New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented a $68.7 billion preliminary FY12-13 budget on February 2 that, as usual, proposes Draconian cuts for the city’s three library systems.
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Bloomberg Proposes Cutting NYC Library Funding by Nearly $100 Million
February 8, 2012 By 3 Comments
Sharing for the Future | Blatant Berry
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
From the beginning of the modern library movement librarians have unselfishly shared their best ideas, innovations, strategies, management insights, and plans with one another. While there has been some competition and rivalry among libraries, it has never hampered the profession’s willingness to share success and failures.
An Excess of Ethics | Blatant Berry
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
No principle or rule of professional ethics requires that library workers forfeit any of their rights or job benefits in order to hold their jobs. Support for professional development and advancement is a benefit of working in good libraries. This often includes time off and even payment of costs for conference attendance. I was surprised [...]
Welbourne’s Legacy | Blatant Berry
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Enlist the New Librarians! | Blatant Berry
September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
THE BRIGHT, NEW YOUNG LIBRARIANS graduating from our LIS programs are the best news in this awful period of library decline. Every semester my classes at Pratt Institute in New York and Dominican University in the Chicago suburb of River Forest bring a new cohort of students, each as good as or better than the [...]
Renewing Our Mission | Blatant Berry
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been a Pete Hamill fan for decades, and I’ve met him a few times. We’re close in age, so I recognize the New York City that he writes about in his latest novel, Tabloid City (Little, Brown, May). I think I know the difference between the solitude and loneliness that we both experienced living [...]
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