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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MARCH 30, 2014

Hi light

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What comes to your mind when you hear books and building in the same sentence? A library? A library can be a small corner tucked in your classroom, a room in your school or a big building but they all have to have one thing in common: books. Books make up a library and it is the best place to go to read, borrow, find and discuss books. Libraries promote reading and are a world of knowledge. Their beauty lies in the fact that they can always help open up your world and opportunities by providing you access to information that is quality, varied and comes with a friendly helper in the form of a librarian.

You can even join targeted reading groups to enhance your reading habits and discuss your favourite books with other people. Libraries will often hold reading group sessions targeted towards the very young through to the senior citizen. This is an opportunity to meet new people, make friends and read and learn more.

Books in a library are arranged first by fiction, non-fiction and reference. They are then categorised by author, followed by category. The books are then placed in alphabetical order. They are then filed with the Dewey Decimal System. The Dewey Decimal System is a library classification system that organises library materials by discipline or field of study.

Main divisions include philosophy, social sciences, science, technology, and history. The scheme is made up of 10 classes, each divided into 10 divisions, each having 10 sections.

This system has a number for all subjects, including fiction, although many libraries create a separate fiction section shelved by alphabetical order of the author’s surname. Each assigned number consists of two parts: a class number (from the Dewey system) and a book number, which prevents confusion about different books on the same subject. The system was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey and the system is now used in most libraries.

You can find the book you are looking for by asking a librarian, going through the fiction, non-fiction or reference section depending on the book you are looking for and searching for the author in the alphabetical order. You can also go on the computer systems, search for the book and get its call number set according to the Dewey Decimal System, the shelf row and search for the book.

You can loan out or borrow books from a library.

That is instead of going to a bookstore and buying a book, you can go to a library you are a member of or a public library close to your house and borrow a book for a certain time period.

After you are done reading the book, you return it back to the library. It is an efficient and costeffective way of reading books as you can borrow as many as you want without having to pay a large amount. Libraries are home to books which means that there is a very high chance that you will find the book you are looking for no matter how old it is or what it is about. And if you cannot find a book in your library shelf then the librarian can look up systems that allow for inter-library borrowing from libraries elsewhere, broadening the chances for locating all titles. Moreover, many public libraries are now providing access to books in electronic form. You may not even have to visit the library (beyond an initial visit to join) but can sit back at home and search for electronic books, key in your library number and password and enjoy the materials on your computer.

In libraries you can find other sources of information and knowledge other than books. The library is now a multimedia zone, brimming with information in many formats. You can borrow movies on DVDs, music on CDs, most popular magazines and some libraries even loan out toys and games. Another source of library information includes readers advisories — these are created by librarians who will recommend new books/ authors for you based on what you tell them you enjoy reading. There will often be lists of subject areas that you can collect for free.

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Although the libraries most of us visit on the regular are rooms or buildings some communities have fanciful architectural wonders, animals who deliver books to children, repurposed phone booths full of reading material on the street and other wonderfully unexpected ways of bringing reading to people. Take a look at some of them:

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The caravan visits people in nomadic communities where literacy rates can be as low as 15% due, in large part, to lack of access to reading materials.

The program already serves between 5,000 to 6,000 customers.

Luis Soriano, a primary school teacher who runs the Biblioburro programme in his spare time loads his donkeys, Alfa and Beto, full of books then travels up to four hours one way to visit villages in rural Colombia. Once there, he reads to the young people, helps them with homework, and loans them books from his mobile library.

The Biblioburro has brought literacy and the joy of reading to an estimated 4,000 kids so far. Amazing isn’t it?

Who said you can only get books from a bookstore? Book vending machines have been around since the 1930s, but in recent years more and more libraries are taking advantage of them, placing them on busy streets, at train stations and in shopping centres. Getting books from these is as easy as vending a can of soda or a packet of chips.

They are easy and convenient but the only disadvantage is you can’t borrow books, you have to buy them.

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Activity

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How to make a cotton bunny Step 1 Take the cotton and glue it on to the whole paper plate for the bunny’s face.

Step 2 Make two small circles with white paper and two smaller circles with black paper.

Paste the smaller black circles on to the white circles you cut. Glue them on to the furry paper plate for the rabbit’s eyes.

Supplies needed: • Cotton balls • Paper plates • Glue • Buttons • Straws or pipe cleaners • Black and white paper

Step 3 Take a button and glue it on to the plate for the rabbit’s nose.

Step 5 Cut another paper plate into half.

Glue cotton on it and attach it to the first paper plate for rabbit ears.

Step 4 You can use pipe cleaners or straws for the rabbit’s whiskers. Glue them next to the button nose.

Step 6 Your rabbit is now ready!

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Hot dog wars You would think holding the record for the world’s biggest hamburger would be enough of an achievement for most people. But burger-lover Brett Enright looks set to enter the record books for a second time after claiming to have created the world’s biggest hot dog — weighing 125lb. The record and food obsessed restaurant owner spent three hours cooking the jumbo-sized snack at the Miami-Dade County Fair in Florida last week. A 30m (100ft) mobile grill had to be transported to the fair on a huge tractor trailer, before a delighted Enright and his helpers began their record attempt.

The hot dog’s final weight was recorded and sent off to Guinness record officials to be verified, according to a local paper. With emotions running high as Enright posed with the gigantic bun, the ‘Juicys Outlaw Grill’ owner used his moment in the spotlight to start a hot dog war with a rival business.

“There’s a guy in Chicago who had the previous hot dog record,” he said. “I’m hoping he comes back and beats this so we can turn around and make an even bigger hot dog.” The hot dog was later cut up and sold for $1 (Rs97) per portion. METRO.CO.UK

Bring out the burgers This man ate 11 burgers in one sitting and lived to tell the tale. Competitive eater Kevin Strahle is used to consuming large amounts of food, but this Burger King challenge almost got the best of him. The task required Strahle to devour every single type of burger available at the fast food restaurant, which amounted to 6,370 calories. After picking up the sandwiches, which included a Triple Whopper and Angry Whopper, the man with the massive appetite got to work. For a while it seemed he may not finish the burgers, but with some time and a little help from his friend who was encouraging him, he managed to swallow every one. But eating 11 burgers for any man in one sitting is a lot of food. METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Chicken coop

It’s fair to assume that a fox guarding a chicken coop (house) is on the hunt for dinner. So when Jane France found the predator sitting inside her hen house she feared she had come across every farmer’s worst nightmare. But she need not have worried for this fox was content curling up on a nest of eggs to keep them warm as her hens happily pecked nearby. It was somewhat shocked to have been found at a school farmyard, she said. And rather than run off, the fox stayed perfectly still while office manager France took a few pictures. “I don’t suppose I’ll ever take another photo like that,” said the 57-year-old.

“The chickens were happily scratching around in the garden — oblivious to the fox keeping the eggs warm.” Found by children at the Flying Bull primary school, in Portsmouth, it’s not known how long the fox was in the coop. France said the school has been visited by foxes before, but added: “This one had a beautiful bushy tail. Other foxes running through our grounds have generally been thin and in very poor condition.” The fox left shortly after a colleague went into the shed. “All the eggs were intact and the chickens seemed none the wiser,” France added. METRO.CO.UK

Cycling around the world An adventurer who was fed up being stuck behind a desk swapped his office chair for a bike saddle and cycled around the world for charity. Ed Cox, who planned the trip ‘on a whim’, pedaled 22,530km (14,000 miles) from his home in Bristol to Brisbane, Australia. He was welcomed at the finish line on after having raised £8,600 (Rs1,400,000) for research into Alzheimer’s disease, in honour of his grandmother. Cox’s nine-month journey saw him cycle across northern Europe, Turkey, Asia before heading to Australia for his final stretch. “It’s amazing, a trip of lifetime but also very tiring,” said the 26-year-old, who quit his job in recruitment to take on the challenge. “I think my favourite country has to have been Iran; it’s such a contrast to what we read and hear about. I have never felt so safe and the hospitality was like no other. I would love to return. I think my favourite moments are the contact I have with complete strangers; whether it be someone who’s read an article and emailed or just a passer-by who might offer me fruit or water, the families who have taken me in so warmly will be the best memories I treasure.” He has had only one constant companion during his trip — which started in May at Clifton Suspension Bridge, his bike named Bridget. “Being only 26 and having worked at a desk for four years straight, I thought it was time to have an adventure,” he said. METRO.CO.UK

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Did you know?

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Word Origins Why turkeys are called turkeys?

In the 16th century, when North American turkeys were first introduced to Europe, there was a bird that was popularly imported throughout Europe and specifically England, called a guinea fowl. This guinea fowl was imported from Madagascar via Turkey. The merchants, who were responsible for this trade of the guinea fowl, thus became known as ‘turkey merchants’. The guinea fowl themselves eventually were popularly referred to as ‘turkey fowl’, similar to how other products imported through Turkey acquired their names, such as ‘turkey corn’, ‘turkey wheat’, etc. The North American turkey was then first introduced to Spain in the very early 16th century and later popularly introduced to all of Europe shortly thereafter. The North American turkey was thought by many to be a species of the type of guinea fowl that was imported via Turkey and thus, began also being called a ‘turkey fowl’ in English, with this eventually being shortened to just ‘turkey’. The confusion between guinea fowl and turkeys, birds that are related but belong to different families is also reflected in the scientific name for the turkey genus: meleagris is Greek for guinea fowl. The major reason why the name ‘turkey fowl’ stuck to meleagris is due to the tendency during that time of attributing exotic animals and foods to places that symbolised far-off, exotic lands. In many countries, the name for turkeys has a different derivation.

Several other birds that are sometimes called turkeys are not particularly closely related: the Australian Brushturkey sometimes known as the ‘Australian Turkey’ is the Australian Bustard and not a turkey.

How to say ‘library’ in different languages Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French German Haitiain-creole Hungarian Indonesian Polish Turkish

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Cool facts Objects with mass are attracted to each other, this is known as gravity.

Gravity keeps Earth and the other planets in our solar system in orbit around the sun. It also keeps the moon in orbit around Earth.

Tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the moon and sun.

Because Mars has a lower gravity than Earth, a person weighing 200 pounds on Earth would only weigh 76 pounds on Mars.

It is thought that Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity were inspired by seeing an apple fall from a tree.

The force of gravity 100 kilometres (62 miles) above Earth is just 3% less than on the Earth’s surface.

Some roller coasters have been known to include g-forces of around four to six grammes.

The higher something is, the greater its gravitational potential energy.

We use the gravitational potential of water to create hydroelectricity.

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Fun & games

Crossword

How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!

Across 2. You can loan out or ------------------— books from a library.

3. The beauty of the library is that it can always help open up your world and opportunities by providing you access to information that is quality, varied and comes with a friendly helper in the form of the --------------------.

7. We use the gravitational potential of -----------— to create hydroelectricity.

8. All libraries contain ----------.

9. The -----------— something is, the greater its gravitational potential energy.

10. A -------------— can be a small corner tucked in your classroom, a room in your school or a big building.

12. ------------— are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the moon and sun.

Down 1. Some roller-coasters have been known to include -------------— forces of around four to six grammes.

4. Objects with mass are attracted to each other, this is known as --------------.

5. Because Mars has a -----------— gravity than Earth, a person weighing 200 pounds on Earth would only weigh 76 pounds on Mars.

6. Gravity keeps Earth and the other planets in our solar system in ----------— around the Sun. 11. It is thought that Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity were inspired by seeing an -----------— fall from a tree.

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