European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday april 9, 1937 the stars and strikes Page 3library week librarian in . Plans quiet Celebration . Bureau there just won t be any Hoot in and Hollerin i Frances turn s Library this National Library week the Jinks and clangs or a copy Mach inc. The slams Ofa card Catalon drawer and maybe a rather violent my of a Page of the new York times is about As raucous Asit s going to gel this week. Lum head librarian at Chicksands smallish Library in t Bunting wild enthusiasm about the week either. A topical crossword Puzzle contest for adults and a Spe Cial Story time for preschoolers this week arc All that is planned "1 Don t go for hyping it All into one week she said."1 Don t think there should be one week of the year in which we concentrate Alt our efforts and the rest of the year be sort of blah. It s like having National Pickle week or National laugh scr week or something therein May lie the real tribute to the Library no Celebration makes it any More important Ihan it is the rest of the year. Libraries like the one at Chicksands average about200 customers a Day. Lum says about half of those Are regular customers the others Are a combination of Ancoin a while bibliophiles. The rest arc browsers and newcomers Lum a librarian for some 35 years at military baseball Over the world has a simple solution have s2 weeks of National Library week. I believe it s a year round thing she said. Military libraries arc As Lum describes them some what different from City or civilian libraries. They Are More like smaller Branch libraries but they emulate the big daddy of them ail the Library of Congress in Washington. With some 14,000 a ticks Lum s collection is Pun compared with the 20 million shelved in the District of Columbia. And the half do in workers at Chicksands Don t have nearly the amount of work that the 5,000 or More at the big Library Aren t the Only reason people use libraries. The base Library at Raf Mildenhall is noted for i particularly Large record collection some 6,000 discs. Most other base libraries including Lum a commonly offer computers typewriters copy machines vide Ocas so tics and even the phone books Tor most of the big cities in the United states. And More there s a Good Chance senior airman Curt Ander son will be in the Library this week. Anderson a crypt worker at Chicksands spends hours on end wit books but his Lime lately is spent mostly on the com Puter in the Chicksands Library. He s been Busy build ing a Star trek game. I have 29 it ingots and 19 Romulas to kill Andi be got 40 years to do Anderson said with unexpected optimism in the face of such a daunting task. La cent each Library moves to recover missing books military libraries provide children with a world full of knowledge. By Dave . Bureau carry Knapp can Tell what assign ments the students at Raf Laken Halh. England Are working on like the time Lakenheath High school teacher gave students an assignment on insects we lost the t volume of the world Book encyclopedia the Lakenheath librarian said. Last year it was to for s not just reference books. Karate magazines fashion magazines anything to do with sex or Massage and records they All gel stolen and the losses add unto thousands of dollars Worth of Library goods each the 31 libraries and 130 Small branches in Safe fewer than 3,500 of the 700,000 books arc lost each year a Safe spokeswoman said army in Europe has 107 main and Branch libraries with More than 2million accountable items. Raymond a Machika said less than 5 percent of the Library system s items arc stolen or lost. This year Knapp the librarian at on of the largest . Air Force bases in England is trying to get some of the books Back. She set up an amnesty Box to encourage people to bring Back books that were checked out and never re turned or just stolen. A similar program at the san Diego Library where Knapp once worked brought Back about 600books. Knapp wants people to bring Bac books records magazines or anything they May have do Quirck from her shelves in a dubious or dishonest Way. And no questions s just a gimmick a Japp said. I m just trying to get some books whole thing could just backfire. I Don t but the problem is More serious than the cutout letters and Crayon drawings on the cardboard amnesty Box indicate. It snot so much the Money it s the extra time and paper work it lakes to replace the books she said it s a big pain 10 reorder these books she said. She said she loses about 10 percent of her Slock a of what leaves Knapp s 30,000 volume Library goes via students fro the High school across the Street who spend their lunch hours and after school time in the Library. But Knapp is careful not to blame the students. She s says All types of people use tricks such As putting an extra recording a single sleeve sticking a Book in a bag or just claiming they brought Chebook Back when they did t Knapp says the military allows her atom of avenues for getting books Back or gelling the Money for the missing ones but Only for the ones that have been checked out. They can be traced. The stolen ones rarely comeback. Although there Are no fines in military libraries two warning letters followed by a notice to commanders usually meet with Success when it comes to gelling books Back. If those methods fait the base libraries can gel Money out of the military member s arc books people Don t steal Knapp says. Philosophy books hardly leave the shelves without coming Back. Management and business books keep their places and the Best Selling novels Don t get said Loo often the stolen books arc expensive reference books or the cof fee table Type picture books with Price tags of 100 or they want it bad enough they re going to Lake it she said. Carter enjoyed War and peace 2 or 3 times Vancouver Wash up Jimmy Carter not Only finished Reading the huge novel War and peace As a youth but did so More than once the former president said in an answer to a National Library week Survey of celebrities. Librarian sue Fowells of Convington Junior High school said she sent out letter two months ago to dozens of celebrities asking them about their child Hood Reading habits. She said politicians actors and even make believe characters wrote answers that she put up in the school s front Hall display Case in this week s Obser Vance of National Library week. When was 12 years old my teacher miss Juli Coleman instructed me to read War and peace a Book i thought was about cowboys and indians car Ter wrote. When i checked the Book out at the Library. 1 found that it was a 1,400-Page Book written by russian novelist and of course not about cowboys and indians at All. I read it two or three limes throughout the years 1spent in Junior High Charles Schulz creator of the comic strip pea nuts named my last million by Emile Gauvreau an account of Early newspaper wars and the careers and cartoonists. "1 have always regretted that i never had the chance10 meet the author wrote Schult Jim Henson. Or Cairn of the . Milne s Winnie the i ooh and James Thurber s the thirteen among the up pics there was a difference of Opin Ion. Kermit the Frog showed his Bias for Green by listing How Green was my Valley and the greening of miss Piggy however said her favorite was s Charlotte s
