District Court March 17 against the Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, which has been investigating the publisher of popular self-help legal books. The Texas Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, and six concerned individual Texans filed the suit jointly with Nolo. The Gates Library Initiative has announced that applications for a third round of grants have been distributed to the state library agencies of Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, and to provincial and territorial library agencies in Canada. In addition, GLI has formed an advisory group to provide counsel on its U.S. programs. The deadline for applications from libraries in the U.S. is April 30, from Canada April 12.
Librarians rank ninth-lowest in job stress, about the same as a bookkeeper.
Potential job growth for the profession is depressed, with librarians having the fifth-lowest prospects. However, Krantz fails to cite exact sources for his data other than the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Office, and unspecified industry documents.