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The group were still at the library at 20:00 GMT and it is believed they intend to remain overnight.

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The number of full-time library workers is down 20% from the end of 2008, when there were more than 1, 000 positions, as Harvard centralizes functions such as preservation instead of handling them separately at each library.

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But they were cramped, two- or three-man vessels, nothing like Captain Nemo's capacious craft, with its 20-foot ceilings, library, pipe organ and fountain bubbling with fresh water.

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The council said it would replace the mobile library by expanding its home delivery service and had recruited 20 volunteers to deliver books.

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The council also revealed library opening hours will be cut again - some to only 20 hours a week.

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That isn't to say that Bruce Ennis, lead counsel for a coalition of 20 plaintiffs that included the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Association, didn't suffer his share of interruptions.

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Its database now holds 20 terabytes, twice the size of all the printed matter at the Library of Congress.

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