On Monday, September 5, 2005, at 05:23 PM, Anderson & Turpin wrote:
Pitting interests against each other is exactly what the Board is
supposed
to do. I went to the candidate forum to discover what
the priorities were for each candidate, but you didn't answer that.
You can search for new fu
Laura Waterman Wittstock wrote:
On Monday, August 22, 2005, at 06:54 PM, Mark V Anderson wrote:
> The rest of the candidates pretty
> much ducked my question, but Eric came out with a viable idea. I have
> at
> least one of my votes on September 13 figured out.
( what expenses the Board c
On Monday, August 22, 2005, at 06:54 PM, Mark V Anderson wrote:
The rest of the candidates pretty
much ducked my question, but Eric came out with a viable idea. I have
at
least one of my votes on September 13 figured out.
( what expenses the Board could cut to bring back Saturday
hour
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Of wmmarks
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:24 PM
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: Re: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum
Thank you Mr. Hinsdale for making my point. Calling your patrons absurd
is so affirming of the job the board is there to do. As I said,
libra
didate for Minneapolis Library Board
www.alanhooker.com
From: "Rod Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: FW: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:27:47 -0500
Message: 10
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:23:56 -0500
From: Laura a
Rod Krueger wrote:
Here are my endorsements:
- Minneapolis DFL
- Minneapolis Central Labor Union, AFL-CIO , etc.
These endorsements are more or less meaningless after the initial stages
of the campaign. Their value, IMO, is that it's good to know that
someone(s) more than your mother and bes
Message: 10
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:23:56 -0500
From: Laura and lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum
[The DFL has endorsed six candidates: Alan Hooker, Laura Waterman
Wittstock, Sheldon Mains, Gary Thaden, Rod Krueger, and Laurie Savran.
In his post yesterday, Library Board Candidate Eric Hinsdale suggested that
"MPL stop buying new materials (save for children's and foreign language
materials) until we restore the branch libraries to full staffing and normal
hours."
That's frightening (unless you're a child or speak a foreign
Responding in two parts: Part I
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at 03:46 PM, wmmarks wrote:
Having librarians on the board--including Virginia Holte--is not OK
with me. It skewers the issues from the needs of the patrons to the
needs of the librarians.
I really feel great about so many cand
Responding Part II
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at 03:46 PM, wmmarks wrote:
Fourth: not one candidate had anything to say about thinking outside
the box in an atmosphere where virtually no one in management can do
that. How astute does that make present board members? Zip, zero, nada
c
Mark Snyder wrote:
You know full well he's saying the idea that a librarian can't run for
Library Board is what's absurd, not the person suggesting it. Would you also
say that teachers shouldn't run for the School Board?
Yes, I do, hence the answer. It is not absurd to want the board to
repr
Big corporations suck, and putting their names on public buildings sucks
even bigger. Screw the corporations and their domination of our lives.
Better higher taxes than their creeping takeover of our libraries.
Look at what has happened to "public" television! Corporate all the way,
almost totally
C'mon, Wizard.
You know full well he's saying the idea that a librarian can't run for
Library Board is what's absurd, not the person suggesting it. Would you also
say that teachers shouldn't run for the School Board?
Furthermore, I thought you were the one who'd spent so much time advocating
FOR
> Wizard Marks wrote:
> For example: no
> one seemed to understand that libraries are only about books
> secondarily. Libraries are about people
> Fourth: not one candidate had anything to say about thinking
> outside the box
Topics I talked about (besides books)
Part
(I know I really shouldn't bite on this, but I can't help myself. I'll stop
now.)
It's offensive, too.
Eric Hinsdale
www.erichinsdale.com
From: wmmarks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mpls@mnforum.org
CC: Eric Hinsdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Fro
Thank you Mr. Hinsdale for making my point. Calling your patrons absurd
is so affirming of the job the board is there to do. As I said,
librarians need not apply.
WizardMarks, Central
Eric Hinsdale wrote:
I may be a librarian (I don't work at MPL) but I'm also a citizen of
Minneapolis. My w
I have absolutely no problem with selling naming rights. It happens all
the time with university buildings -- including libraries -- and I never
felt repulsed (for example) by borrowing books from the DeWitt Wallace
Library at Macalester or studying in any of the sundry named reading rooms
at the
TED]>
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: Re: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:46:28 -0500
Much worse than the naming rights, which were repulsive on the face of it,
was 15 candidates, only four of which would >possibly< be worth voting
for. It was very, ve
Much worse than the naming rights, which were repulsive on the face of
it, was 15 candidates, only four of which would >possibly< be worth
voting for. It was very, very sad.
Of those 15 candidates, fully five of them were librarians, at least one
of which is an MPL employee. Hello... Are you
From: David Strand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum-- Selling Naming
RIghtsto Our Public LIbraries and/or Departments?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
I thought that the most controversial and distressing
idea
;
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Sent: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum-- Selling Naming
RIghts to Our Public LIbraries and/or Departments?
I thought that the most controversial and distressing
idea to be presented at last nights forum was when
Al
I thought that the most controversial and distressing
idea to be presented at last nights forum was when
Alan Hooker expressed much enthusiasm for the idea of
selling naming rights to various libraries and
subsections to raise funds.
Do we really need corporate and or brand names on our
public lib
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