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Show A New Library Committee velop, there will be a greater need for a library in each meeting house. A director for the library in the meeting house will be appointed, with associate directors to represent each ward or branch meeting in the same building. Library assistants will be called and assigned to priesthood and auxiliaries as needed, Elder Olson said. Better Service Is Goal 6-M- Group an THE Of As new manuals are prepared, the teaching aids will be listed for each lesson. The library personnel will thus know the needs for each lesson. From this information and trom the resources of the library, a teacher packet will be prepared for the teacher in time for preparation and presentation. First Presidency has announced formation of ? Church Library Coordinating Committee, with the responsibility of correlating all library activities and procedures of the Church. Elder Earl E. Olson, assistant Church historian, is chairman of the new committee. He will represent the libraries of the Church in meeting with the Correlation Executive Committee and serves as the repof the Historians Office resentative The expanded responsibilities of the committee will support the Church historian and general Church recorder as he carries forward the assignment originally given to John Whitmer in 1831 by Joseph Smith. He was charged to preach, expound, write, copy, select and obtain all things which shall be for the good of the Church, and for the rising generations that shall grow up on the land of Zion. Library-Archive- Elder Theodore M.. Burton, Assistant to the Twelve, will represent the Genealogical Society Library and its branches, on the committee. Other members are Russell L. Davis, representing the libraries in the ward and branch meeting houses; Donald K. Nelson, representing Brigham Young University Library; Dr. Keith R. Oakes, Church School Systems libraries; and Dr. S. Lyman Tyler, special consultant to the committee. It is our aim to improve the libraries ef the Church, to make material more readily available and to offer improved services, Elder Olson said. (Doc. & Cov. 69:8) The directors of libraries in meeting houses will become the key people in providing materials and aids to improve the quality of lesson presentation in all the organizations in the wards and branches. We communication. expect to have a two-wa- y We want to develop libraries that will fit Elder the needs of all organizations, Olson explained. The activities of the libraries in meeting houses will be one of the major responsibilities of the committee. The activities of the former Church Library and Instructional Materials Committee will be absorbed by the new committee. As the curriculum programs of the priesthood and auxiliary organizations de With the approval of the Church historian, the committee will function under the direction of the Correlation Executive Committee and the Council of the Twelve. The expanded activities of the new committee wUl require additional personnel. Task committees will be called for the development of specific programs. Additional instructions for stake and ward library directors will be sent through the stake presidents and bishops. A New Course -- Doorway To ?k N ightmare ions of modern civilization. Hunger and nd leisure can be a more severe test of (Ed. note: Jack Anderson, Washington lournalist and an active member of the Church, is author of this week's guest column, "If I were Teenager." Mr. to the Southern who served a mission Anderson, of a Washington political column States, is and Washington editor tor Parade magazine. character. Whether it should be my destiny to explore the frontiers of space or research or to spend my life at more mundane endeavors I would seek mountains to climb, not easy slopes to coast down. I would pray for the wisdom of Brigham Young, who settled in a harsh desert, rather than push on to more lush and pleasant climes. For it is the struggle that gives strength. By JACK ANDERSON Over in a corner, a pair of bongo drums throbbed and sobbed. In the center of the dimly lit room, hazy with smoke, two couples danced as if in a daze. Other boys and girls in beatnik garb, eyes glazed, sprawled on the floor, some in close embrace. One girl stood on her head, unkempt hair screening her face, slim legs braced against the wall. Nobody seemed to think her behavior the least unusuaL This scene, as described by an inform- ant, is repeated almost every night in stu- dent apartments in Washingtons historic Georgetown section. The girl doing the headstand was the hostess, a daughter of prominent parents listed in the social register. Attending private school by day, she went hippy at night. For refreshments, she nerved acid (LSD) and pot (marijuana). The scene is repeated, too, on hundreds of campuses across the country. If by some miraculous reverse metabolism I could be transformed back into a teenager, I would stay out of that apartment. It is the doorway to a nightmare world, a subterranean world of half light, filled with grotesque aberrations. I would mt avoid the campus or the classroom, but ..if 4 CHURCH WEEK World I would keep In the sunlight of wholesome living. There is a guide to wholesome living the gospel standards which have helped people in the past to forge useful lives. I would try to live by these standards, not so much for heavens sake as for my own sake. I would not let the spirit of restlessness and rebellion within me take control of my life, but I would seek to channel these energies into productive activity. I would take pride in the achievements of my pioneer forefathers, but T would not turn my eyes backward from my own frontier. Sometimes I think it would be easier to fight Indians than to face the Lustra- - ENDING JANUARY 11, 1969 Then if it happened that I should attain some modicum of success, I would pray that I never lose my sense of perspective to be worthy of it. Only genuine achievement brings that inner exhilaration of true happiness. There may be times when I will approach the doorway, lured by the tantalizing sights and sounds on the other side. I may be tempted to sample the imagined delights, to drift in an aura of blissful unreality, to conform to the quaint folkways of those who believe themselves to be nonconformists, to bewail the world I am inheriting rather than do something to improve it. But there are no real answers behind the door. They can only be found in the teacliings of Jesus Christ. Designed For Teachers A new e teacher training course being introduced at Sunday School regional conferences this year has won high praise in its pilot stages. Designed to give the Church belter teachers with better methods, the program was first introduced to two stakes in 1967. It was revised and offered to five stakes in 1968. The pilot project turned out so well that there is a waiting list of 38 people in one stake and the stake presidency and bishopric in another are talcing it, explained Dr. Ruel Allred, chairman of the Teacher Training Committee. The old course has done wonderful things with our teachers but this program incorporates the most important education developments of the last few years, he continued. The new course is divided into 11 weekly classes of 14 hours duration, compared to the present course of 26 classes of duration. In reality, we are spending about the same number of hours, but we have condensed the lessons and increased the class length to include practice teaching, said Dr. Allred. He said the course material combines teaching methods, procedures and ilieory with practical experience. The teachers will learn about the nature of teaching, lesson objectives, planning lessons, classroom control and different methods of instruction, be said. Continued on rage II pre-servi- |