Today is Laugh and Grow Rich Day, in recognition of laughter's power to add to the bottom line because people who laugh are more effective and tend to remember things better.

Saturday is Pay-A-Compliment Day, a day to practice this simple act of kindness by paying a compliment to co-workers, family members, and even strangers on the street. And Sunday is Clean Out Your Computer Day, a day dedicated to purging and organizing computer files that are devouring disk space, slowing systems, and confounding users!

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. Groundhogs and Shadows storytime includes a shadow mural with sun. Wednesday's 3:30 p.m. and Saturday morning's 10:00 special Arthur storytimes include making Arthur glasses and a poster to color.

BOOK TALK

Librarian Rosie Klopfer provides this week's book information. Depression is an illness, just as a cold is. Most people will get over it in a few days. Sometimes it lasts longer, and sometimes people need medical and professional help to snap out of it.

The library has these and other resources to help you and your loved ones cope with and understand this illness. Book titles include "What To Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed," by Mitch Golant Ph.D. and Susan K. Golant; "The Talking Cure," by Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.; St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster," by Hyla; "5-HTP: The Natural Way to Overcome Depression, Obesity, and Insomnia," by Michael Murray; "Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Mediation Can't Give You," by Richard O'Connor; and "When Words Are Not Enough," by Valerine Davis Raskin.

You might also want to check out these videos: "Fragile Beginnings," by Lifecycle Production, and "Teenage Depression and Suicide," by Schlessinger Video Productions.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Library of Congress has a Website called American Memories, with over a million images from America's past. You can visit the site, which includes a collection of baseball cards distributed between 1887 and 1914, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem.

Another great site you might want to check out is the Book TV Website, where you'll find an extension of C-SPAN 2's "Book TV." You can get additional information on Book TV titles, watch or listen to programs you missed, browse bestseller lists from around the country, get background information on authors and publishers, and chat with authors and other readers.

By industry estimates, PC users throw away some four million discs per day - more than one billion per year - which end up in landfills (where they take more than 450 years to degrade) or in incinerators (where they're raw material for acid rain). The GreenDisk, Inc. recycling program wants you to know that discs are recyclable. Founded on Earth Day in 1993, the GreenDisk program had recycled nearly 20 million pounds of software materials and well over 20 million diskettes by its second anniversary. You can phone them at 1-800-305-DISK or visit the Website at www.greendisk.com.