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Ontario's controversial Pay Equity Act, 1987 has had a profound impact on public libraries. In some cases it has resulted in substantial salary increases to workers in this female-intensive sector. In other instances, however, the pay equity process has been stalled and no salary adjustments made because of ambiguities in the wording of the legislation and a reluctance on the part of some municipalities to include library workers in their pay equity plans. Problems with the original legislation and the 1993 amendments to the Act are discussed, as well as the results of a survey of public libraries across the province vis-a-vis the implementation of the pay equity process. The results highlight what is becoming for many an increasingly uneasy relationship between public library administrators and their municipal colleagues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]