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San Francisco's new main library has been called "the library of the 21st century". At a cost of $137 million dollars, it offers patrons the use of 300 computers, some services in over 50 languages, video conferencing, over 1 million books, and 228 "talking signs" for the blind. But some library administrators charge that the library foundation's fundraising strategy of targeting special interest groups for major donations may determine the way the library will serve the public. Richard Gonzales reports.

free tolls when traffic backs up, and starting Monday -- a 65 Miles-per-hour speed limit on parts of the thruway to the New York border.

The Smithsonian's celebration of the American South includes an array of terrific bands. Robert met with Michael Doucet (doo-SAY), the leader of the Cajun band Beausoleil (BOH-soh-LAY). He also listened to the Treme (TRAY-may) brass band from New Orleans, and the Birmingham Sunlights, a five-member a cappella (AH-kuh-PELL-uh) band.

From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

- Daniel talks with journalist Edward Humes about the state of the juvenile justice system in the United States. Humes spent a year in the Los Angeles juvenile court system which is the biggest in the country. He found that the courts were poorly funded, poorly staffed and unable to truly help families and problem kids. Humes has written a book about his experiences called "No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court." (Simon & Schuster)

Host Liane Hansen discusses the news of the week with larence Page, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Among the topics: he Clinton administration's response to a series of arson attacks on black hurches in the south, charges of questionable financial dealings against enator Alfonse D'Amato, who's leading a Senate inquiry into Whitewater and the ailed initiative by the President and House speaker Newt Gingrich to set a ommission on campaign finance reform.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including New York politician Mark Green, President Bill Clinton, ark Logan of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and White House ress Secretary Mike McCurry.

Robert talks about the three-year-old Rottweiler, "Gator," who found the last survivor in the bombed Oklahoma City Federal building. Gator recently died after a fall in his owner's back yard.

have reached an out-of-court settlement under which the state no longer will shackle prisoners together on chain gangs. The Southern Poverty Law Center had sued Alabama in federal court, charging the practice violated the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Under the agreement, Alabama will continue to use prisoners on road crews, and their ankles will be shackled together, but they won't be chained to other inmates.