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		 Film Showing to honour UN Peace Day on Thursday 16th September @ 5.30pm to 8pm
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| foresthilllibrary 
 
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| 09-09-2010 06:52 PM 
 
In honour of UN Peace Day on 21st September 2010 Forest Hill Library are showing a film on 16th September named 'The Day After Peace' which recaps the 10 year journey of filmmaker Jeremy Gilbey.  His organisation work's to make peace a reality and the film charts a remarkable campaign in Afghanistan.  The film is follwed by a talk from Leo Vincent of 'Cornerstones for Peace'.
 
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| AMFM 
 
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| 10-09-2010 08:44 AM 
 
Am I the only one who finds it rather concerning to see that a librarian doesn't appear to know how to use an apostrophe?
 
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| robin orton 
 
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| 10-09-2010 09:26 AM 
 
I'm more concerned that FH Library staff (who I think are super) will be discouraged by the fact that the immediate response to their commendable enterprise in using this forum to promote their services should be a pedantic and ungracious comment on their written English.Thanks, FH Library - please keep it up!
 
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| AMFM 
 
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| 10-09-2010 01:35 PM 
 
I'm perfectly sure they do a good job but it's a library.  Words are at its very core and it's important to get these things right.  It is not pedantic to expect a post from such an institute to be grammatically correct.  If I was being genuinely pedantic, I would have picked up on the spelling mistake that was quite obviously a typo.
 As for the ungracious comment, I think that's something of an overreaction.
 
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| robin orton 
 
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| 10-09-2010 07:51 PM 
 
Yes, you're right, 'AMFM'; an overreaction, for which I apologize. It's just that when I first saw your post I'd just come back from FH Library where a young woman on the staff had gone out of her way to be helpful, and I guess I was feeling a bit protective!
 
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