Liberty County library users will gain free access to 10 million books and other items statewide when the three-county Live Oak Public Library joins the Georgia Public Library Service’s Public Information Network for Electronic Services. LOPL, which serves Liberty, Chatham and Effingham counties, was one of three holdouts not participating in PINES; metropolitan Atlanta and the Columbus area have not joined PINES. Liberty County has been an island surrounded by PINES participants. The transition is under way; new library cards have been ordered and acquisition of books and other materials is being coordinated with PINES. February is projected as a start date when Liberty Countians will hold PINES cards enabling them to check out books and other materials (and return them) at any of the 300 participating libraries in Georgia.