October 06, 1995 - Glebe Report

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South Branch Library news
BY PAMELA ROSOLEN
South Branch staff held a farewell luncheon for Branch Head Tim Mark on
September 15. Tim has taken leave from public library work for a year to
assume the position of Executive Director of CARL - Canadian Association
of Research Libraries. We wish him success and happiness in this
endeavor. In his absence, I am the acting Head Librarian. The staff joins
me in welcoming Judy Wood from the Main Library, who is the Acting
Assistant Head Librarian. Other staff changes have also occured. Gillian
Shields has taken leave from her position as Library Assistant to pursue
her studies at Carleton University. We welcome Marie Thivierge who is
filling Gillian's position at the circulation desk.
The following are the top ten requested items in the Ottawa Public
Library System:
The Rainmaker
John Grisham
From Potter's Field
Patricia Cornwell
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Mary Higgins Clark
The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
The Piano Man's Daughter
Timothy Findley
Men Are From Mars Women are From Venus John Gray
On The Take
Stevie Cameron
Simisola
Ruth Rendell
Ladder Of Years
Anne Tyler
Lightning
Danielle Steel
Upcoming programmes in the Children's Section include the following:
Oct. 21 2:00 pm Apple Pigs Mmmm...make a pig of yourself with a
delicious craft. Ages 4 to 7 (30 min.)
Oct. 25 4:15 pm Mysterious Mysteries Put together clues and
uncover secrets ... Ages 8 to 13 (45 min.)
Oct. 28 2:00pm Pumpkins! Pumpkins! A pre-Hallowe'en
surprise. Dress up or come as you are! Ages 3 to 6. Preregistration
(45 min.)
2 novembre 14h00 Heure de conte, histoires et films pour les 3 à 5
ans. Inscription. (45 min.)
2:00 pm Eensy Weensy World. Learn to make little
people from embroidery thread and twist ties. Ages 6 to 10.
Pre-registration. (45 min.)
Babes in the Library Music, rhymes and books for babies from birth to
18 months. Mondays at 9:30 am from November 6 to December 11 inclusive.
Pre-registration begins October 23.
Bébés à la biblio. Musique, comptines et livres pour les bébés de la
naissance à 18 mois, mardi 5. 9h40 du 7 novembre au 12 décembre.
Inscription dès le 24 octobre.
Time for Twos. Stories and films for 2-year-olds, Wednesdays at 9:30
a.m. from November 1 to December 6 inclusive. Pre-registration begins
October 18.
Storytime for 3 to 5-year-olds; Mondays at 10:30, and Wednesdays at
10:30am and 2:15pm.
Saturday Stories and Films. Ages 4 to 7. Saturdays at 10:30am.
Bank Street Book Club! Drop in after school for bookish activities.
Ages 12 to 14. Call for details.
Lunchtime readings at
the Ottawa Public Library
Nov. 4
The Ottawa Public Library's
popular lunchtime reading series is
back.
The weekly readings, co-sponsored
by Food for Thought Books,
will be held at 12:15 pm in the Library
auditorium at 120 Metcalfe
Street. Copies of featured books
will be available for sale at autographing
sessions following each
reading. Admission is free.
Also coming in October: Marci
MacDonald, Yankee Doodle Dandy:
Brian Mulroney & 1-lis America
Agenda (October 10); Ken Rockburn,
Medium Rare: Jamming with
Culture (October 12); the World
Wildlife Fund, Protecting Canada's
Endangered Spaces (October 19);
Brian Nolan, Airborne: The Heroic
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Story of the 1st Canadian Parachute
Ba talion in WWII (October 20); Ron
Atkey, The Chancellor's Foot
24); Bob Robertson and
Linda Cullen, Double Exposure
(October 25); and Patrick Reid,
Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
(October 26).
Cancer Centre Open
House on October 14
Come to the Grand Opening and
Open House of the new Ottawa
Regional Cancer Centre on Saturday
October 14 at Ottawa General
Hospital, 501 Smyth Road. From 10
am to noon there is a pancake
breakfast, followed by a tour to the
centre from noon to 3 pm. For
further information call 247-6883.
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Rockcliffe Park Public School will Although the emphasis is on chilhold
its 34th Annual Book Fair on dren's books, adult best sellers and
November 3rd, 4th and 5th. This specialty books are available.
year's theme will be technology. Canadian authors are on hand
Book Fair is the major fund- throughout the Fair for readings
raiser for the Home and School As- and book signings. There is also a
sociation of Rockcliffe Park Public good selection of used games, puz-
School. Proceeds from the event are zles and magazines.
used to upgrade school equipment Over 400 volunteers from several
and books and to supplement Board communities work at Book Fair
of Education funding. As well, throughout the year. Last year
Rockcliffe provides grants to Ot- more than 5,500 people came to the
tawa area schools so that they may Fair. In the truest sense,
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