[Publib] Breaking News, December 5, 2005, American Libraries Online

[Gordon Flagg]

Breaking News, December 5, 2005, American Libraries Online
<http://www.ala.org/alonline/>

>Library of Congress Gets $3 Million from Google for World Digital
Library

>Cost Estimate of San Diego Downtown Library Project Jumps 24%

>NYPL's Art Sale Falls Short of Estimates but Yields $15.6 Million

>Florida Library Director Fired after Critical Audit

>Arizona Schools Chief Seeks Banning of Perks of Being a Wallflower

>Fire Closes Northeastern Illinois University Library

>Burst Pipe Forces Weeklong Texas Library Closure

>Geography Club Banned in Washington School System

>Library Worker Suspended for Putting Squirrel before Job

>Oregon Library Worker Foils Would-Be Thieves


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