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Censoring. Flouting our cities' public libraries mission.



Do your public library officials delay, divert or deny
you access to read public documentation on your public
library with red tape barriers?... Here in the Boston
metropolitan area Boston Public Library President
Bernie Margolis bmargolis@bpl.org http://www.bpl.org
and Cambridge Public Library Director Susan Flannery
sflannery@ci.cambridge.ma.us
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CPL keep public library
documentation behind a wall of delay and denial by
their delegated assistants.

Requests for public documents were denied at the
Lexington Reference Desk by CPL Director Susan Flannery
previously as Reference Desk Librarian at the Lexington
Massachusetts Public Library Cary Memorial Library
http://www.carylibrary.org/ even while involved with
the Massachusetts Intellectual Freedom Committee
http://www.masslib.org/


Public libraries users/customers/consumers ,
public libraries personnel and public libraries
unions collective bargaining units labor relations
advocates have been sidelined, marginalized for
asking to read their own public libraries public
documentation


Bernie Margolis and Susan Flannery's tactics contrary
to intellectual freedom principles include

1. extorting punishing fees from you to read public
   library documents.

2. monitoring your reference requests for public
   library documents without responsive reference
   assistance.

3. reporting your reference requests for public library
   documents without responsive reference assistance.

4. inhibiting your requests for public library
   documents with threats of loss of full library
   privileges or with supervisors' and managers'
   threats regarding your position and advancement.

Ironically, the hypocritical environment of our cities'
public libraries hampers the freedom to read in these
important areas of study of public libraries customer
services excellence, management, personnel and labor
relations. It's a circle the wagons mentality. It's the
routine denial by so called intellectual freedom
advocates more concerned with popular issues of
filtering than with their own abridging of others'
rights of access to read. It's a flouting of the
express mission of our cities' public libraries
http://www.ala.org/rusa/stnd_behavior.html


What will you do to open your city's public library to
greater public participation in long range planning
beginning with opening access to the public
documentation of your city public library long range
planning documents?...

Will you put on the web your city public library
manuals, for example your personnel manual?...




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Guide to Problematical Boston Public Library Use
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/Stories

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