All three of the libraries are entering into a time, or have already been in a time, when they face reduced funding.

The only solution that seemed to offer an ongoing solution to the problem was joining the three libraries together. If we were one library with three buildings, in the statistical sense this would make us eligible for more funding.

These boards are the ones who actually have the power to do something and make something happen. And it has to be acceptable to the state and the county library association.

We notified him on Oct. 11, 2004, that he was banned from all Baltimore County Public Libraries until such time as the matter of the missing books was resolved.

This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time. Libraries digitize their stuff and put it up, but none of the libraries have comprehensive collections of everything. Now we can say: 'We have this particular edition of Mark Twain, but it's not as good as that one over there,' and we add it to the collection.

This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time, ... Libraries digitize their stuff and put it up, but none of the libraries have comprehensive collections of everything. Now we can say: 'We have this particular edition of Mark Twain, but it's not as good as that one over there,' and we add it to the collection.