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Nm4Uc«d PhotoA young library visitor surveys winning entries in bookmark contest.500 Join Library CelebrationThe Rockingham Public Library’s 50th anniversary celebration Sunday was attended by “at least 500 people,” according to librarian Joyce Moyers.The open house included an art works display and puppet shows for the children, as well as exhibits of some of the library’s special facilities.The special facilities include scrapbook displays, a microfilm reader, popular books with oversized print and “talking books” — the latter two for the convenience of the near-sighted and the blind.“Talking books” are narrativephonograph records that may be checked out with a phonograph designed to play at slow speed.“Talking” and Braille books are sent on loan from the Virginia State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.Upstairs, about 150 children and several parents were charmed by puppet shows featuring Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood and The Villain, who threatens to foreclose the mortgage unless he can have the hand of the beautiful maiden.Many families visited the Genealogy Virginians room, which traces family andlocal histories — “always an interest for the whole family,” remarked children’s librarian Ann Webster.The room also contained art work by Harrisonburg’s W. Austin Loewner depicting downtown Harrisonburg at different points in history as far back as 1800.Many visitors Sunday were “regular patrons, but many have never been here before, said librarian Connie Levinson.More books were checked out Sunday than on a normal working day, Miss Moyers said, and 15 people registered for library cards.
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Mon, Nov 20, 1978
Page 28
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