Local libraries try to sync with iPod generation

Local libraries are looking to join the ranks of those that are tweeting, texting and launching smart-phone apps as they try to keep up with the biblio-techs - a computer-savvy class of people who consider card catalogs as vintage as typewriters.

Libraries are shrugging off the notion that the Internet shelved them alongside dusty books.

Judy Duer, Temple Public Library director, said a lack of funds has kept the Temple library from entering the high-tech book lending arena.