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Reports on the crisis being faced by public libraries in Great Britain that could make them unused and irrelevant by 2020 according to a report released by business analyst Tim Coates entitled "Who's in Charge?" Percentage decline in library usage in the past 10 years; Rise of the national cost of public library service; Reaction of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals to the report.

Presents news briefs related to libraries from around the world as of May 2004. Program of the British Library to save endangered archives worldwide; Finding on a survey by the Irish Library Council on the percentage of users of the country's public libraries who found their last visit highly satisfying; Reason for the strike held by employees of the Ministry of Education's Ghana Library Board on March 26, 2004.