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The article discusses how the online social media tool Twitter is being used by the California Digital Library (CDL) to interact with clients and new members. CDL publishes the contents of its monthly newsletter "CDLInfo News" and other CDL programs on Twitter. CDL developed guidelines for its staff concerning what and how to tweet, how followers are assessed and how followers can also be followed by CDL.

The article offers information on two conferences in Monterey, California, about Internet access for libraries, including The Internet Conference and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers to be held from October 29 to 31, 2007 and a event titled What's Happening in IL Space?, which takes place on October 28, 2007.

Discusses the idea that the need to provide library services to the Spanish-speaking population continues to intensify, in light of the significant growth of this population in the U.S. Recent growth trends which show the beginning of change in the pattern of Hispanic concentrations; Reading interests of new immigrants, including a desire to learn English; Reading interests of settled immigrants, including self-help books; Idea that major Hispanic groups are interested in reading material about political systems; Mention of Maria Kramer of the Biblioteca Latinoamericana in San Jose, California, who serves a Hispanic community.

The article reports that all 23 branches of the San José Public Library (SJPL) in California will remain open for two additional days per week as of July 1, 2015 . Comments are noted from SJPL director Jill Bourne regarding additional library users who will be served by the increased hours. Also discussed is the renewal of San José's library parcel tax approved by voters in 2014.

Every library where I have worked has held fundraisers, mostly book sales that were sometimes combined with bake sales. In Monroeville, we are lucky to have an active Friends of the Library group that takes care of the annual used book sale, which brings people to us in droves during that weekend. Both of these events raise money, but if we depended entirely on them, our budget would be very small. Perhaps even greater than the amount of money they raise is the value of bringing people into the library. The Library Support Staff.com Web site has a section titled "See what others have done," which offers links to some interesting ideas for library fundraisers. I found that some of the links were not working, but I did successfully follow the link to the Nova Scotia Provincial Library to learn of its fund-raising activities and to see an article in Urban Parks online that discussed "affinity groups" that worked to raise funds for the San Francisco Public Library.

The article reports on the plan to add filtering software programs to the Internet access provided by the San José, California public library system. The suggestion was made by a member of the San José City Council. The proposal runs contra to the long-standing policy of unfettered Internet access and is likely to be rejected by the library system's partner San José State University.

The article reports that the city council of San José, California has voted against installing Internet filters in the San José Public Library to control the exposure of minors to Internet content. The author comments that decision was motivated by cost issues due to the economic recession. The council approved a policy which would require Internet users in libraries to follow library regulations regarding Internet use.

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.

The article reports that the primary library of the Long Beach Public Library in Long Beach, California, will remain open. Bob Foster, Mayor of Long Beach, said that the library was not built to withstand an earthquake and needed costly repairs. Because of budget cuts, he said the library would have to close, but after many library users protested his decision, the library was allowed to remain open.

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.

Offers news briefs related to libraries in the United States as of November 1, 2000. Reopening of the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge, which had been closed since an earthquake in 1994; Tax cut which would limit the funds of libraries in Washington; Opposition of conservative groups to Internet filtering amendments to the bill H.R. 4577; Launch of a business publishing program, Stanford Business Books, at Stanford University Press.

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.

Reports that the Los Angeles Library Association (LALA) hosted a fundraiser with the theme "Stay home and read a book." Success of the fundraiser, which called for supporters to send donations to the library and then read a book; Use of the funding to support the library's reading programs which benefit children, librarians, teenagers, and other library users.

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 that the Huntington Beach Library Patrons Foundation has sponsored a Concours d'Elegance featuring classic automobiles.

The article reports that the Solano County Board of Supervisors in the Solano County Library in California emphasized the need for children under the age of 18 to use Internet-filtering software when surfing the Web at all branches of the library. An overview of the complaint against the library which prompted the action of the county board is presented. It discusses the duties of librarians in line with the installation of Internet-filtering software.

Reports the award given by the American Legacy Foundation to the University of California, San Francisco. Establishment of Internet access to tobacco industry documents; Acquisition of documents through litigation; Agreement between the industry and state attorneys general. INSET: April 1 deadline for museum-library grant..

Presents information on the library-user survey created by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Considerations in designing the survey; Method of minimizing the cost of implementing the survey; Instructions given by the library's resident Statistical Package for the Social Sciences expert, on completing the survey.

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.

The article reports that the firing of Brenda Biesterfeld, a library employee in the Tulare County Library in California, sparked controversy and the threat of a lawsuit. Biesterfeld defied her supervisor, Library Services Specialist Judi Hill, by alerting police to a patron viewing what she believed to be child pornography. She received a letter from Tulare County Librarian Brian Lewis dismissing her for unsatisfactory performance.

The article reports on the adoption by the authority board of the Sacramento Public Library in California of an Internet-use policy intended to balance the protection of children with the right of adult patrons to view potentially offensive materials. The new policy implemented on March 22, 2007, offers filtered access as a default, but unfiltered access can be requested on a per session basis, although patrons under age 17 must obtain parental consent.

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.

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.