Good morning, Washington. Getting going on a Monday is normally difficult enough, but we were having a few technological difficulties this morning as well, so thanks for your patience and bear with this truncated Morning Roundup while we get up to speed. Tax Scandal Triggers Reviews in Counties: Neighboring jurisdictions are apparently taking D.C.’s tax office scandal to heart and initiating big reviews of their agencies. Property tax revenues are slated to be scrutinized in…

The Washington Post reports that a recent survey of materials at the Library of Congress shows that 13 percent of the institution’s collection is unaccounted for. And here we thought the D.C. Public Library system had problems. The results of the review, which will be presented before a congressional hearing today, showed that 17 percent of materials requested through the library’s retrieval system could not be found. Four percent was subsequently located on nearby shelves…

The Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Interim Library branch finally opened on Saturday, a full six months after the trailer first appeared on Rhode Island Ave. NW. Residents and neighborhood blogs had expressed frustration with the series of delays that prevented the temporary branch from opening as scheduled at the end of June, almost three years after the original branch was closed. Delays in getting electricity installed in the structure, and problems with the library’s computer…

>> One lucky DCist reader will be at the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight on us for The Cinematics, The Clientele Changes, and Cedars. But with $8 advance tickets ($10 at the door), there’s no excuse for you not to head down and enjoy the show even if you don’t win. Doors at 9 p.m. >> Wednesday night is always the best (the only?) night to head to Madam’s Organ, when the bar serves…

News on the DCist tip line and NBC4 is that the Georgetown Branch of the D.C. Public Library is on fire. The building, on the 3600 block of R St., NW, is currently under renovation. Beginning at 12:45 this afternoon, we could see the smoke from the western edge of Dupont. The library was built in 1935 and has a number of historical documents and paintings which fire fighters are trying to save. NBC4 reports…

Without a library since 2004, the Shaw neighborhood may finally be getting a place with walls to borrow books. The neighborhood’s Watha T. Daniel library, as well as the Tenleytown, Anacostia, and Benning libraries, were supposed to have been renovated by 2006, but after a series of delays and cancelled contracts, there may be some book relief coming. We got an email from the D.C. Public Library via ANC commissioner Michael Bernardo saying a…

They may be short on books, under-staffed, and generally depressing, but the District’s public libraries are now all Wi-Fi hotspots. In late May the Georgetown branch announced it was the first public library in the city to offer free Wi-Fi, and now the remaining 20 branches and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library will similarly do so. The District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the D.C. Public Library’s Information and Telecommunications Office worked…

If you’ve passed near Chinatown recently you’ve probably seen the huge vacant lot where the old Washington Convention Center once stood. While we don’t have an update for what will go on the site (a public forum on redevelopment plans was recently held at the MLK Branch of the D.C. Public Library and in May the Post noted that plans were a year behind schedule), we are happy to report someone will be putting that…

World AIDS Day, observed today, has particular relevance and importance for the District. The city has the distinction of suffering from one of the nation’s highest rates of HIV infection, afflicting 1 in 20 residents, ten times the national average, and 1 in 7 African-American men. The District’s response to the problem has been so ineffectual (some say the city is 10 to 15 years behind where it should be) that in August D.C. Mayor…

Today will be mostly sunny in the morning and become partly cloudy later with a chance of rain late. Temps will be slighly cooler with highs in the mid 50s. The photo of John Edwards is from his speech at American University on Sunday – see the rest of the set by AU student Greg Wasserstrom. Got books?: The D.C. Public Library’s collection is the smallest it’s been in a decade, or 2.56 million volumes…