The Business model allows us to pay exhorbinant salries to people to sit in jobs that are “critical” or “important” but otherwise “unfundable” under a busniess model.

Further, if our libraries did move to a business model wheere the librarians hound down contiributions from large members of the population, you get something similar to waht happens when Congress is paid for by lobbyists. That is, the organization must then pander directly to that organization’s beliefes. Those beiliefs could include what materials MUST be int eh library and those materials that MUST NOT be int he library. The latter case is particularly a problem becasue it is a violation of the freedom of information and expression rights so granted in this country and expanded by the ALA.

For this reason we have to use a Government Model: we each understand that regardless of who we are, a percentage of out income tax goes TO The library and may be used for anything everyone in the community desires with few holds barred. We still have not go to that point in this country, given how many complaints we get about certain materials that are in our libraries nand how many flags of “You MUST REMOVES [CENSOR} this from the collection” but it is coming!

Run certain libraries like a business and nothing more.

Money makes the world go round…..think I’m full of shiat? You go and work your reference desk job for NO money for a few says and see how you like it.

annoyed more often than not, I’m afraid my Imposter wrote this comment, hence my attempt to rewind it by writing it backwards in the next comment. I’m not sure if it’s a badge of honor to have an Imposter or a drag.

Come on you people can do better than this

Like many classes I’ve taken, mostly women there, the conversations are often mostly dominated by the men. Go figure. Perhaps the commonly female workforce of libraries is, to use a business term, a selling point for the relief – the lack of the spartan nature of business at libraries, the more welcoming, public, union, commons, fair, ….Lydian…nature of pl’s

Sounds familiar. AL, you SHOULD get out of the Ivory Tower and explore public libraries sometime. The are people with a HSD that have replaced folks with an MLS, working part time to save on benefits. Too many are at-will employees that have a masters. There are more jobs that suck than you’d care to think about.