday (11 min. color) is a ski film shot in Canada Hutchinson Library. and Colorado. Teenage sports enthusiasts will love it. Sept. 15 — SCKLS Book Fair, Holiday Inn Many teenagers ask for films on psychic phenomena. Holidome. We bought Matthew Manning (27 min. color) to fill this Oct. 13 — SCKLS Film Festival, Wichita Library need. Scientists consider Matthew, in his 20’s, the world’s auditorium most famous psychic. He receives written statements and NoV. 10 — SCKLS Workshop, “Young Adults and drawings from the dead. Rooms rearrange themselves the Library,” with Author Richard Peck and objects hurl through the air when Matthew is near. and Topeka Librarian Mike Printz. Angel and Big Joe (26 min. color) won an Academy Hutchinson. Award. It is the moving story of a friendship between Nov. 14-20 — Children’s Book Week. a teenage Mexican-American migrant worker and an Anglo telephone repairman. Elsinor, Charles Webb, McGraw-Hill, 1976, 212 pages, $7.95. This novel of the frustration and near-terror of a “normal” life out of control is by the author of the “The Graduate.” An everyday housewife tries to find her husband who has set up their divorce without dis­ SCKLS cussing it with her. The elusive husband is involved with a homosexual BOOK LOOK group and the wife fights officialdom, officialese and evasion.

Special People, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Simon and The American West, Ann and Myron Sutton, Schuster, 1977, $8.95. Chanticleer Press, 1976, 256 pages, $25. Julie Eisenhower uses her special vantage point and Georgeous vistas and close-ups of fauna and flora a pleasant writing style to produce a unique book. She of western and northern North America contribute writes of Prince Charles as an American “princess” to an excellent presentation by a husband and wife who helped entertain him on his visit to this country. team, also a botanist and geologist team. Mamie Eisenhower, with her “star quality” and “whim It’s almost like a tour of Yellowstone, forests and of iron,” is described by from the viewpoint of an affec­ seas of the Pacific coast, the badlands, trails of the tionate, admiring granddaughter-in-law. northern Rockies and wilds of Canada. The text con­ To her credit, the author focuses on the inner story veys a lot of information in easily understandable of each person. terms.

It Didn’t Start with Watergate, Victor Lasky, Dial, The Duchess of Duke Street, Mollie Hardwick, Holt, 1977, 416 pages, $ 10. Rinehart and Winston, 1976, 303 pages, $8.95. This book may be considered a balance in the tide of A strong-minded English girl of the lower classes de­ Watergate books. cides to become the best cook in England. Her pursuit Lasky points out other presidential transgressions of this goal leads to a marriage of convenience, becom­ that have been overlooked by a friendly press. He does ing a mistress of the prince until he was named King not excuse the Nixon administration but points out Edward VII and proprietorship of a famous London some events could have been subject to several inter­ hotel. While appearances were all important in this pretations. Victorian era, they sometimes were far different from reality. Holy Places of Christendom, Stewart Perowne, Ox­ The book is based on the popular BBC-TV series of ford University Press, 1976, 154 pages, $12.95. the same title, created by John Hawkesworth, one of A scholar and world traveler explains Holy Land the originators of “Upstairs, Downstairs.” The series locations and their Biblical connotations. Beautiful will be shown in the U.S. beginning this fall. color photographs, pictures of shrines in other parts of the world, Christian art and artifacts add to the beauty Motorcycles, L.J.K. Setright, Morrison and Gibb, of the book. 1976, 153 pages, $7.98. Motorcycle fans will love this book; others surely Persuasive Writing, Patricia C. Weaver and Robert will appreciate motorcycles a little more. In the 80 G. Weaver, Free Press, 1977, 230 pages, $10. years since bicycles were motorized, 2,000 motor­ This gold mine of a book on business procedure tells cycle brands have come, and many have gone. The you how to ask for something gracefully, say no gently author selects outstanding examples, beginning with and yes briefly. Letter form and usage is explained con­ the earliest, to describe and picture. The classics are cisely and there is complete information on resumes, here and their advantages and disadvantages described applications, business reports. in detail. Sections deal with minutes of a meeting, charts, lists (more on next page) and tables, troublesome words, how to get information you need, how to organize material. “Could Be Worse!”, James Stevenson, Greenwillow, 1977, unpaged, $6.95. (Gr. K-2) From day to day things were always the same at Grandpa’s house. Whatever the grandchildren’s com­ plaints to out-of-the ordinary disasters, Grandpa’s response was, “could be worse.” To revamp his image after overhearing the kids call him boring, Grandpa launches into a preposterous, tongue-in-check tale of his adventures in and out of danger. But the grandchil­ dren get the last laugh by shouting “could be worse” at the tale’s end. .

The Alligator and His Uncle Tooth: A Novel of the Sea, Kilroy and the Gull, Nathaniel Benchley, Harper, Geoffrey Hayes, Harper, 1977, 88 pages, $5.95. (Gr. 3-6) 1977, 118 pages, $4.95: PLB $4.79. (Gr. 5-7) Corduroy, the youngest alligator resident in the Alliga­ Kilroy, a young killer whale (orca), is captured and tor House, is unhappy with his lot. He is sent to live with taken to a marineland aquarium which he shares with Auntie Hicks who runs a stationary store. An odd-looking a hostile dolphin. Bored and restless, Kilroy resorts to stranger visiting Auntie Hicks turns out to be Corduroy’s performing the same tricks as the dolphin except he Uncle Tooth, a crusty old sea captain. Although Auntie performs them for fun, not fish. A friendship develops Hicks doesn’t approve of her brother, Corduroy seeks with a seagull named Morris who listens to Kilroy phil­ the old alligator’s companionship whenever he can get osophize and removes the leftover fish scraps from away to listen to stories of intriguing adventures. Re­ Kilroy’s teeth. Together Morris and Kilroy are able to calling old voyages spurs Uncle Tooth into deciding to trick the humans into releasing him to rejoin his pod. travel again. He convinces his nephew that it is time for Interwoven with the fantasy are scientific facts about Corduroy to strike out for a life of his own and offers life in an orca pod. Corduroy the position of first mate on his ship. And so they sail one fine bright morning to see what adventures Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor lay before them. Coerr, Putnam, 1977, 64 pages, $6.95. (Gr. 3-6) Sadako lived in the city of Hiroshima, Japan, with The Quicksand Book, Tomie De Paola, Holiday, 1977, her family. She was only two when the atom bomb was unpaged, $6.95. (Gr. 1-3) dropped. When Sadako was 12 she was the fastest run­ The vine breaks while Jungle Girl is swinging through ner in her class and was chosen to represent her class in the air and she lands in quicksand. As she sinks deeper the big relay race on Field Day. Because the running and deeper, Jungle Boy lectures on what quicksand is, made her dizzy, she was taken to the hospital for a rest how it works, where it is found, and which survival strat­ and there it was discovered she had leukemia, “the egies work. Rescued just in time, Jungle Girl is soon atomic bomb disease.” During the long days ahead leisurely enjoying her tea and repeating the newly learned Sadako folded paper cranes. There is a legend that a advice to Jungle Boy who has now fallen in himself. An crane lives 1,000 years and if 1,000 paper cranes are interesting and entertaining format to present basic science folded it will induce the gods to make the sick person information. well. Before her death Sadako folded 644 cranes. Her classmates folded the remaining 356 so that the thou­ Mr. Yowder and the Steamboat, Glen Rounds, Holiday sand were buried with her. Today a statue of Sadako House, 1977, $5.95. (Gr. 1-3) holding a golden crane stands in Hiroshima Peace Park In a well-spun tall tale set during the Depression era, and visiting children leave paper cranes they have made Mr. Yowder goes East to New York City. While attempt­ in her honor. ing to locate a quiet out-of-the-way fishing hole he finds himself heading for the deep sea. He is rescued from fur­ ther disaster by a steamboat captain. To pass the time of day a card game is started and Mr. Yowder’s cardsharping wins the licenses of the captain and a harbor pilot. There are more preposterous adventures as Mr. Yowder delivers the passengers to their hotels from right off the steamboat. DINOSAUR FILMSTRIPS AVAILABLE READING WITH A PURPOSE

Eight filmstrips on dinosaurs are available for borrow­ Arkansas City — A small volunteer group of students ing from Hutchinson. They add zing to a program or and teachers has been reading and evaluating children’s special event for the Dinosaur Summer Reading Program. books since last summer to prepare suggestions for the Each is about 15 minutes in length. William Allen White Book Selection Committee. The titles are: Dinosaurs, by Ilia Podendorf; Jimmy The program was started three years ago by Joyce and the Dinosaur Giants, The Discovery of the World’s Fallier, children’s librarian here, when the committee Largest Dinosaur, Dinosaur Tales: The Monster of the asked for suggestions from readers. Lagoon, Dinosaur Tales: Diploducus Meets the First At a preliminary meeting April 30 the list of books Bird, Dinosaur Tales: Baby Horned-Face and the was narrowed. Since then, the reviewers have been Egg-Stealer, Dinosaur Tales: The Last of Tyrannosaurus concentrating on the smaller list and new books as Rex, and Digging for Dinosaurs. they arrived. In a final reckoning, four books were found to be SAVE OUR POSTAGE favored—The Golden Venture, Jane Flory; The TV Kid, Betsy Byars; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor; and Into the Painted Bear Lair, Pamela Stearns. The Rotating Book Service van is doing a lot of in- Other favorites were: Flint Hills Foal, Dorothy B. system “mail’' delivery these days. The van will take Francis; Two That Were Tough, Robert Burch; Beat over all distribution of these supplies: new book order the Turtle Drum, Constance C. Greene; Warton and forms, book pockets and cards, catalog cards, interlib­ Morton, Russell E. Erickson; Abel’s Island, William rary loan forms, jiffy mailers, plastic book jackets and Steig; and By Crumbs, It’s Mine! Patricia Beatty. record holders. But the postal service still is doing some of the work. SUMMER READING ROUNDUP Send directly to the SCKLS Processing Center, through the regular mail: orders for card sets, com­ Valley Center — An entertaining story about dino­ pleted book orders, and additions and withdrawals saurs in the library, written by Valley Center’s new from the system’s union catalog. The address of the processing Center is 2000 North librarian, Lorna Stover, appeared in the Ark Valley Jackson, Hutchinson, Kan. 67501 News in July. Supposedly it’s told by Socrates, the library mouse. SEARCH FOR PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS He finds the library basement suddenly is occupied by 72 dinosaurs made by the 72 children who attend­ In preparation for an October institute on children’s ed a Summer Reading Program session on clay model­ services, Winnie Lichtenwalter, assistant director of the ing. During the day the dinosaurs were dummies, but Leavenworth Library, is trying to locate outstanding at night they snorted and charged and kicked up the programs for preschoolers and their parents over the dust. When Soc is about ready to give in to nervous state. fright and leave, the dinosaurs are packed in boxes The institute is to be sponsored at the Kansas Lib­ and the librarians say they will be fired. rary School, Emporia State University, by the Pre­ Soc is really puzzled. What kind of work can dino­ school and Parent Services Committee of the Children’s saurs do in a library? Arkansas City — More than 450 readers and 100 Services Division, American Library Association., pre-schoolers have been enrolled in the Summer Read­ A part of the institute will be spotlighting innovative ing Program here. By mid-July 93 children had read preschool activities. Ms. Lichtenwalter asks: Do you have such a pro­ the required 10 books and signed their names on the gram? Do you know of one you would be willing to “We Read 10” dinosaur footprint. recommend? If you have something special for pre­ A collection of fossils is being displayed in the Mem­ schoolers, would you send samples of bibliographies, orial Show Case. These are of special interest to the bookmarks, etc. as examples? children since some of the items are of dinosaur origin. Information should be sent to: Winnie Lichtenwalter, Young readers have been invited to create their own Leavenworth Public Library, 5th and Walnut, Leaven­ dinosaurs out of materials of their choice and display worth, 66048. them at the library. COMPUTER CATALOG PROGRESS REPORT painting of ceiling and walls was accomplished in eight days by a painting contractor. Last summer “We’re on the K’s but also doing some P’s,” said Reta the library staff applied two coats of ceiling paint Graber, head of the SCKLS technical processing depart­ which brightened the interior. ment. She was talking about the work of transferring the system’s union catalog to computer and eventually WE’RE SORRY to microfilm. Eight extra people are working on the project and The front page picture of celebrities at the Sterling completion is in sight by the end of the year. Library in the July Sun was inadvertently reversed. The identification for the lower picture should have CATALOG FILE WANTED read, left to right, Joyce Webb, library assistant; Lita Zimmerman, patron; Mrs. Del Randolph, mem­ WANTED: Used wooden catalog file, cheap, Teresa ber of the decorating committee; and Mrs. Glen Welch, Burkey, Hesston Library. president of the Sterling Library Board.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS

Arkansas City — New members of the Arkansas City Library board are: Charles Dumenil, Dr. Andre DuChateau and Mrs. Robert A. Brown, chairperson.

REDECORATION AT EL DORADO

El Dorado -- The interior of Bradford Memorial Lib­ rary was repainted during June. Thanks to revenue shar­ ing money provided by the city of El Dorado, the

The SUN-Newsletter South Central Kansas Library System 901 N. Main St. Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 + + * Director-Duanc F. Johnson Editor-Mary Anne Crabb

ERNESTIN" GILLILAND, STATE LTBRN, KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 335 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA, KANSAS 0660? SCKLS SUN

South Central Kansas Library System 901 North Main I iutchinson, Kansas 07001

September, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 9

HEAR BOOK WORLD NEWS AT BOOK FAIR SEPT. IS

Five area authors of books on crafts and skills will appear at the Book Fair of South Central Kansas Lib­ rary System Thursday, Sept. 15, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Book Buggy Rolls—El Dorado has had the ser­ at the Holiday Inn Holidome. vices of a Book Buggy, above, at four stops over the They are Carolyn Schultz, Newton, and Adelia city this summer. With the jazzy little trailer are Stucky, Moundridge, authors of “Wheat Weaving Made Brian Beattie, librarian at Bradford Memorial, and Easy,” who will show their book and demonstrate their Hobe Murray, member of Friends of the Library. art: Meribeth Kaufman and Pat Klassen, Moundridge (Editor’s Note: Since Brian has been in The Sun twice recently, to appear again in the next few sisters, authors of the paperback, “Sweeten without months he will have to win the Nobel Prize.) Sugar,” which contains more than 300 tested sugarless recipes; and Pauline Stacy, Meade, author of “Ventrilo­ NEW LIBRARIANS IN SYSTEM quists, Here’s How,” who will bring puppets and de­ monstrate ventriloquism. Halstead — Leanne Voth, Halstead, has been named librarian at Halstead Library, succeeding LoAnna Basore. David Youngstrom, the hit of past Book Mount Hope — New librarian at the Mount Hope Lib­ Fairs, again will present reviews of new fall rary is Mrs. Pauline Moore, formerly the assistant. Sharon books. A representative of Gordon’s Books, Foltz resigned to begin working at Cessna in Hutchinson. Inc., Denver, he will have books to show and lists to hand out. LIBRARY CALENDAR

The display, Books on Exhibit, and other special col­ Sept. 12 — SCKLS executive committee meeting, lections will be available for browsing. Barb Slater, of 2 p.m., Hutchinson Library. the SCKLS processing department, will preside at a bar­ Sept. 15 — SCKLS Book Fair, Holiday Inn Holidome, gain table. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. An informal luncheon will be served from a sandwich Oct. 13 — SCKLS Film Festival, Wichita Library buffet at noon. auditorium. And don’t forget those other events going on at the Nov. 10 - SCKLS Workshop, “Young Adults and same time The State Fair, of course, and at the Hutch­ the Library,” with author, Richard Peck, inson Library, the Mid-America Arts Alliance Exhibition and Topeka librarian, Mike Printz, of historical photographs of the Sioux Rosebud Reserv­ Hutchinson. ation. Nov. 14 — Children’s Book Week, theme, “Read All See you at the fairs. About It.”

/ 0 ( m o - 9 LET’S PRETEND SERIES TO START SEPT. 20

Mildred Boyersmith, SCKLS children’s service con­ sultant, will start the Let’s Pretend series of programs for pre-schoolers in system libraries on Sept. 20 with a visit to the Mulvane Library. She will conduct a demonstration story hour in sys­ tem libraries during the series. Several new story ideas will be presented, along with ways to use records and Geneseo-Probably in honor of the dinosaur theme, perhaps filmstrips. Teachers and others who work with the Geneseo Library had a surprise visitor to its Sum­ young children may be invited to attend. mer Reading Program. An eight-inch salamander Reservations for the Let’s Pretend visit can be made strolled in and looked around. He was assisted back by calling Mildred. into the street by the librarian and a friend. Thirty-two readers registered in the Geneseo pro­ gram and 24 completed the 10-book reading goal. Each INTRA-SYSTEM BORROWING child reading 10 books was given a gift certificate for SETS MONTHLY RECORD a treat at the local drug store and his choice of a cut­ out dinosaur. Intra-system borrowing, transactions between SCKLS libraries other than Hutchinson, set an all-time record in July, according to Bert Newton, head of interlibrary Leon—For the last session of the Summer Reading loan. Program, members of the Library Dinosaur Club, grades A total of 232 intra-system loans were recorded in one to four, took a field trip to see a rock collection July. The count might be a little higher than in. most which included rocks that resembled dinosaurs, bears, other months because July was a 5-Friday month. This rabbits, dogs, cats ghosts, U. S. map and many other is important in intra-system borrowing because that’s strange forms. the day such mail is sent from Hutchinson. In June the After guessing the formations and looking for fossils, total was 162 and in April, also a 5-Friday month, it the children had a picnic lunch of Brachiosaurus sea­ was 210. weed (celery stuffed with peanut butter), baked Intra-system borrowing involves sending a request to Triceratops; (ham and cheese snacks), Stegosaurus spikes ILL at Hutchinson system headquarters where it is (potato sticks), dinosaur eggs (candy) and Trachodon checked in the union catalog. Of course, if Hutchinson juice (lemonade). has the book available, it is used to fill the request. If not, the request and a mailing label are sent to the first library on the list of those having the book. If the book is available there, the label is used to send it dii> Canton—Thirty children enrolled in the Summer ectly to the requesting library. If the first library does Reading Program here. Sharon Yost, the storyteller, not have the book, the request is sent back to Hutchinson, presented several programs on dinosaurs. Story hour which tries the next library on the list. was held twice a month, but will be only once a month A new employe in ILL is Lee Ann Rohrer, who replaces during the school term. Dianne Barb, a student this fall at Emporia Staje Univer­ sity. Another worker new this summer is Pat Holland.

Wellington—Boys and girls in the Summer Reading LIBRARY ADDITION Program here have read more than 1,400 books. Each time a participant reads 10 books a giant dinosaur foot­ McPherson—The McPherson Library has added a print (approximately 5 by 7 inches) goes up on the wall watercolor by Jinx Wright of Hutchinson and a pic­ with his name on it. Many pre-schoolers visited the lib­ ture by Betty Jo Houchen, McPherson High School rary and enjoyed the activity sheets of the reading pro­ art teacher, to its check-out picture collection. gram. School-age registrants totaled 222. English language—the difference between sound-alike words, the verbing of nouns, placement of adverbs. Along with Edwin Newman, Bernstein is trying to keep English usage from becoming English loosage.

Put Down and Ripped Off, Nora Scott Kinzer, Crowell, 1977, $7.95 The promise of beauty and romance, presented in vari­ ous alluring forms, is enough to get Americans to spend BOOK LOOK millions on cosmetics and hairdressers. This is a clever expose* of advertising campaigns and the less-than-glam- orous aspects of the giant business.

Marathon, Jules Witcover, Viking, 1977, 656 pages, Adlai Stevenson and the World, John Bartlow Martin, $14.95. Doubleday, 1977, $15. The cumulative story of the 1976 presidential cam­ The story of a brilliant, perhaps too-charming man, paign is told here at length, almost as a thoroughgoing his political rise and decline. He missed the major figure newspaper story. Witcover, a respected correspondent, role and gradually succumbed to pettiness. goes into the backgrounds of all the candidates and shows the strategies that brought Jimmy out on top. The People Shapers, Vance Packard, Little, Brown, It might seem like warmed-over oatmeal, but almost 1977, $12.5(1 every reader will find facts he missed the first time Vance Packard writes more about the human conse­ around and he can refresh his memory of minor char­ quences of advanced technology. He is concerned about acters and events. genetic tampering, behavior modification, universal data files and psychosurgery. He points out the object is to I Heard My Sister Speak My Name, Thomas Savage, achieve docile people and citizens should become better Little, Brown, 1977, $8.95. informed about manipulative techniques. Family life, with its high moments and miseries, is portrayed through the eyes of an old man who event­ Eastward Ha! S. J. Perelman, Simon and Schuster. ually is reunited with his sister. The sister was adopted 1977, pages, $6.95. as a child by a good family, but felt that she didn’t These nine travel reports by Humorist Perelman are quite belong. It is not until her adoptive parents die informative, entertaining reading. He visits Scotland, and she opens a letter revealing her parentage that the Paris, Israel, Russia (where Liz Taylor is on location) sister, by then a well-to-do divorced woman, begins to and returns to Los Angeles. know her background. Life Is a Banquet, Rosalind Russell, Random House, The Mechanical Baby, Daniel Beekman, Lawrence 1977,~$T0 Hill, 1977, $12.95. The “nice Catholic girl” who handled her movie Child-rearing has always been a major concern of the career in business-like fashion weaves a good story. She human race, but how methods have changed. This his­ shows real fondness for her famous and lesser known torical review takes you from the rhymed couplets on co-workers and zest for her job. Her husband of 36 cold baths and swaddling clothes to concern for moral­ years adds information of her final illness and death. ity expressed by Rousseau, who abandoned five illegit­ imate children and never bothered to observe the little Moments of Being, Virginia Woolf, Harcourt, Brace, darlings. At one time the baby food companies had the Jovanovich, 1977, 198 pages, $8.95. last word. Then came Dr. Spock and the theories of the Another chapter on Bloomsbury, its origin, what it present. was and what it was not, is included in this book. The editor, Jeanne Schulkind, has selected pieces written by Woolf about the same events, first at an early age, Do’s, Donts and Maybes of English Usage, Theodore M. Bernstein, Times Books, 1977, $12.50. then from the perspective of maturity. Here’s help with some of the trickier points of the Bumie’s Hill; A Traditional Rhyme, illus. by Erik Blegvad, Atheneum, 1977. 24 pages. $6.95. (Gr. K-2) “Where’s the mouse1’ In her housie. Where’s her housie? In the wood.” Thus begins this cumulative question and answer rhyme. The book is beautifully illustrated with watercolor pictures of small children and impressive views of nature.

Don’t Hurt Laurie!, Willo David Roberts, Atheneum, 1977, 166 pages, $6.95. (Gr 4-6) After being assaulted by her mother. 11-year-old Laurie once more finds herself in the hospital receiv­ ing emergency treatment Because the nurse is suspi­ cious of Laurie’s frequent injuries, her mother Annabelle I’m Terrific, Marjorie Weinman, illus. by Kay Chorao, finds it necessary tor the family to move again and per­ Holiday House, 1977, 26 pages, PLB $5.95. (3-6 yrs.) suades the rest of the family to go along with the idea. Jason, a bear cub. does all the things he should do Annabelle, now remarried to a husband frequently out and awards himself gold stars for being so marvelous. of town, also has two stepchildren. But the attacks are “I’m terrific.” he tells himself and the other bears over only directed toward Laurie because Laurie reminds and over. However, he loses all his friends because the Annabelle of the husband who deserted her. One day other bears do not agree. Then Jason tries being nasty stepson Tim witnesses Annabelle beating Laurie into which doesn’t work either. After some thinking, Jason unconsciousness and the children take refuge with Tim’s decides who he really wants to be and he is quickly grandmother. There is a satisfying climax and things accepted by the other cubs. appear to look up for Laurie and her mother.

I’m Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in the War of the Revolution, Patricia Clapp. Lothrop, 1977, 176 pages, $6.50, PLB $5.61. (Gr. 5-7) A fictionalized account of a young girl who, disguised as Robert Shurtlieff, served and fought as a private in the Continental Army. Deborah, one of a large family of children parceled out by her poor widowed mother, was indentured until she was 18 into a family with eight sons. Deeply in love with one of the sons, Deborah watched her foster brothers leave home one by one to fight in the Revolution. When the boy she loved was killed by the British, Deborah enlisted. How she man­ aged to keep the secret of her sex until she was hos­ pitalized, is a dramatic and sometimes humorous story.

Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey, Atheneum, 1977, 264 pages, $7.95. (Gr. 5-8) This excellent novel is a sequel to the science fiction fantasy, Dragonsong. With the Masterharper, Menolly arrives at Harper Hall to become an apprentice. Her tal­ ent as a song writer and harpist and her fire lizards bring forth admiration from some and envy from others. In time the friends she makes help her to see her real abil­ “Do you realize 28,439 grams o f prevention are worth ity as she struggles to become a journeyman. .453 kilograms of cure? ” DUANE JOHNSON NAMED TO LIBRARY TASK FORCE

Duane Johnson, SCKLS director, has been appointed to a 16-member library task force named by Gov. Robert Bennett. The group is charged with the study of dupli­ cation of library services, use of existing resources and administration of programs. Other members are: Ernestine Gilliland, state lib­ rarian, formerly of Hutchinson; Louise Dial, Derby; Jasper Schad, Wichita; Jane Byrd, Ottawa; Kathleen Egan, Atchison; Leroy Fox, Leawood; Gail Merrill, Marion; Margaret Moore, Hill City; Mrs. Jerry Pettle, Manhattan; Jim Ranz, Lawrence; Sara R. Reed, Emporia; Carl H. Sperry, St. Francis; Mike Tacha, Chanute; Fred Young, Dodge City; and Judy K. Raile, St. Francis. during the first 20 minutes, then assist those attending NEW LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS in family research.

Turon—Mrs. Susan Lowe is a new member of the Turon Library Board. She takes the place of Vicki JMRT MEMBERSHIP CONTEST Calahan, who has moved to Wichita. Canton—Mrs. Sue Esley replaces Mrs. Lois Phillis on A membership contest, open to all members of Kansas the Canton Library Board. Mrs. Phillis has moved to Library Association, is being sponsored by the Junior Hutchinson. Members Round Table of the association. Anyone who signs up three or more members to JMRT will receive a LANDSCAPING TIME year’s free membership to JMRT. The person who signs up the most members will receive a year’s subscription Newton—The northwest corner of the Newton Lib­ to The Unabashed Librarian. rary grounds is being transformed into a sculpture gar­ JMRT members must be members of KLA and meet den. It will be a sunken area with sidewalks and stone one of the following requirements: 1) in the library pro­ benches. fession five years or less 2) employed in Kansas five years or less 3) age 35 years or less or 4) currently en­ CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK THEME rolled in a library school. Dues are $2 yearly. For more information contact Babette Beach, 103 West 7th, “Read All About It” will be the theme of Children’s Junction City, 66441. Book Week Nov. 14-20. At Wellington boys and girls will help build a giant book worm for the week. E-STATE ANNOUNCES WORKSHOPS AND COURSES GENEALOGY SESSIONS POPULAR Among the off-campus classes scheduled by Emporia Arkansas City—Librarian Cleo Budd presented gen­ State University’s School of Library Science this fall are ealogy session for Arkansas City Library patrons recently. two of interest to Hutchinson area residents. She stressed materials at the library and other sources They are Principals of Materials Selection, to be given available through the library. Seventeen out of a regis­ at the Hutchinson Library, 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, begin­ tration of 20 were present. ning Oct. 13, two hours credit, Marcia Lundin instructor; Newton—Rebecca Sue Hatton, reference librarian, and Interpersonal Relationships relating to Library, to be will conduct genealogy sessions at the Newton Library given on Telenet (Hutchinson Community College class­ this winter on the first Tuesday of each month, begin­ room), 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning Aug. 31, ning Oct. 4. She will speak on a phase of genealogy two hours credit, Florence DeHart instructor. (continued) Special workshops of the School of Library Science IT HAPPENED AT THE LIBRARY this year are: Growing through the Passages of Life: Information for the Adult Woman, Saturday, Sept. 24, Hutchinson Library workers are chuckling over a 9-12 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7-10 p.m., Saturday, couple of incidents. Oct. 29, 9-12 a.m., W. A. White Library, E-State, Catherine Steele, a Green Thumb worker in the Florence DeHart; The Early Years, an Institute on Pre- Mail-a-Book Department, was being super-efficient School Services and Parent Education, Oct. 2-4, Mem­ when she hurried across the street from the library orial Union, E-State, Feme Johnson, director; The to get the library mail in the box by 4 p.m. Trouble is, Librarian as Manager, Feb. 27-March 3, White Library, the mail concealed a couple of time cards of workers Kenneth Beasley; Convocations with Library Journal in Catherine’s department. Catherine then had to cool editor, John Berry, April 12, 13, 7-10 p.m., White Lib­ her heels and wait around for the mailman to open the rary; May Massee Workshop, June 12-16, Memorial box and give her back the time cards. Union. Juvenile Judge E. Victor Wilson has a reason for using his full formal name. He used to be plain Vic Wilson. When he was asked for payment of a fine at the library PAPERBACK RACKS NEEDED and found out it was run up by another Vic Wilson, he then and there, became E. Victor.

El Dorado—The used book sale area is being moved MORE MICROFILM from the basement to the main floor at Bradford Memorial Library. Needed are book racks of shallow Arkansas City—More microfilm of the Arkansas City depth suitable for paperbacks. Almost any free-standing Traveler has been added to the Arkansas City Library. shelving would be considered. The sale area will be about Only 12 years of the Traveler’s existence are missing 9 by V/i feet. now. A new microfilm reader-printer also has been acquired.

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ERNESTINE GILLILAND, STATE Linn n, KANSAS STATE LIBRARY 535 !(A NBAS A V E N U E TOPEKA, KANSAS 66603 STATE LIBRARY OCT V 197'/ In October the workshop will be a Film Festival at the Wichita Library auditorium under the direction of SCKIS Sondra Koontz. The Oct. 13 schedule will be: coffee, 9:30 to 10 a.m.; films, 10 to 11:45 a.m.; lunch, 11:45 SUN to 1:15 p.m.; and films again, 1:15 to 4 p.m. Those who want to pack a lunch may eat it in the library staff room.

South Central Kansas Library System Author Richard Peck, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Topeka 901 North Main Librarian Mike Printz will be speakers at the Nov. 10 Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 workshop at the Hutchinson Library. They will present books for young adults and ways to interest young adults in books. The workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. October, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 10 The January workshop will be combined with the semi-annual SCKLS board meeting on Jan. 9 at the Holidome. At the morning workshop session, beginning at 9:30 a.m., Steve Jacobs of Nemaha Book Sellers, Goff, Kan., will present information on antiquarian books. His talk will emphasize ways to recognize rare books and how to take care of them. The system board meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in an adjacent Regency Room at the Holidome. On Feb. 28 the Spring Book Fair is scheduled at the Holidome, again with David Youngstrom reviewing new books. While finances will not permit lunch to be served at all workshops, it proved so successful at the Fall Book Fair that it is planned again at January and February workshops. Children’s books were awarded as door prizes during the Fall Book Fair. The winners were: Geneseo, Pretty Prairie, Arlington, Kiowa, Bushton, Burrton, El Dorado, Canton, Arkansas City, Harper, Turon, Partridge, Argonia, Augusta, Cheney, Sylvia, Zenda, Valley Center, Lindsborg, Newton, Garden City, Nickerson, Derby, Wellington, Lois Yoder, retiring librarian, and her husband Keith, were Douglass and Ulysses Public Libraries, Buhler Unified honored at an open house at Cheney Public Library which was decorated in their honor. New librarian at Cheney is Mrs. Mary School District, McPherson College, Little River High Roembach, to be assisted by Betty Scott. School, North Reno School, Union Valley School.

TOP-NOTCH WORKSHOPS PLANNED THROUGH WINTER

Last month's highly successful Book Fair began a winter series of outstanding workshops for South Cen­ tral Kansas librarians. About 200 librarians and friends attended the review sessions for new fall books and luncheon at the Holiday Inn Holidome. David Youngstrom of Denver showed apd reviewed an intriguing list of new fall books. NEW BOARD MEMBERS ON JOB FUTURE EVENTS Udall — Bea Leiblie has been named a new member Oct. 10 — SCICLS executive committee meeting, of the Udall Library board. 2 p.m., Hutchinson Library. Pretty Prairie — New members of the Pretty Prairie Oct. 13 - SCKLS Film Festival, Wichita Library Library board are Lewis Martin and Mrs. Ed (Judi) auditorium, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Markel. Nov. 10 — SCKLS Workshop, “Young Adults and Cunningham — Mrs. David Amick, former librarian, the Library,” with author, Richard Peck, has replaced Rev. Harry Graves on the Cunningham and Topeka librarian, Mike Printz, Library board. Rev. Graves has moved to Great Bend. Hutchinson Public Library, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 14 — Children’s Book Week, theme, “Read CARPETING FROM REVENUE SHARING All About It.” Jan. 9 — Workshop on antiquarian books, 9:30 a.m.; El Dorado — The north wing of the Bradford Memorial semi-annual trustees’ meeting, 2 p.m., Library here will be carpeted in October with revenue Holiday Inn Holidome. sharing funds provided by the city. The work will be done Feb. 28 — Spring Book Fair, Holiday Inn Holidome, in three post-midnight work sessions. 9:30 a.m. The Bradford Library also will start a story hour for four and five-year olds Oct. 21. There will be morning NEW GENEALOGY ROOM and afternoon sessions on Fridays. A spring session from February to Easter also is planned. Gay Ison, children’s Kingman — A new Genealogy Room has been estab­ librarian, will be in charge, assisted by Debbie Powell. lished at the Kingman Library. It contains a microfilm reader and good selection of genealogy materials. Estab­ lished by the Branches and Twigs Club, it still receives club support, in the' form of half-funding for the read­ er and a fund for materials. Many contributions have been given in memory of Martha Ellis.

SHE CHANGED HER MIND

Mount Hope — Sharon Foltz exercised that fabled privilege of women, she changed her mind. She de­ cided she didn’t want to leave Mount Hope for a job in Hutchinson after all, so will remain in the librarian’s post at the Mount Hope Library. A Children’s Story Hour was started Sept. 16 and will continue on Fri­ day mornings.

NEW LIBRARIANS

Valley Center — Lorna Stover, library assistant for several years, is the new librarian of the Valley Center THE LONGEST OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOR ON Library, succeeding Mrs. Clara Chavez, librarian the ■RECORD WAS A VOLUME ON FE V E R DISEASES past 13 years. Meg Stauffer is the assistant. THAT WAS CHECKED OUT IN 1823 FROM THE Pretty Prairie — Mrs. Doug (Linda) Finfrock has UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL LIBRARY become librarian at the Pretty Prairie Library. She THE BOOK WAS RETURNED IN 1968 BY RICHARD POPP WHO INHERITED IT FROM MEMBERS OF succeeds Mrs. Gen Bush. HIS FAMILY. THE FINE WAS CALCULATED TO BE Cunningham — Mrs. Don Becker succeeds Mrs. David $2,*46-BUT ST WAS WAIVED. Amick as librarian at the Cunningham Library. Sterling publishing Co. The Hittites, Johannes Lehman, Viking, 1977, 300 pages, $11.95. A little known people, the Hittites, emerge from ob­ scurity in recent research. This book will appeal to the scholar and also to the more casual reader interested in civilizations of long ago. At one time a dominant race in the area between the SCKLS Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Hittites faded away. The author explains new methods of exploration BOOK LOOK and deciphering their cuneiform writings, and the emer­ gence of their well-developed culture and roster of gods.

Love, Honor and Dismay, Elizabeth Harrison, Double­ Life at the Bottom, John Langone, Little, Brown, day, 1977, 202 pages, $7.95. 1977, 262 pages, $8.95. A well-born Welsh girl writes in entertaining style The bottom of the world, Antarctica, is the subject about her marriages to two actors, Richard Harris of this fascinating account. As large as the U. S. and and Rex Harrison. Mexico combined, it is the driest, windiest, highest and The first occurred while both were struggling in the coldest place on earth. English theater and lasted through three children and Langone describes his own preparations to go to the success in Hollywood for Richard Harris. However, place where only a handful of people have spent any Harris became increasingly hard to live with because of time, his observations and reactions, and includes anec­ violent outbursts of temper and drinking bouts. dotes of the great Antarctic explorers, Byrd, Cook, Scott. Later she became Wife No. 5 for Rex Harrison, who was attracted by her family aura, but turned out to be Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison, Knopf, 1977, much more interested in preserving his elegant back­ 337 pages, $8.95. ground and career. This marriage too ended in divorce. This skillfully written novel unfolds layers of secrets Interesting for inside theatrical impressions. of a black family in a big American city. In a way, it’s a man’s search for his roots. The telling is heightened Wake Up and Write, William Manners, Arco, 1977, by the authentic dialogue, remembered Southern back­ 127 pages, $2.95. ground and reaction to racism. This crisp little booklet tells a prospective author Macon Dead, the unlikely name of the hero, is the how to find the spare time to write, how to develop the son of the town’s richest black man and lives a some­ proper frame of mind for writing and how to submit what aimless life with his passive mother and two sisters. material. It even covers and discards all the excuses the The father’s sister, Pilate, lives in her off-limits boot­ writer has for not writing. legger establishment with a daughter and granddaughter. On a practical level, Manners lists sources of mater­ The two family branches become entwined again in a ials and inspiration, beginning with the library, markets search for gold. and writers’ publications.

The Oak and the Ivy, Joyce Marlow, Doubleday, Getting the Most Out of Your Fifties, Morton Puner, 1977, 301 pages, $10. Crown, 1977, 176 pages, $7.95. England’s four-time prime minister, William Gladstone, Being 50 today is both good news and bad. and his wife, Catherine, formed the first political husband Many of the beginning-of-life uncertainties are past, and wife team to campaign in England. but new ones, having to do with a certain feeling of dis­ Catherine had eight children, but she still found time placement, develop. to participate in public life and good works. William was The author says the fifties “are less tied to chrono­ involved with the notorious prostitutes of London, os­ logical age than ever before. Being in the fifties is now tensibly as their benefactor. more like being 35 or 40 years old a generation ago . . . They remained a popular couple through Queen We no longer have to decide whether we’re the newly Victoria’s reign and this smooth-reading book does old or the elderly young. Nor must we ‘act our age’ as well by their careers. though each of us were the same, operating by set (continued) standards. We are no longer captives of age, but we do The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, D. Manus have in common with fifties of the past all that we have Pinkwater, Prentice-Hall, 1977, 85 pages, PLB $5.95. learned, felt and done—our maturity.” (Gr. 4-6) The book deals in a realistic way with both the fears The butcher loses the order for the Bobowicz’s and the possibilities of being 50. Thanksgiving turkey so son Arthur searches the city for a replacement. He comes up with Henrietta, a 226-pound The Spacemaker, Ellen Liman, Viking, 1977, 117 chicken, the result of mad scientist Professor Mazzocchi’s pages, $9.95. growth experiments. Arthur and Henrietta develop a fond­ It’s amazing what can be done with imagination and ness for one another and permission is granted for a few feet of space. Closets can be turned into study Henrietta to become a pet. Havoc is created in the com­ areas, corners into offices. Diagrams show you how to munity when Henrietta gets loose. Her first attempts to do it, photographs illustrate the results. return to Arthur are futile, but at last they are happily reunited. Child Sense, William E. Homan M.D., Basic Books, 1977, 295 pages, $10.95. Ring Afound the Moon, comp, by Edith Fowke, A successful pediatrician believes the Dr., Spock gen­ Prentice-Hall, 1977, 160 pages, $6.95. (Gr. 2-6) eration of parents was led astray somewhat by permis­ A compilation of 200 riddles, rhymes, rounds, siveness. Basic needs in raising children, says Dr. Homan, tongue-twisters, and songs drawn from the oral trad­ are love, discipline and independence and love cannot ition of North America. This material should be useful take the place of the other two. for story hours, singalongs, and classrooms. Many situations are covered in this book, from feed­ ing, finger sucking and saving face to allowances, fear A Small Sheep in a Pear Tree, Adrienne Lobel, Harper, and family relationships. Calmness and common sense mark the advice of Dr. Homan. 1977, 30 pages, $5.95, PLB $5.79. (Gr. K-3) Substitute “sheep” for each of the traditional gifts re­ ceived in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and you have 78 silly sheep a-leaping, dancing, piping, drumming etc. across the pages in a frolicking new twist to an old fam­ iliar carol.

One Fat Summer, Robert Lipsyte, Harper, 1977, 160 pages^$^95^ PLB $5.79, (Gr. 6-10) Bobby Marks recalls how it was growing up in the fifties, fat and 14-years-old. His girl friend Joannie goaded him into getting a summer job. Bobby describes his determination to keep the exhausting job doing yard work, his loss of weight and gain of confidence, and the confrontation with a crazy drunk bully who felt Bobby took his job away.

Harriet and the Runaway Book ; The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Johanna tfelga’s Dowry: A Troll Love Story, Tomie De Paola, Johnston, illus. by Ronald Himler, Harper, 1977, 80 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, 32 pages, $7.95. pages, PLB $5.79. (Gr. 3-5) (Gr. K-3) A fictionalized biography of the woman President Helga, the loveliest Troll in three parishes, is also the Lincoln credited with helping to start the Civil War. As poorest and therefore Handsome Lars chooses to marry a child Harriet learned about the horror of slavery. When the rich but plain Inge. At first Helga cries hard enough she was a grown woman she wrote the novel, Uncle to cause a thunderstorm, but not for long. She sits down Tom’s Cabin. Large type on spacious pages with beauti­ to think about human weaknesses and then she starts ful line-and-wash illustrations give this book an inviting on a journey to earn herself a dowry by using her wits. appearance. Her real reward will surprise and delight the reader. INCREASED COSTS TO ADD and encouraging the children to check out what they TO PROCESSING, PRINTING CHARGES want. Sound film strips are popular too.

Because of increased book shipping costs, a five per BOOK SHELVING WANTED cent charge will be added to invoices from the Tech­ nical Processing Center beginning Oct. 1. Wanted: Six sections of doublefaced, free-standing The SCKLS executive committee made this decision shelving, to be used three on each side of the room. Con­ in September after reviewing the situation. tact Librarian Reva Weniger, Kingman Library. “In the area of book processing, inflation has in­ creased the costs of supplies as well as the prices of LIBRARY DAY AT LEISURE CENTER books,” said SCKLS Director Duane Johnson, “but we have been particularly hard hit in the area of book ship­ Medicine Lodge — Lincoln Library here presents ping costs. In past years many book suppliers shipped a Library Day at the newly organized Leisure Time Cen­ to us postpaid, but now standard procedure is to charge ter every Tuesday afternoon. Books, magazines and for shipping and the cost is added to their book invoices. records are taken to the center for browsing and checkout. We have no way to absorb this cost, so must begin pass­ “Medicine Lodge is proud of its new center,” said ing it along to you. The net result is that it’s going to Librarian Mary Wing, “and we are glad to do our part to come out of our book budgets.” help make it a success.” Another area of dramatic price increase is in printing. To keep this increase manageable, SCKLS member lib­ raries will be charged for the supplies used in their print­ ing projects, beginning Jan. 1. Rising costs continue to be a problem for the system, as well as for individual libraries. Suggestions for ways to cut costs without seriously harming library service will be welcome, Johnson said.

BARBARA MAC GREGOR NAMED TO LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION

Medicine Lodge — Mrs. Barbara MacGregor, long-time member of the Medicine Lodge Library Board, has been appointed to the Kansas Library Advisory Commission by Gov. Robert Bennett. She succeeds Mrs. Loren Pennington of Emporia. Katherine Culbertson of Phillipsburg also is a new appointee, succeeding Oneita Johnson of Pratt.

GROWING CHILDREN’S GROUP LOOKING FOR A NAME

McPherson — The daily 4 p.m. hour for older children at the McPherson Library is developing and attracting interest. Next step will be to find a name with zing for Mural painter—Cheryl Cook, Cheney High School senior, the group. works on a mural she painted in the children’s department Plans call for visits from people from the community of the Cheney Library. She painted the figure outlines as on topics such as art, music, hobbies, etc. At present projected by an opaque projector and filled in with acrylic members of the library staff are presenting music and paint. Cheryl, who works part-time as a librarian’s helper, received a scholarship for art work which enabled her to stories on records, serializing interesting books, display­ attend the Kansas University Music and Art Camp in ing groups of books on chosen topics, talking about books Lawrence this summer. McPh e r s o n l ib r a r y a c q u ir e s Add the third dimension to bulletin boards as well NEW ORIGINAL ART FOR CHECKOUT with textured fabric and objects that add pizzazz. Try stuffed animals, plastic, paper or silk flowers, small toys McPherson—The McPherson Library bought several and light weight objects. pieces of original art from artists who showed works at If your problem is no bulletin board or display area, the Art-in-the-Park exhibit in September. perhaps you could pick up tack board at your lumber The new pieces are: Hand puppets by Jacqueline yard and cover it with burlap. Thumb tacks go into it Phillips, oil by Barbara Jarvis, watercolors by Marlys easily. Penner, Maleta Forsberg and Elrene Stowe, pine cone Here are a few bulletin board ideas for the coming wreath by Georgia Lehman and Pennsylvania Dutch de­ months: sign woodcarving by Norma Lea Riddell. October — A “haunting” we will go; A wise choice These will be checked out to patrons along with 12 (owl); Trick or treat; “Kickoff” to good reading; A new framed art prints purchased from Elyria Arts Co. fall of favorites. To make room for the new acquisitions, the McPherson November — Drumstick days; Thoughts for Thanks­ Library weeded its framed art collection and put the dis­ giving; I’d stalk a mile for a good book; Caught on the cards up for sale. rebound (rebound books). December — Mistletoe and sleigh bells; Evergreen DISPLAY IDEAS tales; Let’s sing; By candle glow.

The best displays and exhibits incorporate “feelies,” says “Library Insights, Promotion and Programs.” Try to have something available that can be touched and felt. Large real things are exciting. Can you find room for a kite, a boat, clothing, furniture, tent, a pinata, a tree, an incubator to hatch chicks or a real scarecrow?

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eii neat inf gill TEA!!!), STATE LTHPN . K A i i b ri b S I ft I i ^ L IBKAn? 535 KA'iSAG A'/F. HUE TOPEKA{ KANSAS 66603 Wall decorations in the Children’s Room were created by George Charlsen, commercial artist at Cessna, and SCKLS Joe Fehrmann, high school music teacher, and completed by the National Honor Society of Campus High School, SUN which furnished paint and labor. The two men, who also planned the wall decorations for the Children’s Room in Emporia State’s W. A. White Library, made a gift of the decorations to Haysville. They South Central Kansas Library System are considering doing similar projects as an avocation. 901 North Main Hutchinson, Kansas 67501 Opening activities were sponsored by the Haysville Library Board and the Friends of the Library. On Satur­ day evening those who gave books, time or money were November, 1977 Vol. 7, No. 11 invited to the activities. On Sunday afternoon, the may­ or presided at a ribbon cutting and the public was in­ vited to open house. The first day of operation was HAYSVILLE LIBRARY OPENS Nov. 1. WITH CELEBRATION

Large crowds attended opening ceremonies of the JUDY DREHER NEW ASSISTANT Haysville Library Oct. 29 and 30. ON ROTATING BOOK SERVICE Many months of preparation have gone into establish­ ment of the newest addition to the South Central Kansas The new assistant on the Rotating Book Service Van, Library System. It is located in the leased west side of working through November, is Judy Dreher of Hutchin­ the old Hemphill School of USD 261 at 230 East Grand. son. Included are the main library room, librarian’s office, She is a graduate of St. Teresa’s High School, Hutchin­ workroom, Children’s Room, Historical Museum and son Community College and loves to read and knit. Her Community Room. The building also houses the Job sister, Patty Bolyard, is the assistant in the SCKLS busi­ Service Center for the Haysville area. ness office. Librarian is Betty J. Cattrell, who has had several Judy will travel with the van every other month. years of library experience in the Haysville School System. Beth Jones is the clerk and Gary Lundsford in charge of mainten­ ance.

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l/ 0 , ,710 ■ ( { AUTHOR RICHARD PECK IN THE LIBRARY FUTURE TO BE GUEST NOV. 10 Nov. 10 — SCKLS Workshops, “Young Adults and the Librarians of South Central Kansas and other interested Library,” with Author Richard Peck, Hutch­ persons may attend either a morning or afternoon session inson Library, duplicate sessions, 9:30 a.m. of the SCKLS workshop on young adult library services to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. starring Author Richard Peck on Nov. 10. Nov. 14 — Children’s Book Week, theme, “ Read All Duplicate sessions have been scheduled at About It.” the Hutchinson Library—9:30 a.m. to noon Jan. 9 — SCKLS Workshop on antiquarian books, 9:30 and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. a.m., semi-annual trustees’ meeting, 2 p.m. Two duplicate sessions were planned because of the Holiday Inn Holidome. expected large attendance to hear the author of “Re­ Feb. 28 — SCKLS Spring Book Fair, Holiday Inn Holi­ presenting Super Doll,” “The Ghost Belonged to Me,” dome, 9:30 a.m. “Are You in the House Alone? ” and other books for April 2-8 — National Library Week. young people, said Mildred Boyersmith, who is in charge April 23-25 - Kansas Library Association annual con­ of workshops. ference, Wichita. Mike Prinz, Topeka West High School librarian, who was June 25-July 1 — American Library Association annual to have been on the program also, had to cancel because of conference, Chicago. an evaluation of his high school on the day of the work­ shop. Prinz will come to SCKLS at a later date. 1978 MAIL-A-BOOK CATALOG Anyone interested in the workshops is invited TO BE SENT OUT FIRST OF YEAR to attend, Mildred said. Please call or write your reservation to the Hutchinson Library. The 37,500 new Mail-a-Book catalogs which will go to Peck, who lives in Englewood, N. J., has definite ideas SCKLS rural patrons early next year are being counted of what young people are reading and how parents can out for mailing. Earl Dodge, Mail-a-Book director, said communicate with their children. the first mailing for rural box holders will be in Reno and “When kids read books, they want to read stories about Sedgwick Counties, around Jan. 3. kids coping with problems whether they are serious or Counties receiving the new catalogs first are rotated light,” Peck said in Denver last spring. “They want to iden­ each year. Subsequent mailings follow about every two tify directly with their own peer group.” weeks, so that a large number is not dumped into the Peck grew up in Decatur, 111., served as an army clerk mail at one time. Remaining SCKLS counties will be outside Ansbach, Germany and attended Depauw College, served in this order: McPherson, Kingman, Harvey, Exeter College in England, and Southern Illinois Univer­ Harper, Cowley, Butler, Barber, Sumner, Stafford and sity. As a teacher, he studied the reading and writing hab­ Rice. its of his students. The attractive new 1978 catalog contains many new and best seller titles. About 850 books are listed in many categories for adults and children. Dodge said checkout procedures will be changed a little in 1978 in an effort to assure that the books are returned in a reasonable time. He emphasized the books serve a large number of readers and each reader should be sure to return his books on time.

“THE SPEAKER” AVAILABLE

“The Speaker,” controversial film produced by Ameri­ can Library Association, is available for loan to SCKLS libraries. The film, 42 minutes in length, is about a high school group’s decision to invite a speaker who believes minority races are inferior. Community and student pres­ sure brings out many arguments on the freedom of the press issue. Send requests for the film to The Sun. Crafting with Newspapers, Vivienne Eisner and William Shisler, Little Craft Book Series, Sterling, 1976, 48 pages, $3.75. Stop! Don’t discard that newspaper. Newspaper is strong and durable when folded and layered. It is long- lasting and, if painted or shellacked, it becomes even more durable. Make objects like bags, floor cushions, planters and even slippers to wear. This book is designed for people who like to work with their hands, but won’t read lengthy and complicated in­ In a Dark Wood, Marina Warner, Knopf, 1977, 250 pages, structions, who don’t have special workshops and who $8.95. can’t afford costly materials. It is a fun hobby for both This novel of considerably more than run-of-the-mill sub­ the serious or fun-loving person to eryoy at home. Pre-. stance concerns two brothers in London, a literary review serve your creations and they’ll last 200 years. editor touched by scandal in his magazine’s financing and a priest caught up in the ease and moral laxity of the day. Karen Ann: The Quinlans Tell Their Story, Joseph and Both are affected by their early lives in China. Running Julia Quinlan with Phyllis Battelle, Doubleday, 1977, $10. through the book is the parallel story of an early Chinese Parents of Karen Ann Quinlan, teen-ager who has been emporer and a Jesuit priest. Supporting characters, the comatose the past two years following drug usage, tell editor’s actress wife and daughters, provide viewpoints of their story in straightforward style. They had asked a the arts; women’s lib and war in the Far East. court to allow them to disconnect life-prolonging systems and the landmark case is described. The girl since has been Biohazard, Michael Rogers, Knopf, 1977, 209 pages, weaned successfully from the respirator, but remains un­ $8.95. conscious. Just where are we with the scary business of recombin­ ing parts of DNA, the heredity molecule, into new beings or substances? Here is an answer written by a non-expert Nature’s Healing Arts, Lonnelle Aikman, National Geo­ who learns on the job at a conference of top scientists at graphic Society, 1977, 196 pages, $4.95. Asilomar, California. From folk medicine to modem drugs, curatives used Explanations of discoveries and possibilities in the field over the ages are pictured and explained in their native are presented in lucid terms. setting. Sassafras, aloe leaves, foxglove, the poppy, are The author’s conclusion is that the future will happen among the natural substances presented. in terms of tiny incremental “technical decisions.” The narrative is written as a personal experience. Attrac­ “The progress of synthetic biology will never again tive illustrations are color photographs and specially com­ simply involve pure science. Each decision, each new tech­ missioned paintings. nique, each step forward will carry its new rider of ethics and responsibility and the sum of those tiny increments may some day represent one of the most profound ethical How Things Don’t Work, Victor Papanek and James and practical judgments in the history of the species.” Hennessey, Pantheon, 1977, 154 pages, $10. Many of our present “conveniences” and luxurious Feeling Fine, Dr. Art Ulene, Tarcher, 1977, 282 pages, appliances have been produced at great cost and great $7.95. ugliness. This book presents alternatives to conventional Dr. Ulene, “Today” show veteran, concentrates on “liv­ furnishings from all over the world. Several innovations ing in a stressful world without letting it overwhelm you.” are in the bathroom—a soft, foldable tub combined with Through a program of “growing pleasures, unstressing other fixtures, “telephone” type flexible shower that can pleasures, eating pleasures and body pleasures,” he hopes be used also to wash down the walls and slatted floor. to show the reader how to “use stress energies construc­ The authors suggest acquiring some expensive items tively, find ways to express himself emotionally and dis­ only if you can’t rent, borrow, lease, share, or build them cover that he can cope with and employ change positively.” from a kit or plans. They try for a common sense view of Written almost in outline form, the book is easy to use of scarce raw materials, pollution, and producing a follow and remember. practical product. Walpole, Syd Hoff, illus. by Syd Hoff, Harper, 1977, 32 pages, $4.95, PLB $4.79. (Gr. K-2) Walpole, the biggest and strongest of the walruses, pre­ ferred taking care of the baby walruses to becoming the leader of the herd. One day he had to go in search of two baby charges who had wandered away. He found the lost babies and returned to the herd just in time to chase off an invading polar bear. Then he agreed to become the leader.

Benny, Barbara Cohen, Lothrop, 1977, 154 pages, $5.95, PLB $5.21. (Gr 4-6) A warm family story set in 1939 in New Jersey. Benny The Happy Dromedary, Berniece Freschet, illus. by is 12 and loves playing baseball. Because his father can’t Glen Rounds, Scribners, 1977, 32 pages, $5.95. (Gr. K-3) see that playing ball is important he must help in the fam­ Millions of years ago the King of the Animals gave all ily store while the rest of his team is practicing. When he of the birds and beasts their choice of where to live and sneaks off to play in an important game he is punished dromedary picked the desert. But soon she had to go back by being left home from the much anticipated family trip to the King for large floppy feet suitable for walking on to the World’s Fair. On the same day, Arnulf, a young un­ sand and again for a hump to store food and water. The happy German refugee who has been staying with Benny’s dromedary was happy until the other animals laughed at uncle and aunt, runs away and it is Benny who finds him. her and declared her ugly. Again she returned to the King and asked to be changed back. Then the King made one The Dancing Granny, retold and illus. by Ashley Bryan, more change which gained her the admiration of all the Atheneum, 1977, 54 pages, $5.95. (Gr. K-3) other animals. Granny Anika, a joyful dancing old woman, has a beauti­ ful vegetable garden. Along comes crafty Spider Ananse to Exit from Home, Anita Heyman, Crown, 1977, 288 dance her away so he can raid her garden. Four times he pages, $7.50. (Gr. 7-9) is successful, but in the end his own trick “does him in” Samuel Rubinowitz, a 12-year.-old youth, and his ortho­ when Granny clutches Spider Ananse and forces him to dox Jewish family live in a small village in Russia. When dance with her. his beloved younger brother dies of smallpox, Samuel be­ lieves it is God’s punishment for his sins and he throws himself so diligently into his studies that he is recom­ mended to the Yeshiva to become a rabbi. There Samuel I begins secretly to read secular books, becomes active in the first stirrings of the Russian Revolution, and drops out of the Yeshiva. After witnessing his first pogrom, Samuel decides he will go to America.

I’ll Love You When You’re More Like Me, M.E. Kerr, Harper, 1977, 160 pages, $6.95, PLB $6.79. (Gr. 7-10) Wally Witherspoon seems destined, much against his wishes, to become a funeral director like his father. Then one summer day on the beach he meets Sabra St. Amour, the glamorous teen-age soap-opera actress. Sabra has been so busy with her career she has never had a date. The story is alternately told by Wally and Sabra. Over the summer the young people involved start talking about their futures and make some important decisions. The concerns are real, "MW t-SPEWC to Yovll ft£C0ft0IA£lflLE4SE... but this book is fun to read. The adults are superbly cari­ UfT ACC0 STMEO To TAUC«^6 TO *EAL catured. People." THE LATEST IN BOOKMARKS

Arkansas City —Phyllis Tilson, Arkansas City Library SEARCH FOR A TITLE assistant, holds the latest title for finding strange items lurking in the pages of returned library books. How important is the title to the success of the As she leafed through a book just returned by a story? An article in the New York Times Magazine woman, she found a $ 100 bill. Was there a reward, Phyllis? reveals that Hemingway archives contain a working The story reminded Ruth Sanders, of the SCKLS staff sheet listing 29 possible titles for “A Farewell to of the weirdest bookmark she ever found—a strip of Arms,” Hemingway’s novel about World War I. bacon. Among them: ‘‘Love in War,” “Sorrow for Can anybody top that? Pleasure,” “Late Wisdom,” “The Enchantment,” “If You Must Love,” “Every Night and All,” “Of PRIDE AWARDS TO SCKLS TOWNS Wounds and Other Causes,” “The Retreat from Italy,” “Disorder and Early Sorrow,” “Death Once Four of the Pacemaker Awards in the PRIDE program Dead.” went to towns in South Central Kansas Library System. Hemingway also considered different titles for They are Hesston, McPherson, Newton and Walton. Pace­ other books and stories. For example, he origin­ maker Awards recognize outstanding community improve­ ally called his safari book “Africa Is Cold.” But ment. he later changed it to “Green Hills of Africa.” Other PRIDE (Programming and Initiative for Devel­ And the story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” be­ opment Effectiveness) awards in the system were: Overall gan life under another name. It was originally achievement, McPherson, $700 first place; Canton, $300 called “The Happy Ending.” third place; and Lindsborg, $200 fourth place. For a short story about a hunter who gets shot by his wife, Hemingway again made a list of possi­ NEW BOARD MEMBERS ble names: “A Marriage Has Been Arranged,” “The Com­ Colwich—The Colwich Library was in the fortunate ing Man,” “The New Man,” “The Short Happy position of having 13 citizens agree to nomination for Life of Francis Macomber,” “The End of the Mar­ three openings on the library board. Elected were Barbara riage,” “Marriage Is a Dangerous Game,” “The Simon, to succeed Luella Linnebur; Susie Maus to succeed More Dangerous Game,” “A Marriage Has Been Janet Wagner; and Julie Sein to succeed Eloise Wolfe. Terminated,” “The Ruling Classes,” “The Fear Partridge—Ethel Bales and Connie Webb are new mem­ of Courage,” “The Cult of Violence,” “The Strug­ bers of the Partridge Library board. Connie replaces gle for Power.” Pearl Hartzell who completes a term and Ethel Bales re­ places Janice Conners who moved from the community. IT’S THE REEL THING

Four new films are highly recommended by the staff of the State Film Center. They are: “The Day of Empire,” 58-minutes, color, about Euro­ pean reigning royal families in the early 1900’s. Contains some early black and white film clips. “Seconds to Play,” 28 minutes, color, how a television network (ABC) puts together a sports program, in this case a football game. “The Gardens of San Simeon,” 25 minutes, color, a travelog to the Hearst Castle in California. “Palio,” 30 minutes, color, about a horse race in Italy, in which anything goes. The horses are taken to church for a blessing and to a feast. Betting is rampant and the race is run bareback. YOU, TOO, CAN CREATE brochures,” “lettering,” etc. Whenever you see anything OUTSTANDING DISPLAYS you could ever make use of, clip it and file it.

Here are a few tips for creating patron-stopping dis­ You will find that surrounding ypurself with plays found in recent publications. materials you deem excellent and adaptable will When planning and working, always go further than pay off handsomely. Your idea files should not you think you should. That further step is creativity. be for outright copying purposes, but for in­ To make a point, exaggerate with your headline or spirational purposes. Know yourself and how art work to get the viewer’s full attention. you work. Collect things which lend themselves Can you draw as well as you did when you were a to your style of doing things. child? The bold and fearless “can do no wrong” strokes which form stick figures, sunshine circles and not quite The library is full of good ideas, especially the chil­ correct animals can serve you well. Unleash your adult dren’s book area. That’s where more simplicity is found, inhibitions and give this art a try on your next bro­ which is what you want. chure. Or have some kid do it for you. Keep a good idea file. Set aside a drawer with files marked “people,” “plants,” “animals,” “good library

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Three new members will be elected to the executive Mrs. Annie Hodgson, Little River, has been serving on committee of the South Central Kansas Library System the executive committee in this capacity. board of trustees at the semi-annual board meeting at Other business to come before the board includes a the Hutchinson Holidome Monday, Jan. 9. report by a system evaluation committee authorized The board will convene for its semi-annual meeting by the executive committee at its November meeting. at 2 p.m., with Mrs. Edna Buschow of Valley Center, (See page 2). chairman, presiding. The membership will elect exec­ Actually the day’s program will begin utive committee members to succeed Mrs. Buschow with a workshop on antiquarian books at and Mrs. Vee Voran of Pretty Prairie. 9:30 a.m. Steve Jacobs of Nemaha Book­ Nominations for the two four-year posi­ sellers, Goff, Kansas, will lead the discus­ tions may be submitted on the blank at the sion. bottom of this page. Please fill out the blank A buffet luncheon will be served at noon. and return it to SCKLS Headquarters, 901 The morning session will conclude with a showing North Main, Hutchinson, Kansas, 67501. of “The Speaker.” controversial film produced this Nominations also will be accepted from the floor. year by the American Library Association. The issue, The third new committee position is to be filled on an intellectual freedom theme, is a high school pro­ from the new group of governor’s appointees to the gram by a speaker who believes in tire inferiority of board. (See page 2). Nominations for this position are minority races. the responsibility of Librarian Duane Johnson.

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SCKLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION 1978

I have confirmed the interest and availability of the trustee representative named below and hereby place his or her name in nomination for the 1978 SCKLS Executive Committee:

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A committee to evaluate SCKLS services and prior­ Gov. Robert Bennett has appointed representatives ities, authorized at the November meeting of the ex­ from each of the 12 counties of the South Central ecutive committee, is expected to complete its work Kansas Library System to the system board of trustees. in record time and have a report and recommenda­ The appointments were effective on announcement tions ready for the Jan. 9 meeting of the board of Nov. 18. trustees. The new appointees are: The evaluation committee, which met late in Novem­ Barber County - Dorothy K. Fritz, Box 9, Lake City. ber in Newton, decided to survey system librarians and Butler — Jessie L. Boyer, RR 1, El Dorado. board members for their opinions on system services. Cowley - Beatrice D. DeVore, RR 3, Box 222, Survey forms are to be returned to Hutchinson by Arkansas City. Dec. 20. The evaluation committee will meet again to Harper — Mary Katherine Francis, RR 1, Anthony. analyze the response and formulate recommendations. Harvey - Lucille Brubacher, RR 2, Box 199,Newton. Members of the committee are: Colena Austin, Part­ Kingman — Kathleen M. Whitmer, Double L Ranch, ridge, and Beverly Miller, Sylvia, representing neighbor­ Zenda. hood libraries; Joan Kneisler, Colwich, and Nadine McPherson - Lina C. Baldwin, RR 1, Conway. Woody, Douglass, community libraries; Neysa Eberhard, Reno — Gary L. Rolirer, RFD 3, Hutchinson. Newton, and Reva Weniger, Kingman, core libraries; Rice — Gary E. Gammon, RR 2, Box 49, Sterling. Duane Johnson, Hutchinson, and Dick Rademacher, Sedgwick—Helen L. Wulfmeyer, RR 2, Box 2-A, Wichita, resource centers; Rowena Olsen, Miller Library, Clearwater. McPherson College; and Louise Dial, Derby, school lib­ Stafford — Neva Jean Spare, RR 2, St. John. rarian. Sumner - Edith Verna Evans, RR 3, Wellington. According to Librarian Johnson, “this particularly intense examination of services is necessary because it appears that the tax which pays for SCKLS operations GOVERNOR’S LIBRARY TASK FORCE will not increase significantly in 1978 and 1 979. Infla­ HOLDS INITIAL MEETING tion in fixed costs will probably exceed increase in in­ come, so service may have to be reduced.” Librarian Duane Johnson, appointed by Gov. Robert Among budget items discussed at the November ex­ Bennett to the Governor’s Task Force on Libraries, ecutive committee meeting was the projected contract attended the first meeting of the gorup in Topeka last charge of $17,302 by the State Film Library for 1978, month. a raise of $ 1,360 over the current year. Committee mem­ Work will begin with a survey of the needs and re­ bers discussed the possibility of letting individual librar­ sources of the various types of libraries—school, public, ies pick up costs for film use, charging patron users regent, private college, special and community college. of film part of the fee, or of prorating some system Attention will be given to duplication of etfort in li­ money to member libraries for film use. brary services and future plans. Other system services also will be scrutinized and Recommendations coming out of the meetings may evaluated. be incorporated into a state Governor’s Conference on Libraries, which will precede the White House Confer­ CONSULTANTS MEET, SHARE IDEAS ence in Washington, D. C., in September, 1979. In ac­ cordance with the strict guidelines set down nationally Consultants of the state’s seven library systems for state governors’ conferences, only one-third of the attended a meeting with Marty Tucker of the State participants will be members of the library community, Library in Salina in November to share ideas, concerns while the remaining two-thirds will be from the public. and projects. The next meeting will be Jan. 16 in Hutch­ The Kansas Library Association and other state li­ inson. SCKLS is represented by Mildred Boyersmith and brary organizations are expected to assist with financial Junivee Black. and in-kind support. Tire Other Child Grows Up, Richard S. Lewis, Times Books, 1977, 256 pages, $12.95. In this follow-up of The Other Child, Lewis traces the adult life of a group of children with learning disabilities and the results of their special training. Several heart­ warming studies show them functioning well in jobs on their own. Lewis also ou tlines medical discoveries in the field of learning disabilities and the progress in teaching affected children.

Betrayed by F, Scott Fitzgerald, Ron Carlson, Norton, The Cooperating Family, Eleanor Berman, Prentice- 1977, 2l9 pages, $7.95. Hall, 1977, 166 pages, $6.95. A young graduate student tries to live his life with the A divorced mother of four found an unexpected intensity of F. Scott Fitzgerald and gets far afield. His source of household help, right in her own home. She adventures and observations are told in a flat youthful held a family council, explained her need to take a vernacular. full-time job and the changes this would bring in the For a time he is in prison, where nobody pays any domestic routine. Her children’s quick response showed attention to him, “just like on the outside.” He finally they preferred to take on useful chores over their some­ recognizes that life “is the mile when we’ve been run­ times meaningless ex tra-curricular activities and lessons. ning the hundred-yard dash” and a new stride is required. The new routine allowed the mother to shed her Queen Bee role in which all her rewards came from serving other Daniel Martin, John Fowles, Little, Brown, 1977, people’s needs. 629 pages. $12.95. Although the beginning was messy and sometimes dis­ Compelling is probably the word for this new John astrous, the two boys and a girl learned to take pride in Fowles novel. The author creates a complete life for an doing jobs assigned to them, to experiment with recipes English playwright by weaving incidents of the past with and understand the handling of money. Even with the the continuing story and by shifting from first person to extra participation in operating the home they still had a narrator. time for activities they cared about and visits with friends. Daniel Martin is called to the bedside of a dying friend and meets again his former wife and her sister, wife of a The Marriage Premise, Nina O’Neill, Evans, 1977, friend. Martin and the widow had a brief affair before 222 pages, $8.95. either married, but have formed many ties and alliances The female half of the couple which wrote Open since. Richness and depth are added by the Oxford aca­ Marriage relates her experience with marriage in her fam­ demic background, Catholic religion, Marxist philosophy, ily and examines the benefits of the traditional marriage. stage and movie settings. She admits the end of her son’s six-year marriage shook her. It led to remembering her own marriage of 33 years Unless You Die Young, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Norton, and her parents’ golden anniversary marriage. 1977, 223 pages, $8.95. While “marriage may not be the answer for everyone, A family story told from the viewpoint of a widow or for a whole lifetime,” she concludes it gives order to past 70. She takes a small house at the beach where her life and a sense of place where we feel at home. married children and their families also spend the summer. Her problem is to be helpful, but not go too far. Carnival, Isak Dinesen, University of Chicago Press, 1977, 338 pages, $10. The increasing number of fans of Baroness Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, will be pleased to see this collection of 11 short stories never published before in a book in English. They range from her early writing to just before her death in 1962. Danish by birth, she wrote in English in later life. Waza Wins at Windy Gujch, Eleanor Coerr, illus. by Janet McCaffery, Putnam, 1977, 48 pages, $4.99. (Gr. 2-3) Humorous anecdotes about Waza, one of the camels brought to Texas during the 1850’s to be used as pack animals on the trail to California. When Dirtyshirt Dan, the chief mule driver, tries to disgrace Waza because he is afraid the camels will replace his mules, his ploys backfire and Dirtyshirt Dan gets into trouble himself.

The Sidewalk Racer and Other Poems of Sports and Motion, Lillian Morrison, Lothrop, 1977, 62 pages, $5.95 PLB $5.21. (Gr. 5-7) An anthology of 38 lyrical poems that express beauti­ fully how it feels to be an athlete in action as well as a The Wily Witch and All the Other Fairy Tales and Fables, spectator. Action-filled photographs of boys and girls Godfried Bomans, Stemmer House, 1977, 205 pages, enchance the pages of poetry. $7.95. (Gr. 4-7) A brilliant translation of the collected stories of a J modern Dutch author Demons, dragons, witches, kings and princesses parade through these tales which have a diversity that ranges from the playful to the macabre- J P i l W r ^ and the sublime to the absurd. WX/-jM NjW I& A W

Leave Well Enough Alone, Rosemary Wells, Dial, 1977, 218 pages, $7295. (GrAA9) A suspenseful novel about Dorothy Coughlin, a sheltered SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL A GOLD MINE 14-year-old policeman’s daughter, who takes a summer job as a mother’s helper on a luxurious Pennsylvania estate. The American School Board Journal, Values she has learned in a Catholic school don’t seem to monthly magazine of the National School apply in this setting of limitless wealth. Dorothy’s snoop­ Boards Association contains much practi­ ing turns up knowledge which puts her in a position of cal information about board operations, power. She discovers that the line between right and meetings, public relations, current events, wrong is often very fine and in the end she decides to which relate to education and libraries leave well enough alone. and educational service to children and community. Noah’s Ark, Bible, illus. by Peter Spier, Doubleday, What pertains to school boards and ed­ 1977740~pages, $6.95. (Gr. K-3) ucation frequently pertains also to library Peter Spier has translated a 17th-century Dutch poem boards and libraries. and then followed the poem with beautifully illustrated Check it out. You'll be surprised how pages that are textless. The pictures, precise and detailed, much useful information the journal con­ filled with humor and action, make this age-old story of tains. the Great Flood a delight to behold. There are school board members in your community who probably have Ordinary Jack, Helen Cresswell, Macmillan, 1977, 192 back issues gathering dust in a pile at pages, $6.95. (Gr. 5-7) home and who would be willing to con­ Jack, a seemingly talentless 11-year-old, is out of place tribute them to the library. Current in a family where all others excel at just about everything. issues could be acquired the same way. There is one hilarious development after another when his uncle maps out a campaign whereby Jack will become the family prophet. The first book of a trilogy. CATALOG MICROFILM READERS BOOKS TO BE DISTRIBUTED ARRIVE IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Each SCKLS library will receive the book, Jerry About 25 SCKLS libraries will find COM microfilm Smith’s Collections from the American Past, from the readers for the computerized catalog under their Christ­ Hallmark Co. They will be distributed as they are pro­ mas trees. cessed. Well, not quite. But the readers have arrived in Hutch­ inson and will be delivered during December to sub­ ASSISTANT AT ARLINGTON scribers of this service by Librarian Duane Johnson. The first catalog film to be used is not a complete one. Arlington-Mrs. Elsie Starks, Green Thumb worker, At the SCKLS Processing Center, only one of eight is a new assistant to Librarian Marguerite Fountain at extra workers remains on the job of entering the union the Arlington Library. This enables the library to be catalog into the computer. During the past year of inten­ open on Friday afternoons and to bring the total sive work, employes have gone through the catalog from weekly hours of operation to 20. “A” to “Z” and now are adding only recently acquired items. MORE BOOKMARK MYTHOLOGY A new computer terminal of OCLC (Ohio College Library Center) has been installed at the Processing Cen­ Mulvane—The list of unusual, ridiculous, titillating ter and personnel are being trained in its use. Purchased or innovative bookmarks found by librarians in re­ with a grant from the State Library, it will be used in turned books continues with these entries from the cataloging and reference work. Mulvane Library: A plastic bag of honey, fortunately unopened. MULVANE LIBRARY SWAPS BUILDINGS A prescription for a birth control device, returned in a plain envelope. Mulvane—The Mulvane Li bra 17 is engaged in what is A retainer for the lower teeth, similar to a dental basically a building trade, but it is getting the advantages plate, unclaimed. of new heating, air conditioning and a better shaped area. NEW PROGRAMS AT LYONS The present library space, a long, narrow room, was needed by the Mulvane State Bank for expansion, so Lyons—A third pre-school story hour has been added the bank agreed to remodel the old theater building on to the Lyons Library weekly schedule. There are now Main Street for the library. two sessions on Wednesdays and one on Thursdays. Librarian Nina Wessels says the library is packed up Another new feature is remaining open during the and ready to move. “We’ll be able to see the whole area noon hour. Librarian Joan Butts reports quite a crowd from the desk, and hear each other,” she said. came the first open noon hour and many still return, some with a brown bag lunch. CLEARWATER AUCTION HELPS LIBRARY LIBRARY DATEBOOK Clearwater — The Clearwater Library received a wel­ come boost from the proceeds of an auction sponsored Dec. 12 — SCKLS executive committee meeting, Hutch- by the Women’s Study Club of Clearwater. In addition, inson Library, 2 p.m. a garage sale and lunch counter drew crowds. The com­ Jan. 9 — SCKLS workshop on antiquarian books, munity donated many interesting items for the sale, said 9:30 a.m.; semi-annual trustees’ meeting, Librarian Shirley Huddleston. 2 p.m., Holiday Inn Holidome. Jan. 22-27 — American Library Association midwinter NEW LIBRARIAN ’ conference, Chicago. Feb. 28 — SCKLS spring book fair, Holiday Inn Holi- Sedgwick—Roberta Wadsworth succeeds Sara Dillinger come, 9:30 a.m. as librarian here. Mrs. Wadsworth received bachelor’s and April 2-8 — National Library Week. master’s degrees from Ft. Hays State University and April 23-25 — Kansas Library Association annual con­ worked in a library in Germany, while her husband, Tim, ference, Wichita. was stationed there. June 25-July 1 — ALA annual conference, Chicago. NEW POSITIONS AT EL DORADO John Dean (CBS); First, You Cry. Betty Rollin (CBS); Friendly Fire, C.D. Bryan (ABC); Granpa and Frank, El Dorado—Dorothy Stagner has been appointed head Janet Majerus (CBS); The Pirate, Harold Robbins (CBS); of circulation at the Bradford Memorial Library here. Stranger in the Mirror, Sidney Sheldon (CBS); The Wall, Dorothy, originally from Hutchinson, was employed John Hersey (CBS). by the Salina Library before joining the staff at Brad­ September, 1978—Duchess of Duke Street, Mollie ford Memorial last January. She and her husband, Hardwick (PBS). Rev. Giles E. Stagner, pastor of the Benton-Towanda Fall, 1978—Blood and Money, Thomas Thompson United Methodist Parish, have five children. (CBS); The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (PBS). Debbra Powell has joined the Bradford circulation Winter, 1978-Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (PBS); staff as a par t-time assistant. She also will continue Aspen, Burt Hirschfeld (NBC); Awakening Land, assisting Children’s Librarian Gaye Isom in planning Conrad Richter (NBC); What Really Happened to the and conducting weekly story hours for pre-schoolers. Class of ’65,” M. Medved and D. Walleschinsky; Loose Debbra, her husband Brad, and their two children moved Change, Sara Davidson (NBC); My Search for Roots, from El Paso, Texas. Alex Haley (ABC); Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (PBS); Wheels, Arthur Hailey (NBC). BOOKS TO BE ON THE TUBE

It’s beginning to look as if TV Guide has become an essential selection tool this season for librarians who are concerned with public demand, says the Wilson Library Bulletin. The television schedule includes: 1977/78-Adolf Hitler, John Toland (CBS); Aristotle Onassis, Nicholas Fraser (CBS); Blind Ambition,

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