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PAGE 2 <br /> <br /> ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION <br /> <br /> Several new business information sources have been added to the <br /> Reference collection. Among them are the ~ollowing business <br /> periodicals and reference books: <br /> Business Week <br /> Fortune <br /> Forbes <br /> Wall Street Journal <br /> Standard & Poor's Stock Guide <br /> Standard & Poor's Bond Guide <br /> Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations <br /> Standard & Poor's Directors and Executives <br /> Standard & Poor's Corporation Records <br /> Thomas Register of American Manufacturers <br /> Trade Names Directory <br /> Standard & Poor's Outlook <br /> Directory of North Carolina Manufacturihg Firms <br /> <br /> The library now has videocassettes available for patrons of the <br /> library to check out. our beginning collection of 105 titles-- <br /> 50% of which are children's titles--includes such classics as <br /> GONE WITH THE WIND, ROCKY, WHITE CHIRSTMAS, CASABLANCA, CHARLOTTE'S <br /> WEB, PETE"S DRAGON and OLD YELLER, as well-.as.iastructional tapes. - <br /> The library~also has Videocassette players, available for Overnight <br /> check-out. 7. <br /> <br />To aid those involved, in:research,~the library'now h~s on microfiche : '. <br />back issues of twenty-five magazines. -The majority of the back- ' . ".- <br />issues cover-theyears"1983-1985~ 'with'TIME and NEWSWEEK covering <br />1980-1985.: <br /> <br /> Last, but definitely not least, for the final word on interpreting <br /> the English language, the library has added the thirteen-volume <br /> set of the Oxford English Dictionary. <br /> <br /> COMPLETION OF INVENTORY <br /> <br /> The inventory of the library's collection, completed July 31, 1986, <br /> by the Summer Youth Employment Program workers under the supervision <br /> of Tine Hardwick, revealed the following number of titles in the <br /> collection: <br /> <br /> Adult Reference 1,185 <br /> Adult Fiction 5,214 <br /> Adult Nonfiction 8,179 <br /> Adult Large Type 268 <br /> Juvenile Reference and <br /> Nonfiction 3,045 <br /> Juvenile Fiction 8,373 <br /> <br /> The total number of titles in the collection as of July 31 was 26,264. <br /> <br /> <br />