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Offers library science news in the United States. Speculation that Harvard University's Widener Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts will have to relocate; View of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on library Internet filters; Federal funds for the University of Southern California at Los Angeles to seismically retrofit its Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library; Others.

Reports on the possibility that Charles Allaway, a former janitor who killed seven people at a California university library in 1976, may be released from a state mental hospital. Allaway's successful insanity defense after his killings at the California State University at Fullerton; The decision by state psychiatrists that he had regained his mental health and was fit for release; Judges' previous denials of parole; The concerns of the victim's families, that Allaway might be released.

Offers news briefs pertaining to libraries. Demand for Internet access in San Francisco Public Library in California; Prank at the Central Washington University library in Ellensburg; Design of a bed featured in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog that has space for a collection of books.