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...computer communications. The North-Pulaski branch of the Chicago Public Library, which claims to have installed in 1981 the world's first library computer available to patrons, also boasts what may be the first electronic library bulletin board. The system, which lets people with home computers and modems dial into the library's Apple II, has logged 16,000 calls in three years, including requests for everything from book reviews to tips on pet care. A library bulletin board in San Bernardino, Calif., lists theater performances and city council meetings, as well as the phone numbers and addresses of local...
...Typically the omnipresent telescreens project Big Brother's propaganda in black and white, never color, and their shape is that of antique sets. At the Ministry of Truth, no one has ever heard of the microchip. The height of sophisticated communication is represented by the pneumatic tube and the dial phone. And when O'Brien tortures Winston into submissiveness to the state, his instruments are the old-fashioned table with leather straps and electroshock. All of this matches perfectly the external world through which Winston and Julia stumble: it looks like a vast, bombed- out housing development. Cameron thus carefully...
Afternoon television no longer is the only place to watch "Get Smart" reruns, just turn the dial to the six o'clock news to catch the newest episodes now taking place at the Geneva Arms-Talks...
...growing number of cities, using only telephones, operate thriving hotlines. Brooklyn's Central Library, with funding from the New York City board of education, runs a homework hotline Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for all twelve grades. Another New York student service, Dial-A-Teacher, gets a fair number of calls from mothers and fathers trying to be home tutors. "Parents generally say to us that math is taught so much differently from when they attended school," observes Betty Holmes of the sponsoring United Federation of Teachers...
...world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird...