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Courthouse Library to Close April 1

An article in the Scranton Times Tribune reports that the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Pennsylvania is closing its law library, located in the basement, to provide more room for the sheriff’s offices. New cells have been built, and the prisoner-handling operation will be moved down there once the work is complete.

In the meantime, the county bar association has been supporting the library out of its own pocket for the past nine months. The bar association is now suing the county over its refusal to continue paying for library materials, arguing that the county is required to do so by law.

March 23, 2004 by Legal Issues Librarians Libraries

Cat-ologue

A charming article about library cats – felines who take up residence in public libraries and win the hearts of staff and patrons alike:

Library cats greet patrons in about 125 libraries across America. Most live and “work� in cozy, small-town libraries where they don’t get lost in the stacks. Historically, library cats earned their keep doing rodent patrol, but modern library cats have more white-collar duties: to act charming and make the library a welcoming and homey place.

There is even a Library Cat Society which counts many of these cats as members.

March 22, 2004 by Libraries

Yahoo Seeks to Level Playing Field With Google

This business article in the New York Times profiles Yahoo, which released its own search engine last week to replace the use of Google’s search results on its site. Other improvements are in the works in order to become more competitive. Yahoo aims to take advantage of its original content and its database of about 133 million registered users in order to deliver more relevant search results and more focused advertising.

February 23, 2004 by Google Yahoo

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