More from the California budget front - the Oakland Tribune ran this story about Governor Davis's plan to impose user fees for public library services. Basically, this means borrowing from your own library will continue to be free, but charges may be imposed for materials not owned by your library, and requested for you from another library system.

Here's a snippet: "To help ease what library officials said would be "devastating" cuts to library staffs and hours, Davis has asked lawmakers to approve legislation allowing libraries "to charge user fees to cover administrative costs associated with providing direct or inter-library loans of materials."

Starting a collection of library and information science news sources. Two I've added to my work page are:
Ex Libris and Library News Daily. More information and a list of library weblogs can be found at Libdex, an index to thousands of library websites, and searchable by topic.

After a refreshing vacation to visit family in Hawaii, I can now understand why many winter visitors want to move there. The weather was perfect! However, we returned to the unveiling of Governor Davis's revised state budget, and are waiting to hear what the impact will be on libraries and other services.
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/GovernorsBudget04/pdf/ed.pdf