raising events as a community group works to enhance the Bermuda College's resources.

Friends of the College Library (FOCL) board of trustees secretary Brian Horsfield said the volunteer organisation aimed at improving the library as a reference resource for students and the community at large.

Tonight at 7.30 p.m., Craig Morfitt will talk on Peru with highlights from a 1995 expedition to its rain forests as the first in a series of three People and Places lecture series.

It is entitled Wading With Piranhas -- Fish Collecting in Peru.

FOCL began in 1993 and have received 172 membership subscriptions and donations totaling $8,500 to date.

These funds were used to buy the library a multi media CD-ROM computer to aid student research.

Last year the lecture series raised $2,000 which was donated to the library in April.

The next lecture will be on October 30 -- coinciding with the college's three day celebration marking the consolidation of the college onto one campus -- and will feature Eastern and Southern Africa.

It is called An African Sojourn and will be given by Mary Walker who will be followed by Simon Farmer on November 28 with his talk, A Journey through China, Vietnam and Thailand.

Tickets are $5 each -- $2 for FOCL members and students -- and are available at the Bermuda College library, Washington Mall Magazines and Twice Told Tales Bookshop.

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