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Case study. State and local FOI. Sunshine open meetings principles.
Sent To: Michael Rogers Senior Editor Library Journal <rogers@lj.cahners.com>
Cc: Bernie Margolis BPL President <bmargolis@bpl.org>,
don@saklad.org ( http://zork.net/~dsaklad http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/stories )
Please consider pulling together case study
How do you manage?
about principles and practice at our cities'
public libraries with regard to state and local FOI
freedom of information principles and practices, and
sunshine open public meetings principles and
practices.
With denial of service, our Boston Public Library
Departmental Reference Desks deflect people from
access to legitimately public information on hand at
the desk about our municipal public library
department and deflect people from access to
legitimately public meetings of our municipal public
library department committees with delay, additional
fees and denial. Fettering information and public
meetings in a manner that unreasonably limits
interested concerned users, personnel and unions
collective bargaining labor relations advocates from
participation in long range public library department
planning is antithetical and counterintuitive to the
very mission and mandate of our cities' public
libraries.
Contact BPL President Bernie Margolis bmargolis@bpl.org
for more details from an institutional point of view.
Another approach would be with regard to our cities'
public libraries as the municipal reference and
research centers for the respective cities. Are there
Mayoral Directives and City Council Orders outlining
for the standard transmittal of city departments
public documents to the city public library?... That
way Government Documents Departments of our cities'
public libraries would be the complete comprehensive
repositories that they should be for city public
documents including even the public documents of our
public libraries departments needed for research and
for long range planning. Boston is an example of a
bad example when it comes to fettered limited access
to public documents. A coordinating acquisition and
accession committee is needed with librarians and
city officials.
Putting ever more municipal public documents on the
web is another version of the municipal reading room
for urban reference and research.
So far, BPL President Bernie Margolis,
Mayor Tom Menino, City Clerk Rosaria Salerno and
City Council President Michael Flaherty have not
really been attentive to the transmittal of city
public documents so that the people interested,
concerned or affected have unfettered access to study
and learn about our city.
Author Information
The incidents described in How Do You Manage? are based on actual
events in libraries across the United States and
LJ welcomes reports of such incidents for possible use in this column.
Send your accounts to How Do You Manage?/Library Journal,
245 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011 or to mrogers@lj.cahners.com
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