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Show The Scoop on All Out Raach Sarvicas home delivery to with guest speakers, puppet shows, book talks and the Reading Is Fundamental program are sevices designed to function outside of the library are portable building. units stocked with paperbacks and placed in rest homes or community centers. Donated paperbacks and volunteers are utilized to provide this service. The Reading Is Fundamental Mini-librarie- s, shut-in- s, programs Mini-librari- es program distributes new paperbacks to children in selected elementarv schools over a period of three years. Humanities The program encourages young people to form recreational reading habits and a positive attitude towards Several grants from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities have reading. made possible an ongoing series of h Please contact the programs. These programs bring outLibrarian or Volunteer Coordinator if standing humanists of Utah into the you are interested in donating books, Community to stimulate discussions or becoming a on the importance of understanding starting a the modern world and its problems. library volunteer. Out-reac- mini-librar- y, Iii the summer and fall of 1978, the The Informed library presented seven series of a programs Youth, designed to introduce young people to the humanities by focusing on issues of concern to them: peer pressure, censorship, careers, pollution, prejudice, ethics, and future shock. How Books influence our Lives for Good and Dl was presented in the fall of 1978. At each session, a representative. of one of five disciplines: history, anthropology, psychology, political science, and literature, presented a summary of his fields Ongoing Programs The Weber County Library provides a number of ongoing programs for adults and children alike. Weekly story programs for school and preschool aged children include music, poetry, puppetry, and creative dramatics at all three libraries. Young patrons also enjoy summer programs which provide reading incentive through bookmarks, pictures, and certificates awarded for reading achievement. Annual sales of discarded and donated books, phonograph records, and magazines, take place at the Main Library and its branches. Childrens and Young Adult departments provide monthly book discussion groups with new titles of interest provided for check out and review to parents, teachers, and librarians in Weber County. All libraries in the system have available guides to library materials on specific subjects of current popular interest called pathfinders. Field trips to the libraries are encouraged. Teachers, scout leaders, groups, and others may call to make arrangements to visit. pre-scho- ol classic writings. The discussions then centered around the artistic merit and social value of these works. In January, 1979, the library began a five part series, Religions of the of World, which was an an earlier lecture on religion. With each of five major world religions represented, humanists and leaders of the faiths explain the deity, customs and rites, life after death, free choice, and the origins of their respective out-grow- th religions. With the continuing efforts of the library staff and the financial support of the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, future programs promise to be successful. |