ROTORUA PUBLIC LIBRARYROTORUA PUBLIC LIBRARY

LIBRARY HOURS Opening Hours Mon-Fri: 9.30am - 8.00pm Sat: 9.30am - 4.00pm 1127 Haupapa St Ph. 348 4177 Library@rdc.govt.nz www.rotorualibrary.govt.nz

BOOK SALE ! BOOK SALE ! BOOK SALE ! Every 1st & 3rd Saturday of the month

Kuirau Park old Tea Kiosk 9.00am - 1.00pm

Next sales: Saturdays, 3rd & 17th January Books & Magazines galore

Success

by Ralph Waldo Emmerson

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.

Flaxmill Bay Camp - reproduced with the kind permission of the artist, Rachel Olsen from Cooks Beach. (www.rachelolsen.co.nz) We have chosen Rachel’s beautiful work to illustrate this month’s theme of Kiwi camping. If you’re thinking about getting up close and personal with the great NZ outdoors, there’s plenty of information available here, whether it’s hot tips, recommended locations, travel blogs, maps or even some take-along recreational reading. Happy Camping or “Hi de Hi”.

From the Don Stafford RoomFrom the Don Stafford RoomFrom the Don Stafford RoomFrom the Don Stafford Room

The Teens Area is moving !The Teens Area is moving !The Teens Area is moving !The Teens Area is moving !

You may have noticed that during November and December the Don Stafford Room has been undergoing a transformation from its usual serene and studious atmosphere (if you come in before 3 p.m. that is). Staff have been rushing round with more trolleys than usual, the workshop manuals moved to a new location, map cabinets disappeared, space reduced steadily as hoardings were put up and unusually dressed staff have been all over the place (alias builders, plumbers, electricians, carpet layers, etc). Then when space started reappearing whole rows of shelves with their books have been vanishing. Fear not, the Don Stafford Room may be disappearing like the Cheshire Cat but it will reappear on the floor above sometime in January. The Don Stafford Room really will be a room for the reference books with a photocopier and study tables. Lots of interesting items that have been locked away in glass cases or stored in back rooms will be readily accessible. This will be a quiet area for serious study (the teens will have their own larger area back on the 1st Floor where they can get together after school). Books may not be taken out of the Don Stafford Room and food and drink will not be allowed in. The Maori, NZ History and Travel, Family History and Pacific lending books will be on the 2nd Floor too but outside the Don Stafford Room. Please be patient while we are settling in. A lot of books will need to have their locations on the catalogue changed which will take some months so please ask staff if you have trouble finding anything.

HURRY to WIN ! WIN ! WIN !

There’s still time (only just though) to come up with a new, original name for the Teens Area and you could win a cool Philips GoGear MP3 player Philips GoGear MP3 player for your suggestion. We’ve got one to give away to whoever thinks of the best name. You need to be a teenager to enter and you can either email your idea to Library@rdc.govt.nz, ring 348 4177 or bring your idea into the library. A big thanks to BBC who generously donated this prize.

Come along to the City Focus on

Friday 16th January at 7.00pm to watch some inspiring, talented teenagers perform

MACBETH MACBETH -- a modern day versiona modern day version.. Free entry.

And our big news of course is that we are relocating upstairs to a new space on the 1st floor with new furniture and some great new features. Come along

and check us out !

Library Office ClosedLibrary Office ClosedLibrary Office ClosedLibrary Office Closed The Library office, which used to be located at the Arawa Street end of the ground floor is now closed. All matters previously dealt with in the office can now be taken to the help desk. The closure is part of the library expansion project which will make library services more streamlined. You can still ring the library on Ph. 07 348 4177 for any enquiries.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. A.A. Milne

Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best-' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. - A.A. Milne The House at Pooh Corner

JJJJ anuary promises to mean lots of moving about in the

library with our long planned renovations coming to fruition.

Please be patient as we re-arrange 150,000 items of stock over

the next few weeks. Some items will already have been moved

to the 2nd floor and where and when possible, we will

endeavour to help you retrieve any particular item. If you do

need help - please ask any staff member. In next month’s

newsletter we’ll reveal a lot more about changes and additional

features we have in store for you.

Watch out for supermovers !Watch out for supermovers !Watch out for supermovers !Watch out for supermovers !

MOBILE LIBRARYMOBILE LIBRARY Bringing the Library Bringing the Library Bringing the Library Bringing the Library

to to to to YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR place !place !place !place !

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR MOBILE LIBRARY USERS The Mobile Library will be temporarily OFF ROAD for most of January due to regular maintenance work. We will advise when the service will resume as the information becomes available to us. We do apologise for this inconvenience but as you can appreciate, this is the most convenient time of the year to undertake any major repairs. For anyone who has requested/reserved an item to be delivered to a particular stop, we will endeavour to contact you to make alternative arrangements.

TEMPORARILY

TEMPORARILY

This month we conclude our series of articles about the Dewey Decimal System with an explanation of the 900s – a large and varied class within the scheme covering geography, history and “auxiliary disciplines”. Many libraries have adjusted this part of the scheme to fit their own readership – Rotorua Public Library is one of these.

Within the 900s, there is provision for the history for separate countries and areas and also for geography/travel of separate countries and areas. However, there are lots of books published which contain some history and some geography of let’s say France. History of France books would be classed at 944 and geography/travel at 914.4. People found it confusing to have some books about France at one number and some at another. So we adopted the use of the history number for all countries regardless of whether the subject was treat-ed as a travel book, a geography or a history.

Biographies which are covered by the numbers 920 – 928 are another type of book which can be treated differently between one library and another. The biography numbers have a mnemonic feature attached: the third number, for example the 5 from 925 for biography of people involved in the sciences, comes from the general number for sciences – that is 500. 927 (700) is the number for people in the arts, 928 (800) is the number for writers or people in literature. At this library, we mostly switched biographies to the number of the subject in which the biographee has been active. Therefore we class cricketers with 796.358, the general number for cricket. We do however keep most biographies together rather than shelving such books for instance with the rest of the cricket books. There are still some biographies with the 920 – 928 numbers, mostly books about people with no particular occupation (920) or the royal family (923).

In the children’s section the system has been scaled back further in the interests of simplicity. All biographies are classed at 92 with the first 3 letters of the biographee’s surname following. For example, a biography of Marie Curie will be classed at 92 CUR.

The number 929 is used for genealogy, names, insignia, the peerage, awards, and flags. Here are the ten divisions of the 900 class:

Three cheers for Pooh! (For who?) For Pooh—(Why, what did he do?) I thought you knew… Alan Alexander Milne originally was a playwright and didn’t venture into children’s stories until the 1920s after his son, Christopher Robin was born. Described as a complex man, A.A. Milne refused to be typecast. Apparently his publishers complained when the well-known humourist of Punch magazine wrote a detective story, then later presented them with a book of children’s verse -”When we were very young” which went on to become a best-seller. Interestingly the artist, Ernest Shepard, who brought to life the endearing characters of Milne’s stories was initially held in low regard by Milne who had seen Shepard’s earlier work but on seeing the first sketches provided, Milne was appeased and the two went on to create a world-wide celebrity out of Winnie the Pooh. The library not only holds A.A. Milne books (his stories as well as biographies on the man) but also The path through the trees 823.912 MIL (NF stack), written by Christopher (Robin) Milne about his own life as the son of the famous author, According to many, Christopher struggled with his close association to the world of Winnie the Pooh and his name haunted him for most of his life. His relationship with his parents soured (possibly partly due to the fact that he married his first cousin) to the point that he did not see his mother again after his father died (She died 15 years later).

A.A. Milne 1882 - 1956

BIRTHDAY: 18th January 1882

900 – Geography and history. 910 – Geography and travel. 920 – Biography, genealogy, insignia. 930 – History of the ancient world to circa 499 940 - General history of Europe.

950 – General history of Asia. 960 – General history of Africa. 970 – General history of North America. 980 – General history of South America. 990 – General history of other areas.

Discovering Dewey Part XI

Melvil Dewey

HOT PICKS

READING ROUND

Adult Reading Discussion Group

Next meeting:

Wednesday 28th January 10.30am

Come & join us for a cup of tea, reviews and chat

Everyone welcome

Bones by Jonathan Kellerman

The anonymous caller has an ominous tone

and an unnerving message about something 'real dead . . .

buried in your marsh.'? The eco-volunteer on the other end of

the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's

body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's

laughing.

The HOT PICKS collection offers great reading material. These are hot-off-the-

press books available at $5 for 10 days! Just the right amount of time for your

summer holiday AND don’t forget to get your $5 club card stamped at each issue.

Another great read from Pam Ayres, The Works - the Classic Collection. If you’re a fan of the funny lady from Oxfordshire, you’ll enjoy this latest offering which not only includes a great selection of her poems but also the circumstances around them. From “Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth” to “Sam the Paraffin Man”, Pam will keep you entertained (and smiling) from cover to cover. 821.914 AYR

NEW MAGAZINES Three new magazines up for the taking this month and a real variety of subject matter. The Atlantic—an American magazine originating in 1857 no less. Content focuses on economics, foreign affairs and politics. Sport unleashed - exclusively sport is full of news, event reviews and interviews. With a strong list of contributers this is a good read, whatever your sporting code. The Takahe magazine appears three times a year and publishes short stories, poetry and art by established and emerging writers and artists as well as essays and interviews (by invitation), and book reviews in these related areas. The Takahe Collective Trust is a non-profit organisation that aims to support emerging and published writers, poets, artists and cultural commentators.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. -W. C. Fields --US actor, 1880-1946