This kind librarian agreed to let me publish this email in response to our talk at CIL2008: Dear Michael: I attended the presentation about transparency given by you and Michael Casey at CIL2008, and I wanted to share a comment I had directly with you. As you talked about transparency, the one concept that seemed intrinsic to all you said, but I thought should have been said is “TAKE RESPONSIBILITY” I think it needs to be said because so few people actually do it when it comes to libraries. When I worked as a paraprofessional in a large library, I […]
Daily Archives: April 25, 2008
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Allen County Public Library’s Sean Robinson writes: The property fax reform in Indiana is causing library budgets to shrink across the state. In an attempt to be more transparent and to inform both our staff and the community on how we plan to handle this change our Director Jeff Krull has created this video. We are planning for it to be part of a series as we go through this process. I really like Krull’s take on staff and the library’s preparation for the future. I applaud Sean and Jeff Krull and everyone at ACPL for taking such a bold step […]