The Library of Congress has had a class action lawsuit filed against it by 45 black employees. You may recall that the LoC settled a class action lawsuit with its black employees in 1994.
Category: libraries
AFPL watch, now out of a job?
Now that Atlanta-Fulton Public Library system is getting a new director and a significantly smaller board will the AFPL Watch site shut down? The AFPL site, if you haven’t read it, is a scathing and sometimes amusing indictment of one clearly dysfunctional library system, board and director written by “concerned citizens” and anonymous AFPL staff. How much of your own library do you see in it?
who is watching the library watchers?
Other pages where the phrase “library watch” features prominently: China Library Watch, bloggish library watch entry, Library Watch name for a library news page, Library Watch newsletter, Library Watch safety program at UofT, Library Watch the joke Fox series and, of course, the Library Watch Cat
another visited library
While I was on a trip to Northern Vermont this weekend I visited the H. F. Brigham Free Library an adorable little one-room library with a budget of 14K, two Internet-enabled computers and a new hyper librarian who was determined to get the place hopping.
hawai’i’s libraries
The Moon Book Club gets foreign language books to Hawai’i’s libraries. Meanwhile, the Hawai’ian library system has 108 staff vacancies.
The library, beset by a critical staffing shortage and other needs, has an annual budget of only $35,000 for buying books in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Filipino and Vietnamese…. the principal difficulty in expanding the collection is cataloging, especially the Asian titles written in characters that must be romanized for the database. They also must be categorized correctly, and it’s sometimes hard to find resources to help librarians do that. [thanks brandon]