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For our tastes Excalibur bookstore proprietor tracks down the hardâ€"toâ€"find titles Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff What better business is there for an "avid" reader and ‘"compul}â€" sive" book buyer to be in than running a bookstore? None. Ask Laura Napran, who is both, and happens to be the propriâ€" etor of Waterloo‘s newest used bookstore, Excalibur Books at 29B Young St. E. ‘‘*When I‘m working in the bookâ€" store, it‘s not like I‘m doing work, because I love it. I love digging through piles of books, I love sorting through them. I love talking to people about books," said Naâ€" pran. It was this obsession with reading that led Napran to open Excalibur last October, after she discovered it was difficult, in fact close to impossible, to find "good" nonâ€"ficâ€" tion and literature in most of the area‘s used book shops. So in the back room of the Enook Gallery, where she is employed, with books carefully gleaned through frantic shopping at nuâ€" merous sales, Napran set up her shelves and opened the doors of Excalibur to customers. *"‘Most bookstores in Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo just didn‘t have the books I wanted and I had to travel to Toronto to find them. Here you could only find the romances, the westerns, but not the classics," she said. "One day I decided, ‘surely I‘m not the only one who is looking for the classics, and 1 gave it a shot." "Garage sale time in the sumâ€" mer, that‘s when it was the most hectic. Saturdays and Sundays I‘d get up at 7: 30 to check out the sales, then I‘d spend the evenings getting them priced and on the shelf," Napran recalled. "I dig through the batches of books myself and pick out what 1 want â€" that way I don‘t get the garâ€" bage." The result of all this bargain hunting is that Napran has already amassed a collection of more than MUSITRON COMMUNICATIONS INC. ANNOUNCEMENT Charles E. Greb, President is pleased to announce the election of Mr. R. F. (Bob) Heffernan to the Board of Directors of Musitron Communications Inc. Mr. Heffernan has spent many years in this area, most vecowl? as Partner in charge of South Western Ontario for Touche, Ross & Co. He is a Past Presiâ€" dent of Westmount Golf and Country Club, chairman of the Waterioo Region and walin.g'eon County Better Business Bureau, and serves on Board of Direcâ€" tors of Freeport Hospital, Kâ€"W Community Foundaâ€" tion, C.A.A. Midâ€"Western Ontario, as well as several other Corporate Boards. Mr. Heffernan brings to Musitron a depth of experiâ€" ence and knowledge that will assist greatly as we continue to expand South Western Ontario‘s largest independent supplier of Business Telephone Systems, Background Music. Sound and institutional Communications Systems. Muwronâ€"omw its‘ predecessor Peffer Sound Systems have gerving the communication needs of business, schools and hospitals since 1946. The Communications Specialists WekmAi Kitchener 743â€"2626 â€" London 439â€"2444 R.F. (BOB) HEFFERNAN, C.A 4,000 titles, in virtually every subâ€" ject. She does have one rule, however: she won‘t buy, or accept in a trade, popular romances beâ€" cause, ""I don‘t want to cheapen the store." Of particular pride to Napran are the collections of ‘"cult" novels which she has located, such as the Star Trek and Dr. Who books, and she claims to have one of the largest collections of Man from Uncle novels in Ontario. ~ For booklovers, Napran said, used shops can be goldmines, because often they are the only places that outâ€"ofâ€"print or unusual titles can be found. Another notâ€"toâ€" beâ€"ignored plus is that used books can be purchased at a fraction of their original price. Napran said public response to her shop has been ‘"excellent", and because of that success, she preâ€" dicts her stock will be tripled by the end of the year. She admits to being surprised that the quickest seller in her shop has been the nonâ€"fiction volumes, while interest in popular novels has been lessâ€"thanâ€"expectâ€" As an added bonus for her patrons, Napran offers a bookfindâ€" ing service, although she stressed that because she‘s dealing in used items "I can‘t always find what 1 "One person gave me a list of books to find that is three pages long and I‘ve got clients in New Jersey and Chicago who have got me looking for specific titles," she said. want." Napran said much of the success of her store is that she "listens to her customers" and tries to give them what they want. "I don‘t try to buy to my taste, that would be foolish," she explained. And, although she seems to have a winning combination with Excaliâ€" bur, Napran doesn‘t plan to stand still. In the future she hopes to carry new books, of courge, only "unusual" titles that can‘t be found elsewhere and rare volumes. One of the kega to é)ack.‘mg‘ is the ancient . maxim: "Divide and Conquer." Follow it and the entire operation will be neat and tidy. Plastic min a variety (iof sizes %an hold m:::p ts, gloves and scarves and keep them mung separated . When dyou're tnv‘gl.}‘:&with the spouse and kids, don‘t stick together in museums or 104 King St. W. .‘ um‘ . CR \ From the desk of Isabella Grayson SOME TRAVEL TIPS A lifelong love of reading has led Laura Napran to opening Waterioo‘s newest book shop, Excalibur Books. Chroni "ath Ontario‘s new Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Phillip Andrewes with Waâ€" terloo North, Progressive Conservaâ€" tive Candidate Lynne Woolstencroft before the Provincial Associations Annual Meeting held recently. Mr. Andrewes, a farmer himself, spoke to the gathering about his new portfolio in the Miller Cabinet. Chronicle Staff