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The article reports on the country's first Library-a-Go-Go machine located in a Bay Area Rapid Transit location in California. The California State Library, Bay Area Library Consortium and Baker and Taylor funded the model program. Contra Costa County Library (CCCL) in Pleasant Hill, California will stock the location with adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles. The Swedish company Distec created the machines.

This article discusses efforts by the County of Los Angeles Public Library to screen out sexually explicit material from library computers. The Board of Supervisors directed the library to purchase 445 new computer monitors and allocated funds to improve filtering and reconfigure computer banks. The new monitors will have integrated privacy screens and the computers designated for adults will have a low-level filter to keep out graphic material.

The article reports that the Miami-Dade Public Library in Florida is lending laptop computers to library users. The library features wireless Internet throughout its 40 branches. The San Jose, California, city council has approved the expansion of wireless access to all libraries and parks.

Reports on the dismissal of a library-related lawsuit in California. Statement that a suit intended to force the Livermore, California public library to filter the Internet has been dismissed twice and, as of April, 2001, is in appeals court; Decision that libraries cannot be penalized for providing minors with access to Internet content posted by a third party.

Announces that the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) is conducting an organized marketing campaign to increase library use and numbers of cardholders. Discussion of the strategy and theme of the campaign, "The Best Things in Life Are Still Free"; Way that library automation created the need for all library cards to be reissued to library users; Customer service survey which was conducted by the library, and which found that some who did not use the library were not aware of library services; Details of library finance at the LAPL.

Presents findings of a report by the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, California on the use of public libraries in California. Use of the public library as a source of information; Impact on the future of public library service; Challenges of serving ethnic populations.

Reports on the full-color books representing Dewey subject areas that were added to the bookshelves of the Public Library of Oakland, California in 2005. Amount of the state grant received by the library; Library patrons who will benefit from the pictograms.

Discusses events that occurred in libraries during 1917. Removal of all German-language books from the shelves of the San Francisco Public Library in California during World War I; Anti-German sentiments at public libraries across the U.S.; Publication by the Lebanon Public Library in Indiana during 1987 of a list of borrowers with overdue books; How events demonstrate that the library community's response to challenges against patron confidentiality have not been consistent.