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Offers a look at OneCleveland, an ultrabroadband technology network platform, that could transform the library's educational role in Ohio. Transition from analog to digital systems; Importance of Internet access for library users; Role of public libraries in providing network connectivity; Role of OneCleveland in collaboration with Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL) in addressing social inclusion through Internet access; Distance education offered by Cleveland State University to subscribers at libraries; Cooperation between the Cleveland Museum of Art and CCPL.

Reports news related to libraries as of January, 2003. Additional funding for sixty additional staff positions at the Jacksonville Public Library in Florida; Recommended raises for staffers at the Akron-Summit County Public Library; Use of a public library computer at the Warren Public Library in Michigan by a teenager who sent e-mail messages to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation threatening to kill U.S. President George W. Bush; Retirement of Harold Billings, director of general libraries at the University of Texas at Austin; Other news.

Reports that the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Ohio reopened its main facility in late August 2001, after a three-year renovation project. Addition of more space, public-access computers, Internet access ports, and a technology center; Funding for the project.

Reports on the decision of the Ohio House of Representatives on December 15, 2004 not to concur with the Senate version of a harmful-to-minors bill that would prohibit public libraries from using state funds to purchase computers or Internet access unless all their public terminals have filtering software installed. Other provision included in the bill; Purpose of the House Bill 132 passed by the Senate; Implication of the House's failure to concur with the amended bill.