Welcome to National Coin Week, National County Government Week, National Volunteer Week, Professional Secretaries Week, and National Library Week. If you haven't experienced your Roswell Public Library recently, plan a visit there this week. You'll be amazed at the wealth of information and services you can access there!
    Today is Kindergarten Day, observed on the anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Froebel (1782), who established the first kindergarten in 1837. German immigrants brought Froebel's ideas to the United States in the 1840s. The first kindergaren in a public school in the US was started in 1873, in St. Louis, Missouri.
    Friday is Hug A Prom Sponsor Day, and Saturday is National Good Telephone Day. On this one day a year, people are encouraged to answer the phone by the third ring, not to leave anyone on hold for a millennium, not to make rude remarks about the caller, not to slam the phone on any surface during or after a call, and to thank the person for calling at the conclusion of the call.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?
    Ladybugs take the spotlight in stories and a stick puppet play at Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes. Participants will also make a ladybug. At Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime, the Chaves County Soil and Water Conservation will present an educational program about natural resources of the Pecos Valley, and participants will take home a grow-it kit.

BOOK TALK
    This week's book information is provided by librarian Barbara Harris. Library patrons sometimes ask how to obtain a book that is no longer in print. The following suggestions are based on those in Marylaine Block's delightful Web site, "Book Bytes," with particular suggestions for our local area.
    If you just want to read the book but not own it, use the Roswell Public Library's interlibrary loan service. The library charges a minimal $2.50 for the service to cover their costs and has access to the holdings of libraries all over the world. A library that owns the book will loan it to our library for you to read, and then the library will send the book back to the lending library. Ask about this service at the reference desk.
    Check local used book stores and thrift stores, as well as the "remainders" tables at new book stores for out-of-print books. Yellow pages from other cities (available in print or on the Internet at the library) will list used book stores you might want to check when traveling.
    Special services that search for out-of-print books advertise in the classified sections of magazines such as "Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's," and "The Nation" (all available at the library), and several are available on the Internet. Ask the reference librarian for a copy of the handout that lists some of the sites and also for other materials about out-of-print searches that are kept at the reference desk.
    If the out-of-print book you are seeking is one you think others would enjoy and the library ought to have, ask the reference librarian to write a note to the librarian who orders that type of book for our library. Sometimes, older books are reprinted. We will keep your request on file and check from time to time to see if the book has become available again.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Here's another thought from "A Cowboy's Guide to Life." "When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson."

JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276

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