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“A very successful work
session” was the verdict of the
librarians of the Pettigrew
Regional Li bran/ who met for
their quarterly S taff Meeting at
the Washington County Library
last week. For a change, we did
not have any g;uests this time
but made use of our own
resources to expand our
capabilities foir service to the
public. Following the regular'
reports of the three county'
librarians (Mrs. Esther
Davenport of Tyrrell Count)'
Public Library in Columbia,
Mrs. Louise Darby of Shepard -
Pruden Memorial Library im
Edenton, and Kim Varin of
Washington County Library in
Plymouth) there was general
discussion of plans for special
summer programs.
The morning work session
was devoted to an intensive drill
on the use of one of our latest
reference tools —a new edition
of a dictionary. It happens to be
a pet of mine since I readily
admit that I am a nut about
words Crossword puzzles,
Scrabble and other word games
fascinate me. There have been
several new dictionaries
published in the last ten years,
most of them large,
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Dr. Elizobeth Luton Barnes has been
chosen receintly by Bishop J. W. Wac
tor of the A Ibemorle Conference, Sev
enth Episcoixal District, as a Represen
tative of the N. C. Council of Churches.
She ottencfled the N. C. Council of
Churches / mneeting (two days) in High
Point, N. C.
Sunday, May 27, Dr. Barries has
been osked at the Disciple Church in
Norfolk, '/a., to give a Homecoming
message.
The fir-st Sunday in June she will
give the Woman's Day message at
Bethel A. M. E. Zion Church, Elizabeth
City, N.
The first Sunday in July, another
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comprehensive works, but the
one we studied is a compact
edition highly recommended for
students and as a convenient
home reference aid:
“Webster’s New Collegiate
Dictionary”, the Bth edition.
Besides the meanings for
words, including such new ones
as machismo, waterbed,
strung-out and uptight, this i
dictionary can be used for mdny
other kinds of information.
Some of the "extras” we ]
explored were: Division of
words into syllables for printing
and pronunciation (not
necessarily always the same!)
understanding abbreviations,
meaning of foreign phrases and
of symbols, information about
colleges and universities, short
biographies of notable people
and a pronouncing gazeteer
which includes data on rivers,
lakes and mountains as well as
cities and nations. If you have
never spent any time exploring
a dictionary, I heartily
recommend that you try it
the staff did and they enjoyed it
immensely.
After the buffet lunch
provided by the Washington
County librarians, the staff
con vened in the auditorium
where the subject was audio- 1
visual materials. Mrs. Louise I
Darby shared with us some of
the highlights of the conference
on popular music which she
attended in Smithfield recently.
She u rged that a larger share of
our materials budget be
devoted to recordings since they
are proving increasingly
popular in the Pettigrew
Region.
At the request of Mrs.
Marilyn Rose, the Audio-Visual
Consultant, for the State
Library, I enlisted the aid of the
staff members in previewing a
film that has recently been
added to the collection. The title
was simply “Tumbleweed, A
Saga” and if you ask the
members of the staff what it
was about, you will get iriany
different answers since it
seemed to mean something
different to each of us, though
almost everyone enjoyed it.
SCREECHES
A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE
Librarians, like preacher’s
kids, are locked into an
unpleasant stereotype which is
used much too often by writers
of fiction. Whenever I stumble
across a new description of an
unpleasant librarian, I cringe
anew and vow that nobody on
my staff will behave that way. A
case in point was the sequence
in a new book (which I enojyed
otherwise) by Fred Chappell
called “The Gaudy Place”. Just
to make sure nobody missed it, I
had Kim Varin read it to the
staff. But then, to counteract
the effect, I had found some
complimentary words on
librarians in another new book
which I also shared with the
staff.
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Thursday, May 34,1973