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Listings. Boston Public Library Resource Specialists



The Honorable William Francis Galvin <pre@sec.state.ma.us>
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Records Division
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/pre/prelaw/lawidx.htm

Dear Secretary of State Galvin,




Bernard A. Margolis, Boston Public Library President
 has denied people of Massachusetts library reference
 desk services.

 It is improperly required that public library
 information be requested using state FOI freedom of
 information principles for access that could and
 should be provided routinely at the reference desk.

Please arrange for me to read listings of Boston Public Library
 Resource Specialists mentioned on the BPL web link
http://www.bpl.org/general/policies/collectiondevappen.htm



Could BPL, our Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
 Statewide Reference and Referral Center, be directed
 to respond in a more timely manner to requests for
 information?...

 It's supposed to be our public library! Yet records
 management deficiencies hamper access.

 Your appointment of BPL Social Sciences Department
 Reference Desk Curator M.F. O'Brien mfobrien@bpl.org
 to Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

 hasn't yet facilitated access to legitimately public
 documents of our Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
 Statewide Reference and Referral Center.




Very truly yours,
 Don Saklad

 email:
don@saklad.org




COPY
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 To: Ruth E Kowal  BPL Operations Director <rkowal@bpl.org>
 Subject: Resource specialists

 Please send any and all listings of BPL
  resource specialists as mentioned on the BPL web link.


 Reference web link
 http://www.bpl.org/general/policies/collectiondevappen.htm

 "The Library will also make every effort to identify
   individuals on staff with expertise in different areas
   to act as resource specialists should the need arise.
 http://www.bpl.org/general/policies/collectiondevappen.htm




 Very truly yours,
  Don Saklad

  email:
 don@saklad.org

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