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TWO OF THE WINNERS in the Halloween costume contest
at the Mason Youth Services party were, left to right, Cindy
Baxter, third place best costume, and Becky Tullar, second
place best costume.
A Timberland Regional
l£orary is a place where one can
find out where to write to Donny
Osmond or how to milk a goat.
It's also a place with access to
more than a million books as part
of the Timberland Regional
Library system.
Since voters approved the
system in 1968, it has grown to
include 25 libraries and five
bookmobiles with services that
range from up-to-date political
information to story.telling
sessions for children.
Timberland's system includes
five counties and covers 7,000
square miles. Since a lot of that
area is rural, five bookmobiles
serve as libraries-on-wheels to give
service to people in areas that are
not near a library. The vehicles
are stocked with a selection of
fiction and non-fiction books,
records for children and adults,
posters and magazines. Request
slips are also on board and
patrons of the mobile libraries can
have books and other materials
mailed to them at no charge. In
addition, rural area Timberland
patrons can call 1-800-562-6022
toll-free and ask questions, order
books, ask for shut-in service or
receive other library materials
through the mail.
Shut-ins can contact any
Timberland library, or call the
toll-free number and receive a
steady supply of reading material.
Like all Timberland users they
can request material on a
particular subject, and
Timberland will research the
request and send the patron
books and magazines.
Outreach, another Timberland
program, is aimed at serving
nursing homes, hospitals,
detention centers, special
education classes and a number of
other places that might not have
other library service.
"Outreach means just what it
says," Louise Morrison,
Timberland director, said. "If
people are unable to use
conventional library services, it
doesn't mean that those services
are less necessary. It just means
that we have found different ways
of serving special needs."
Stock market buffs are among
the most frequent users of
another Timberland servlce.The
system includes Standard and
Poor, a set of continually updated
AMONG THE WINNERS in the Mason Youth Services
Halloween costume contest were, left to right, Erin Byrd,
third place funniest costume; Germ Pink, MYC counselor;
Richard Rau, first place best costume and a girl dressed in a
pioneer costume.
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books about the business world.
The service enables patrons to
find out who heads the nation's
companies, the names of their
subsidiaries, and other business
information.
In Who's Who, the mailing
addresses of celebrated people in
the political, business, literary,
and show business fields are
available. With Who's Who, a
patron can write an irate letter to
a congressman or a love letter to a
movie star.
Children's librarians
throughout Timberland operate
on the premise that little "people
should receive the same attention
and service as adults. Children can
check out or request books,
records, magazines.., and even
toys in some of the libraries.
Special programs for children at
Timberland libraries have
included such things as magic
shows, folk singing, a
horseshoeing demonstration,
movies, and on-going story-telling
sessions. Every summer,
Timberland sponsors a summer
reading club and children can earn
awards for completing ten books.
"Timberland provides a
variety of necessary services for
people of all ages," Mrs. Morrison
said. "! don't think that children
should be treated like second-class
citizens. After all, they'll grow up
to be taxpayers some day, and it's
important that they know what
libraries are all about."
Programs for adults have
ranged from demonstrations on
how to make corn husk dolls to a
motorcycle show. In addition,
Timberland has provided speakers
for schools and clubs throughout
its 7,000 mile area.
Individual libraries have
special services which anyone in
the Timberland area can use.
Among them are a pattern
exchange program in Tenino, a
large selection of mail order
catalogs in Montesano, engravers
to protect personal belongings in
Centralia, and community
resource directories in several
facilities.
For people with poor
eyesight, Timberland libraries are
stocked with large print books,
including many of the most
popular works of fiction. As with
all Timberland material, no
library card is required to check
these out.
One of the least thought
about services Timberland
libraries provide is a place to
relax.., a place to sit quietly and
read or study. Some of the
libraries even have patrons who
come in regularly for a short
ShOO ze.
"Lots of people think that
libraries are dull dusty places full
of dull uninteresting people - like
little old ladies in tennie-runners
with their hair done up in a prissy
little knot," Mrs. Morrison said.
"Most library staff members are
pretty average people - but far
from dull. Besides, we aren't
running a service exclusively for
eggheads. We design our services
with help from non-library type
people who know what they
want, and aren't reluctant to say
SO."
Something fishy
Some circumstantial evidence is
very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk.
Henry Thoreau
1"he most respected See it now at:
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Dorothy Ridout's sixth grade class, Bordeaux School
Throu h the school savings program th
students are
learning systematic savings. This early training will
blish life-long habits of responsible money management.
We congratulate
this school year.
Mrs. Ridout's class, the first 100% class of
THURSTON COUNTY FEDERAL
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OLYMPIA • SHELTON • LACEY • TUMWATER