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6 PAGE 8A—GODERICHSIGNAL-STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER '27, 1975
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Bill Zambusi, (left) Midwestern's coordinator of programs
and services, and Peter Kienitz examine some of the the library free of charge.
regional library systems most recent audio-visual
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acquisitions. Film.s. are available in Huron County through .g)
Films on most subjects available
through Midwestern Library
Today you can learn'about . said Peter K ienitz, "or
mending faulty fuses and certainly in the foreseeable
plugs without turning • the future. But libraries need to
page of a handy -home keep pace v ith aLt aspects of
manual. gathering and providing .
You can enjoy the two information - and films_are
volumes of Tolstoy's "War one way of doing this,-.
and Peace" without ever Similarly, about 100,, fiction
reading -the book. andnon-fiction works ,have
And you can help your son been handled by Midwestern,
learn the basics. of hockey
without freezing to death by
rink side at four o'clock in the
morning.
As any modern public
library can tell you, .it's all. •
part of the information ex-
plosion - that today makes the
flick of a switch, thepush of a
button andthe plugging in cif
a jack as , much a part of
library work in the twentieth
century as stretching,
papyrus may have been
many years ago. the boo,13,..
At the headquarters of the Midwest,m-n , introduced
Midwestern Regional Library Talking Books into public
System, Kitchener, for libraries in early 'September
example, more than $20,00G is 1975, although K itchener
spent annually on 16 mm Public Library already •had
films that are previewed, its . own comprehensive
purchased and distributed to collection.
participating libraries in the "W'' began' with about 70
Region of Waterloo, and in titles,- said Peter K ienitz,
Perth, Huron and Wellington "but demand has been so
Counties. great that we'‘,.e placed a
Established in 1968 to ',standing order .with,CNIB to
coordinate public library .buy every new 'book they
services in this area, Mid- produce."
western selects the films In fact Midwestern is also
from catalogues provided by looking for other outlet to
the National Film Board, keep pace with 'demand.
International' Telefilm Some tapes. for example, are
Enterpri.ses, the British being purchased. ,from The
Broadcasting Corporation, Cassette Book Shop, Elmira.
Educational Media • Inc., and As. welq.. Mi'dwestern
many other national. and 'recently , purchased
international outlets. --eltiplicating equipment that
"We work • with a com- will be used to reproduce
mittee of staff from several copies ,of the more popular
libraries to select an average works on demand.
that have nothing to do with,
.print or binding. ,
They're the CNIB-15roduced
"Talking Books" 'small ,
audio cassettes for those with
visual or physical handicaps
who cannot read regular or,
large print books.
Professionally read. the
'Talking Books' can be
played on standard cassette;
recorders with a listening
time of four to nine hours
depending upon the length of
of three full-lngth: 16 mm
films or film series - a
month,- said Peter Kienitz,
MidAtern's coordinator of
audio-visual services.
Recent acquisitions, for
example, inciude the films:
"How to Say `No' to a Rapist
nd Survive: the "Howie
Meeker Hockey Series"
"BTth Control: Five
Effe.ctive Methods": and a
Widerangeofether
Several librares such as
Sitltford Public Llhary and
the Huron County Library
System offer popular courses
to patrons on the proper care
and handling of films,
equipment maintenance. film
cleaning and loading and
other techniques.
Emphatically, however,
Midwestern isn't interested in benefits from audio-visual
putting the4 book business out material.
of business. ' •Today there are over 200
"Books will always be the special Video tapes available
pivot of any library service," to patrons in Waterloo and
Talking Books are
• distributed to libraries, with
Midwestern ating as •Y a
clearing ••housefor repairs.
interlibrary transportation of
tapes and new acquisitions.
• Each Costing about $12,,
Talking Books are- available
free in most libraries an
provisi;n of a doctor's. cer-
tificate stating that a
borrower is unable to read
regular works for whatever
eason, borrowing time is
anywhere up to three months.
Midwestern has also pur -
cilasod 'several -playback
units for. the books which are
also distributed to libraries.
Reference work - or
Information Services as it is
commonly called in todays
library parlance - also
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Kitchener public libraries
that can be viewed on
playback units in study
carrels for reference work,
Purchased. by Midwestern
frorn the Ontario Educational
Communications Authority,
the video tapes cover many
subjects - travelogues, home
repair,' Indian legends and
Tolklore, and the education of
handicapped childrenas well
as several tapes in the
German language which are
of particular -relevance for
this area,:,
Designed to give patrons
another information
dimension ,to ,use, when
needed, the program' was
introduced on a trial basis
last summer and, if suc-
cessful, will expand to other
libraries.
Midwestern again is
responsible for watching out
for available material,
purchasing , it where
necesSary, monitoring tape
d m,a ge , cleaning 'and
replacement.
Video tape programming
doesn't stop, there, however.
Midwestern recently
acquired' the excellent
"Youth, in Trouble- series
from the Public Television
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Library, Washington, D.C.,
that it is making available to
libraries on a trial basis"to
show to local, patrons.
The series is alsobeing
promoted through schools,
churches; daycare centres,
hospitals; ' service
organizations and mental
-health clinics.
"Series like this carr be
very, valuable as part of a .
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