21.   She said Ramirez targeted the library system repeatedly for budget cuts, reductions that hamstrung her decision-making.

22.   Seattle police believe the boy crashed the library system in a fit of pique.

23.   Smigler said that New York and Buffalo asked not to be included because of the size and complexity of their library systems.

24.   She was an avid reader, benefiting, she points out, from the library system that Andrew Carnegie established in Canada.

25.   Six of the eight plaintiffs remain employed with the library system.

26.   StorageTek last year formed an alliance with IBM to market its high-end Iceberg and Kodiak library systems, which store information directly on disk.

27.   The American Civil Liberties Union, individual library systems and health-related Web sites were also plaintiffs in the case.

28.   The jury determined the library system itself was not liable because there are no race-based policies or procedures, Hughes said.

29.   The idea, however, spun like the pages of a thriller when other cities and library systems got wind of it.

30.   The library system has a half-dozen fewer librarians than two decades ago.