Library Board

Offices, landfill closing for holiday Harford County Government offices, senior centers and landfill will be closed tomorrow for the Labor Day holiday. All three sites will return to their regular schedules Tuesday. Information: 410-638-3258. Craig nominates two for library board Harford County Executive David Craig has sent two executive appointments for the Public Library Board of Trustees to the Harford County Council for consideration at its Tuesday session. Edward Kimmel of Abingdon has been nominated for reappointment, and Richard Kinnard of Churchville is a new nominee.

Lawyer to head Pratt Library's trustees Sandra P. Gohn has been elected chairwoman of the Enoch Pratt Free Library board of trustees and president of its board of directors, the library announced this week. Gohn - a partner with the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary - has been on the Pratt board since 1996, and also serves on the boards of the Baltimore Cancer Support Group, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and Marjorie Cook Foundation. Gohn also has experience with libraries - she has a master's degree in library science and during the mid-1970s she worked as an elementary school librarian, according to Pratt officials.

TOMORROW Blue ribbon panel 5 p.m. in Room 003 of the County Office Building, 225 N. Center St., Westminster, on the Westminster Bypass. 410-386-2132. TUESDAY Carroll County Commissioners 9:30 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. in Room 300 of the County Office Building, 225 N. Center St., Westminster. The agenda includes bid approvals, an airport presentation and improvements to the intersection of routes 32 and 26. 410-386-2043. Carroll County Agricultural Reconciliation Committee 7 p.m. in Room 003 of the County Office Building, 225 N. Center St., Westminster.

Prince George's man convicted in murder of Columbia woman A Howard County Circuit Court jury convicted a Prince George's man Wednesday in the murder of a Columbia woman who was pregnant with his child. After deliberating for 4 1/2 hours, the jury found Tjane C. Marshall, 28, of Suitland guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Shameka Fludd, 23, who was found shot four times in the face, lying in bed at her Stevens Forest apartment in Columbia's Oakland Mills village in May last year.

Linda J. Mielke, director of the Carroll County Public Library for 11 years, has accepted a job leading a Midwestern library system that has four times as many branches and serves more than 800,000 residents. Mielke, 57, announced her resignation, effective in mid-August, at a board meeting last night. In September, she will become chief executive officer of the Indianapolis-Marion County libraries in Indiana, a system with a central library, 22 branches and three bookmobiles. "Without a doubt, I have regrets about leaving Carroll County," Mielke said.

The Carroll County Public Library's bookmobile has been out of service since mid-December and is being repaired again, and the library director would like to see money in the county budget to buy a new one in the next few years. Otherwise, said Linda Mielke, the director, ""I'm going to get beat out by a snowplow." "I'm trying to find a way to get a new" bookmobile, said Mielke, who pitched the idea to the county commissioners in the fall but said she didn't get a definite response. "We've put a lot of money into it in the past few years in maintenance and repairs.

Addie Byrd Byers, 97, a Savannah, Ga., educator who challenged a policy that kept black children out of the city's library's, died Tuesday in Savannah. Ms. Byers sought to help black children gain access to Savannah libraries in the 1950s and 1960s after a librarian claimed they weren't allowed to visit because the children "never asked." "I told the members of the library board that the black community didn't ask to pay taxes, either," she said in a 1985 interview with the Savannah Morning News.

In an effort to keep library patrons from viewing pornography and other potentially offensive content on Internet sites, the Anne Arundel County Library Board of Trustees is installing filters on all of its library computers. The board's decision last week follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the summer allowing Congress to tie some funding to whether a library system has filters on its computers restricting access to pornography. The Anne Arundel County library system initially decided this year not to use filters because library officials worried about restricting free speech, but the trustees revisited that decision after the Supreme Court's ruling.

In an effort to keep library patrons from viewing pornography and other potentially offensive content on Internet sites, the Anne Arundel County Library board of trustees has approved the installation of filters on all library computers. The board's decision last week follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the summer allowing Congress to tie some funding to whether a library system has filters on its computers restricting access to pornography. The Anne Arundel County library system initially decided this year not to use filters because library officials worried about restricting free speech, but the trustees revisited that decision after the Supreme Court's ruling.