diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6b18f99..aee014e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ tqdm
 lxml
 pyarrow
 XlsxWriter
+loguru
diff --git a/src/mods4pandas/alto4pandas.py b/src/mods4pandas/alto4pandas.py
index 500ac31..7b39c3c 100755
--- a/src/mods4pandas/alto4pandas.py
+++ b/src/mods4pandas/alto4pandas.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import contextlib
 import csv
-import logging
 import os
 import sqlite3
 import warnings
@@ -9,6 +8,7 @@ from operator import attrgetter
 from typing import List
 
 import click
+from loguru import logger
 from lxml import etree as ET
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ from .lib import (
     sorted_groupby,
 )
 
-logger = logging.getLogger("alto4pandas")
-
 
 def alto_to_dict(alto, raise_errors=True):
     """Convert ALTO metadata to a nested dictionary"""
@@ -151,8 +149,8 @@ def alto_to_dict(alto, raise_errors=True):
 def walk(m):
     # XXX do this in mods4pandas, too
     if os.path.isdir(m):
-        tqdm.write(f"Scanning directory {m}")
-        for f in tqdm(os.scandir(m), leave=False):
+        logger.info(f"Scanning directory {m}")
+        for f in os.scandir(m):
             if f.is_file() and not f.name.startswith("."):
                 yield f.path
             elif f.is_dir():
@@ -247,8 +245,6 @@ def process(alto_files: List[str], output_file: str):
 
 
 def main():
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-
     for prefix, uri in ns.items():
         ET.register_namespace(prefix, uri)
 
diff --git a/src/mods4pandas/mods4pandas.py b/src/mods4pandas/mods4pandas.py
index 4dde5fc..e9c87b9 100755
--- a/src/mods4pandas/mods4pandas.py
+++ b/src/mods4pandas/mods4pandas.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import contextlib
 import csv
-import logging
 import os
 import sqlite3
 import warnings
@@ -9,6 +8,7 @@ from operator import attrgetter
 from typing import Dict, List
 
 import click
+from loguru import logger
 from lxml import etree as ET
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ from .lib import (
     sorted_groupby,
 )
 
-logger = logging.getLogger("mods4pandas")
-
 
 def mods_to_dict(mods, raise_errors=True):
     """Convert MODS metadata to a nested dictionary"""
@@ -603,7 +601,7 @@ def process(mets_files: list[str], output_file: str, output_page_info: str, mets
     with open(output_file + ".warnings.csv", "w") as csvfile:
         csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile)
         logger.info("Processing METS files")
-        for mets_file in tqdm(mets_files_real, leave=True):
+        for mets_file in tqdm(mets_files_real, leave=False):
             try:
                 root = ET.parse(mets_file).getroot()
                 mets = root  # XXX .find('mets:mets', ns) does not work here
@@ -665,8 +663,6 @@ def process(mets_files: list[str], output_file: str, output_page_info: str, mets
 
 
 def main():
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-
     for prefix, uri in ns.items():
         ET.register_namespace(prefix, uri)