WHAT ARE OUR LIBRARY's PROBLEMS?
1. Will our library post all important cost data on their website?
2. Who will provide the latest tools, techniques, and training for our community?
3. How do future levies help or hurt our low-income people?
4 How can our community leaders use the Creative Problem Solving process?
5. How can ‘group websites’ support the public interest?
6. How do costs compare for our library before & after a merger with Summit County?
7. What commitment do our library leaders have to give voters informed choices?
8. How is our mission similar & different from other key public info organizations?
9. Who represents the interests of our low-income people on our library board?
10. Is our library deciding based on old or non-existing data.
11. What do low-income people need and how can they help our community?
12. Will our library director post his invitation for the public to meet with him?
2. Who will provide the latest tools, techniques, and training for our community?
3. How do future levies help or hurt our low-income people?
4 How can our community leaders use the Creative Problem Solving process?
5. How can ‘group websites’ support the public interest?
6. How do costs compare for our library before & after a merger with Summit County?
7. What commitment do our library leaders have to give voters informed choices?
8. How is our mission similar & different from other key public info organizations?
9. Who represents the interests of our low-income people on our library board?
10. Is our library deciding based on old or non-existing data.
11. What do low-income people need and how can they help our community?
12. Will our library director post his invitation for the public to meet with him?
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3 Comments:
From: Louis Schott - view profile
Date: Tues, Jun 14 2005 5:15 am
Email: lschott@neo.rr.com>
To: The Board of Trustees of our Cuyahoga Falls Public Library and our
Library Director,
Our Mayor meets with our residents. Our Falls News Press Editor meets with
our residents. Our school CEO meets with our residents. Our City Council
representatives meet with our residents. All of these leaders of our key public information organizations meet with our residents in an environment where problems are discussed in an honest and open dialogue.
Our Library Director, as a leader of our public library, is a leader in our
community – similar to the above leaders. I requested a meeting with our Library Director. On June 1, 2005, he asked me what I wanted to talk about. I emailed him a list of agenda items. I asked him to prioritize the agenda items for discussion.
As of June 14, I have not received a response to the above request for a
meeting with our Library Director.
From: lschott - view profile
Date: Fri, Oct 14 2005 8:16 am
Email: lschott@neo.rr.com
To: Our leaders & some voters,
Our Library Leaders (5 of the 11 are lifetime members and all are selected
and not elected), are demanding over $1,000,000/year of new public tax
money.
Our http://www.taylor.lib.oh.us/ website states the $1,000,000 will:
1. Expand service hours
2. Purchase more books, DVDs, audio-books, and magazines
3. Offer more education & cultural programs ...
4. Improve technology by offering wireless internet access
5. Expand the available information from your home computer
6. Strengthen small business and health information services.
How much money will each of the 6 areas need?
How do the above changes add up to $1,000,000/year?
Our annual CFO Library operating budget is rumored to be $1,500,000 to
$2,500,000/year. So, another $1,000,000 gets us what? Our Summit County Library operates a branch library for $500,000/year. Can we merge with the Summit County Library system?
From: LoVeen Moody [mailto:LoVeenMo...@neo.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:22 AM
To: 'LouS'
Subject: library studies
What ... needs have historically been met by a library?
Are libraries still essential in providing those services today?
Are the historic needs -- no longer needs?
are the needs being met through other sources?
Are libraries the most cost effective method to provide needed services?
At what point should the broad community stop paying for
services used by only a small fraction of the community?
Why increase and maintain public use of libraries -- if most people use
other sources to meet their reading and information needs?
Why not expand the access of other sources?
Can we avoid paying for underused staff, book collections and buildings?
Ref: LoVeen Moody
...
PS.
I spent 7 years working at a United Way. I listened to agencies (ranging
from the USO to neighborhood youth organizations to criminal rehab programs
to health agencies to adoption and family counseling programs and day care
centers) tell me they were essential to the fabric and continued
existence of the community.
Most times they justified their existence based on the # of people walking through their doors (regardless of the quantity, quality or effectiveness of service provided to those people) or the # of people who theoretically could/should use their services.
We all believed in integration, community building and equality, but were expected
to fund entirely separate alcohol treatment agencies with different building
expenses, administrator salaries and staffs for alcoholics who were African
american vs. American indian vs. everyone else.
Same with counseling, foster care and adoptions--entirely different organizations for catholics, jewish, lutheran, and all other people.
Anyway, I am a public library skeptic--don't know what they provide that could not be provided (or is not provided) cheaper and better by school libraries, the internet, book stores, adult literacy and education organizations, or other private enterprises
that will develop to serve public reading and information needs.
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