Comments on: Gulag Archilibraria

By: Wisconsin library patron

Wisconsin library patron — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:07:22 +0000

Patty Wanninger’s firing was a case of censorship.
Wisconsin’s open meeting law requires that if a governmental board is planning to go into closed session to discuss termination, that board has to give the public employee written notice along with a statement that the employee can request that the scheduled closed session be held in open session.
According to everything I read, Wanninger wasn’t ever given such written notice, so by not following state law, the Manitowoc Public Library board was not only censoring information — but censoring that information illegally. So here we have a library board who doesn’t believe in computer filtering for kids, but it does condone their own brand of library-board filtering for Wisconsin’s citizens.

By: Friend of womancat

Friend of womancat — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:51:11 +0000

In response to “library peon”:

Nobody who works in a library and cares about that library is a “library peon” –but it is really a shame when one is treated as such.

Regarding the 4 people in administrative positions that have left the Kanawha County Public Library in West Virginia since Alan Engelbert took over as director:

I am unfamiliar with the records law of West Virginia and I’d appreciate learning how to go about finding out these names. So if anyone here can help me out….

THANKS!

You’ve given us some important information that I (and some others I know) have been wondering about for quite a while.

By: Friend of

Friend of — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:35:10 +0000

library peon,

Nobody who works in a library and cares about that library is a ”

By: Jim Rettig

Jim Rettig — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:08:32 +0000

Maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about. Don’t let the facts get in the way of your opinion.

By: Detached Amusement

Detached Amusement — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:02:28 +0000

“Alan Engelbert is currently the director of the Kanawha County Public Library in West Virginia. In the year and a half since he accepted the position 4 people in administrative positions have left rather than deal with Mr Engelbert on a daily basis. Hmmm.” Wonder how long these four people were at the library? Or was it four different people in the same job, on a revolving door basis? Don’t ya’ just love it when a new head librarian arrives and there’s a sudden exodus?
Is it one of those situations with people getting called in for their bi-weekly brow beating? And I’ll bet they went to library school because they thought it was such a wonderful career, too. Maybe up to that point it had been.

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:01:34 +0000

Sounds like a Humperdink.

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:01:34 +0000

Sounds like a Humperdink.

By: library peon

library peon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:22:22 +0000

Alan Engelbert is currently the director of the Kanawha County Public Library in West Virginia. In the year and a half since he accepted the position 4 people in administrative positions have left rather than deal with Mr Engelbert on a daily basis. Hmmm.

By: library peon

library peon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:22:22 +0000

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:23:38 +0000

More like 72 of them we need to go through…there’s 9 kats.