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Show Bookmobile Ready For July 7 state participation from two to one has resulted from budget cuts and indications the state can't continue providing the service. print or Spanish volume from the north branch, it can be ordered and available lo the patron when the bookmobile returns to his area or can be picked up by the patron at the south branch or headquarters library. IN ADDITION, a patron could call the library and ask that materials be located and available for his use when the bookmobile stops in his area, Mr. Giacoma says. And to top things off, no fines will be charged on books checked from the bookmobile, due primarily to irregularity that may occur with the bookmobile book-mobile in stops. THE STATE will continue operating the north county bookmobile. A reduction in By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON South Davis residents will have access ac-cess to a new bookmobile service, ser-vice, come Tuesday, although those behind it are hoping for a smooth transition so the change will hardly be noticed. THE AREA had orginally had bookmobile service through June 27 now passing from the state library board to the Davis County Library. What does that mean to the patron? It means library cards will be issued that can be used on the bookmobile as well as in the county libraries, explains Pete Giacoma, Farmington branch librarian, who is overseeing over-seeing the project. It also will mean a big change in the book layout. INSTEAD OF following the traditional Dewey Decimal system, the bookmobile's collection col-lection will be grouped in 15 categories including westerns, mysteries, science fiction and novels. A subject might be highlighted with a large assortment assort-ment of books during one month, such as World War II. he adds. Two staffers will travel with the bookmobile, as well, with the clerk augmented by a driver driv-er qualified in library science. Plans call for a driver with a master's in library science familiar with procedures and able to assist the patron. THAT COULD include locating books from the county library system collection about ab-out astronomy, for instance, and giving them to the interested in-terested patron on the next stop in that area. He will be a librarian first and a driver second. Mr. Giacoma says. The same types of books will be available, continuing the leisure reading format, he says, including the Mac-Naughton Mac-Naughton books collection of current, best-selling fiction rotated ro-tated constantly according to need. The paperback collection collec-tion will also be expanded. USE OF cards should help everybody, he says. "We think this will help speed up the ciuiilalion process ami also allow us to keep some control o er the collection. We think it will gie increased availahiliu no county lihrarh materials) ocn lo including filmsiiips ;ind records." Four stops were consolidated consoli-dated but otherwise the bookmobile book-mobile will be parked for about the same time at current stops for two to four hours. Stops will be made every two weeks and will be available Tuesday-Saturday, Tuesday-Saturday, as previously. AND WHILE official plans call for county library operation opera-tion only through the end of the year, Mr. Giacoma sees the service as having a large potential poten-tial tocontinue. "Ouranticipa-tion "Ouranticipa-tion is to continue indefinitely. We're planning permanent service. "It has high use and will be more so as interest in it grows. We look forward to expanding services in the future," he adds, noting that ideas being considered are a traveling photography exhibit and story teller. ABOl'T 5.000 volumes can be cmfortabl stocked in the bookmobile but that collection will constantly be modified from 15-20.000 state library books being provided and the regular county collection. If a patron wants a large |