Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
Well said MD! We want our library doors open!WM: If you want library doors open, then you are going to have to persuade the board of MPL and it's staff that the way they have deployed staff has been screwy for the last 10 years or better. Look particularly at circulation statistics for ALL libraries and the staff count for those community libraries with the highest stats. Then compare that with Central stats. and Central staff count. I believe that you will discover that Central has far more staff members (just in the library itself, not in the admin. depts.) than its circulation warrants. Granted, some people who use Central come there for reference documents which cannot circulate, but then people come to community libraries for reference work as well. The over-staffing of Central predates the recent extreme budget cuts by years.
Vis-a-vis Walker, I have no idea why the board is even discussing sharing space with private entities. Walker is extremely busy, it's on at least six bus lines, it's incredibly convenient and, as such, it's in a primo position to build patronage of the library. In a nation which is becoming more illiterate by the year, this is an important function for libraries.
WizardMarks, Central
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