Judge Blocks Simi Valley from Privatizing, For Now; LibraryJournal.com, 2/17/12

Meredith Schwartz, LibraryJournal.com; Judge Blocks Simi Valley from Privatizing, For Now:

"Ventura County Superior Court Judge Henry Walsh temporarily blocked Simi Valley from contracting with a private company to run its library. Although the city expects to receive proposals to run the library by the end of February, on February 7th, Walsh ruled that the city cannot contract with a private library services company such as Library Systems & Services (LSSI), which already runs two nearby libraries, until the case’s next hearing. At that hearing, on April 9, the plaintiffs will seek a preliminary injunction."

Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries; New York Times, 9/27/10

David Streitfeld, New York Times; Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries:

"Can a municipal service like a library hold so central a place that it should be entrusted to a profit-driven contractor only as a last resort — and maybe not even then?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/business/27libraries.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anger%20libraries&st=cse