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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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