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Bridgeport Public Library Faces Drastic Cuts Lynn Blumenstein & Norman Oder - 04/18/2008
The Bridgeport Public Library, CT, faces a budget cut of some $1.1 million, more than one-quarter of the current year’s operating budget, which would result in the loss of 25 of 68 full-time staff members and close the system’s three branch libraries. The city's mayor calls libraries "not essential services.” More
East Baton Rouge Director Leaves for Nova Southeastern Job Norman Oder - 04/24/2008
Lydia Acosta, director of the largest library system in Louisiana, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, will return to a previous career track in academia by taking a job as VP of information services and university librarian at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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At LAPL, Proposed $1 Fee for Holds Is Dead Norman Oder - 04/25/2008
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) proposed reinstating a $1 charge to reserve or place a hold on books, but citizen resistance has killed the plan. Credit a web site called saveLAPL.
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Cleveland Director Venable To Retire Norman Oder - 04/14/2008
Cleveland Public Library Director Andrew Venable will retire July 1 after nine years in the position and a rich career in the library field. He'll care for his ailing mother and work on a book about marketing public libraries.
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Atlanta-Fulton Library's $150M Upgrade Plan Approved Lynn Blumenstein - 04/08/2008
The Fulton County, GA, Board of Commissioners has approved the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System’s plan to upgrade the county’s library services by building, renovating, and closing several library facilities. A funding mechanism, however, awaits.
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Outsell Says Worldwide Library Market Growing, But Inflation a Threat Norman Oder - 04/03/2008
What's billed by Outsell as the first report to analyze the global library market for all types of libraries and information centers suggests that the $22.5 billion market will continue to grow, but the 3.1 percent compound annual growth rate for content won’t keep pace with inflation.
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In the Bookroom Raya Kuzyk, Associate Editor, Library Journal April 25, 2008 Going to Manderley Again
On my first reading of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, conditions were optimal: cr... More
Deborah L. Jacobs, Seattle's City Librarian, announced today "with absolute but mixed joyful emotions" that she will leave the Seattle Public Library in July to head The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries Initiative.
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