June 8, 2010




Dear Reader,
We know that our new website is not yet fully functional nor is all of our content available. Over the past several weeks, under our new ownership, we have been migrating to a new website and new content tools (as well as moving to our new offices in Lower Manhattan). We're still working through all the transition issues, and we'll keep you apprised of our progress. Thanks for bearing with us.

NEWS

2010 Library of the Year: Columbus Metropolitan Library
Ohio's Columbus Metropolitan Library joins LJ's elite cadre of top facilities across the country to be named Library of the Year.
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The leaders of New York City's three library systems again have testified before the city council requesting that the stringent cuts proposed my Mayor Mike Bloomberg be restored before the budget is resolved later this month. » » »
Siskiyou County Library, Yreka, CA, faces a June 30 closure unless new funding can be secured. The county is facing a $3.7 million deficit because of rising labor costs, decreased revenues, decreased tobacco settlement revenues, and reduced timber sales. » » »

Hood River County, OR, citizens rejected the formation of a special library district that would have kept the three-branch library system open. » » »

In a sign of both the tough times facing the library market and OCLC's own business changes, the nonprofit behemoth laid off 64 people, including 55 at its Dublin, OH, headquarters. The latter represents a little more than seven percent of the former staff total of 757. OCLC had 1,240 staffers worldwide before the cuts. » » »



Wyatt's World

Wyatt's World: Sea Stories


Xpress Reviews

Cleage's Till You Hear from Me, Lindsey's Tempting the Marquess, and other reviews just in!
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