Library: Place Of Discovery (1965)

[Music] oh [Music] all right said Paul bunion if rain iner won't work I'll fill the whole thing in so Paul bunan took his great shovel and he began to toss dirt into the river Billy Pilgrim looked nervous all right he shouted it's more than it's worth but I'll pay you half Paul bunan kept throwing through the river until he had thrown a thousand shovel fulls by this time Billy Pilgrim's face was flushed bright red and it Began to Twitch finally he shot it stop I'll pay it all so Paul bunan was paid what he was promised but the Thousand shovel fools are still there and today people call them the Thousand Islands did you like it it is a good story when my story was over many of the children wanted to take home books about Paul bunan but especially Susan because she' missed most of the story when she looked up Paul bunan however she was surprised to find not one but several Paul bunion books all by different authors Miss Grandy there are eight different Paul bunion books here are all by different authors how could this be well the Paul bunan stories are folktales that were made up by some of the early Pioneers as they moved West and they were told around the campfires and the stoves and logging camps and Road gangs all over the country we don't know who really made them up but we do know that many different people did you'd better hurry though I think Paul bunan will be a popular choice today [Music] so were all these people involved in The Westward Movement going to the same place no no they weren't in class the next school day during social studies Susan had something she wanted to share with the class Miss toin Saturday at the library The Story Hour was about Paul buan and I took this book out these stories were made up by early Pioneers moving out towards the west and even though these are Tall Tales I think you can learn something about those men from the stories and I was wondering if I could do my project on PA in the lumbering in that'll be fine Susan class who else would be interested in working with Susan the class unit on the westward expansion had reached the point where students were developing special projects relating to it on their own Susan's idea stimulated a general discussion on folklore and when it was over five other students had decided to join with her in preparing a presentation of some kind at their first meeting they deed a variety of approaches without agreement then Susan had a thought to do a kind of TV show with puppets they all agreed that had great possibilities and before their meeting broke up they had decided Susan and Sharon would look into story material and start working out a script Ben and Jimmy were going to tackle the problem of the stage and Mark and Jack were to look into the matter of the puppets Jack have you been many puppets before Oh uh- where should we start the library man what a brain wow it's call me Einstein I think I'll look around and see what I can find well I think I'll take the card catalog first okay Mark knows very well how to use the card catalog he knows that books in the library are listed alphabetically by Title by author and by subject Mark didn't know any names of books might want or the authors so he just looked for the subject card puppets and he was surprised to see how many different books the library had on the subject one book sounded especially good so Mark made a note of the call number this number shows where the book is on the shelves the letter on the second line stands for the name of the author it seemed to mark that the call number of a book on the Shelf was very much like a house address on A Street books on a similar subject were all grouped together as if they were in one neighborhood with a different group number for each subject for example 500s for Natural Science 600s for applied science technology 700s for Fine Arts and Recreation what Mark was looking for this system or one not very different from it is used in libraries all over the country School libraries public libraries libraries in government and business organizations and Mark could go into any one of them without being entirely strange Jack seems to have stopped in another neighborhood wonder what he's found there Jack seems to have been temporarily diverted he finds it hard to walk through a library with so many goodies without stopping to sample a few hello Jack are you finding what you want boy this book is real key it's about space travel and everything it is a good one but Mark and I working on a puppet show about Paul bunan I'm supposed to be looking for something that would help us well I see that Mark found the books on puppetry have you thought about how you want Paul to look no that's something I need to find out and also how l Camp a look why don't you look in the vertical file for some pictures under lumbering and I think if you look in the card catalog you might find that we have a film strip about Paul bunion that ought to help you get started gee thanks [Music] there was no doubt the vertical files held promise of being useful for pictures and pamphlets Jack you might be interested in the transparencies too we have a collection of these of maps and charts and things that you might use with the overhead projector hey yeah we could project one as a background and we could make something new of our own couldn't we yes lots of kids do the transparencies and overhead projectors are not the only features besides books to be found in the library in Jack's school in the card catalog are to be found listings of charts records and magnetic tapes kits film strips films and much more all listed on cards with different color bands for there are many ways to bring you information and libraries can be centers for these different materials and the equipment to use them for example science trays contain materials the class or individual student may work with on magnetism air electricity and the like tapes may be found with expert talks or dramatic stories or music programs in Jack School the equipment centered in the library may be used right there or moved for use throughout the [Music] school FS for film strip hey look what I found a film strip on PA onion [Music] neat with his ax which is wi as a barn door Paul could level forest in a single day he and his Woodsman logged off the entire state of North Dakota in a single month you know maybe we had to know something about lumbering you wouldn't happen to have a book here on it would you no but there must be something in the encyclopedia we have a stack of Old National Geographics that might have something the library in Sharon's home has books in it that she and her family have loved reading some reference books like the encyclopedia she's using now some magazines and of course a dictionary here it is Lumber lumbering was one of the earliest Industries to be sted in colonial America hey look at this picture of lumbering [Music] [Music] while the puppets were taking shape in Sharon house Ben and Jimmy were getting a good start on the stage with some help from some people they had never even met one evening Susan went along to the library with her father the public library serves the entire community and Susan's father and mother use it as much as she does Miss Grandy I wanted to make a map on Paul bunan sh him where he went have you checked the atlases I looked in an atlas but the only thing I could find had too much stuff in it had cities and counties and all that well you should check some of the other atlases they're map showing all sorts of different things look here a map showing population climate minerals rainfall there are lots of different kinds of information you can put on a map or maybe you could take a topographic map one showing the mountains and the flames and the rivers and you could make an outline of just the states that you want to show on it or let me see we have some historical maps that show the country back when people were first telling those stories about Paul bunan Susan told me how my story hour had been indirectly responsible for her class project I was very pleased that sounds very interesting Susan hello hello how are you today you know there are many stories and books about pioneer life that you might like to read she I would well let's see there there's caddy woodl the Little House on the Prairie Narcissa Whitman and I enjoyed Children of the covered wagon oh yes that's a good one I'll see what's in fine find what you wanted yeah as I sat down one evening within a small Mark thought some folk music would liven up their production and in the record collection in the school library he found several promising albums I see that your a logger and not a common BM calls nobody but a logger with [Music] his Jack finds the library a delightful Place full of treasures to enrich his life sometimes with learning sometimes just with fun and he is always ready to taste to sample to enjoy Jack's interest in books is one he will never lose in high school and college and in his home life there will always be libraries for study and for pleasure for being indirectly responsible I was invited to attend the performance of the show gee I'm bored I wonder what's on TV Don't Wait Another Minute folks run right down to your nearest favorite friendly roach exterminator and ask for bugoni the roaches love it they'll kill right over folks but they'll die happy turn off that blasted idiot box I'm trying to get these bills paid Oh Daddy you're such a Sour Puss [Music] maybe there's something on another Channel tonight we take you to a logging camp in the Minnesota Woods where the greatest logger of them all is waiting to tell you about the time he made the Thousand Islands and here he is him and his big overgrown self Paul buan howy folks first I want you to meet some of the men who live me in the woods hot biscuit slim Johnny inkslinger cream puff fatty Billy Whiskers and babe my blue walks say hi to the folks babe Mo before our exciting Story begins would' like to present those singing act swinging sensationals that termites for was a and with yeah yeah yeah the feature story of their show wasn't even started when Jack began talking about another idea he had see I got a great idea for a science project you know space travel we can make a rocket ship and send it in outer space gee that's going to take a lot of work and you'll have to get a lot of information and materials don't worry I've got a secret weapon I figured out a place where I can get everything I need need the library yes the library a secret weapon for everybody [Applause] [Applause] [Music]