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Finney County, Kansas Joins Trend of Outsourcing Public Library Service.

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| January 21, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2009 Business Wire. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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GARDEN CITY, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003

The Board of Trustees for the Finney County Public Library, headquartered in Garden City, KS, has retained a private company for the day-to-day management of its public library.

It is the first library in the State of Kansas to outsource its library services to a private company.

"Finney County joins a growing trend of municipal and county governments to out-source public library services," said Frank Pezzanite, founder and President of Library Systems & Services LLC (LSSI) which was awarded an initial two-year contract effective January 1. "Its library is a significant…

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