AMERICAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES and labor unions began their institutional development during the nineteenth century as communities developed and prospered across the nation. Both institutions had strong democratic ideals and a firm commitment to free, quality education for all Americans, and so the historical roots of these institutions intertwined. Public libraries strive to serve the special needs...

Run-time resolution of library functions provides a rich and powerful opportunity to collect workload profiles and function/parameter trace information without source, special compilation, or special linking. This can be accomplished by having the linker resolve library functions to special wrapper functions that collect statistics before and after calling the real library function, leaving bot...