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How to be politic. Censoring by BPL Curators.
Thank you for your interest!
Other than referring the matter to Massachusetts State
Secretary Bill Galvin Public Records Division's
Joe Walsh
jwalsh@sec.state.ma.us
it is not clear how legal fees could be covered
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcaac/aacinfo.htm
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcaac/aacintro.htm
Do consider getting other points of view from departmental
curatoral people like John Devine jjdevine@prodigy.net
Mary Francis O'Brien social_sci@bpl.org
Gail Fithian govdocs@bpl.org
and city executive officials like
BPL president Bernie Margolis bmargolis@bpl.org
BPL board's Berthe' Gaines c/o jmcglone@bpl.org
City Council President charles.yancey@ci.boston.ma.us
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
and the Honorable Tom Menino mayor@ci.boston.ma.us
about why BPL departments' reference desks do not
provide willing, forthcoming and unfettered reference
responses about the lib itself for people who want only
to read and learn more about the lib.
http://www.ala.org/rusa/stnd_behavior.html
The manner of conduct for board meetings has
intimidated people. With that difficulty, attempting an
expression of concerns is met at best patronizingly and
worse with delays and marginalization keeping public
and even staff participation in long range planning at
too long arms reach.
Former Mayor Kevin White's mother had gestured to the
silver service offering tea. Sidney Rabb mentioned that
the lib should be run like a supermarket. Berthe' Gaines
asked for further information and mentioned not getting
information needed for board decisions.
Minutes and agendas have appeared
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/trustees.html
Our Regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
so called City of Boston Public Library Departments
Reference Desks need to provide
1. their very own departments' curatorial annual
reports on collections and services,
2. consultants' reports,
3. addenda and
4. other related memoranda through the year.
Curators' annual Reports,
consultants' reports,
addenda
and memoranda constitute a bit of limited descriptive
bibliography in lieu of actual descriptive bibliography
about the scope and range of collections.
Rather than only go through a catalog, the
overviews would be very useful for learning about
collections.
You could learn about being your own amateur curator of
your interests.
It is a means to an end asking for details about the lib.
It is one way of pursuing other more primary interests
more effectively to which pursuing the details about
how the lib works is really secondary.
A weblog can attempt describing in more detail what is
problematical
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.weblogs.com/stories
Our cities' public libraries have made it a problem for
public library users, public library personnel,
spouses, family, friends and public library unions
collective bargaining units labor relations advocates
who want to read and learn more about how our
institutions work back stage behind the scenes.
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