Hypocritical self styled intellectual freedom advocate librarians can be unfair in their own practices when intellectual freedom is involved. Around the web we...
Please include something in the revision to the saa code of ethics that addresses the unfair practices of Robert Schmidt in censoring the listserv forum at...
Why do libraries have rules if the staff gets in trouble for trying to enforce them? I 'reminded' a patron the other day that we had a policy about only ...
... So the administration can enforce them when/if it ever chooses to do so? ... So the administration can build chits with the public looking like the 'good...
Thomas Roche
tertullianus_2000@...
Aug 16, 2004 3:25 pm
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We have a situation...where we have a homeless person (man) who basically lives in our back parking lot and then comes inside our library to wash up, sleep,...
Dang! It happened again today! I was told that if a person has over $10 in fines, they cannot check out any more materials unless they at least pay something...
Do patrons have a way to complain about library services or policies? (i.e. like comment cards, an online form on the website, etc. etc? ) When a patron...
All this discussion about RULES and such raise a major professional question -- one that is very seldom answered. Usually people fudge answering the question ...
You forgot "before/after school day care". One of our beloved county commissioners just announced that he wants the library to be a safe place where parents...
... Social workers and (certainly) English teachers shouldn't be expected to put up with most of the situations that you list, either. As for cleaning up ...
Or perhaps PUBLIC librarianship. A nice Special Library, perhaps a Corporate situation that did not 'suck at the public teat' might suit him better than a...
I don't recall seeing in the discription of the group that this was a forum for only public librarians, but I very seldom have seen questions involving...
I think a lot of people are just buying into the B.S. Many public libraries have become a theatre of the absurd. For example, I asked my branch head a simple...
I'm amused at your collective responses. I find Bruce's labelling to be abhorrent -- if I don't fit HIS idea of public service I should move to a different...
If you're clueless and spiteful, you may have a future in library management. True story: Librarian manages a popular website on personal time about leisure...
... Yes, great, sure, but I have clearly been places where this is not the case, where the librarian has to function has janitor, or at least is pressured to...
Thomas Roche
tertullianus_2000@...
Aug 24, 2004 5:19 pm
436
... I agree completely. What I have seen happen over the past 15 years in my system is that by trying to be all things to all people, they have a hard time...
Internet access is not the only form of information access, but it is A form, and an IMPORTANT form. As for the other uses (abuses?) of the internet that...
Does anyone have any experience with working in this library system? I've been looking at job ads since I was in school and I've noticed positions posted quite...
one3
one3@...
Aug 26, 2004 4:53 pm
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<<St. Paul Pioneer Press 08-26-2004 'The Man' can't bust our democracy.url>> http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/9494979.htm [Non-text...
I thought that one of the reasons for the existence of this forum was to allow us to post anonymously, in case the messages were viewed by our own collegues...
Haven't worked there (haven't really even spent time in the county), but you may want to know that some of the cities in Camden county (including the city of...
Sir Jimce, You wrote what I was going to write - the charter of this group specifically allows for anonymity. So I take advantage of it. I can be far more...
OK, if you don't like it, apply the seat of your trousers to the seat of your desk chair and write some stories with more well-rounded librarian characters. ...
It's actually kind of funny (and coincidental) that Louisa barrett's email about traditional images of librarians comes so quickly after the previous ...
By Serena Enger. Single Access Point Information Desk in Deferrari Hall. ...The new Deferrari Hall Information Desk, staffed by 76 PSA members from Central has...
