I received this announcement from Audrey Quail at the Dartmouth Public Library
State of Massachusetts Libraries Public Library Summitmore after jump ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 6:30 P.M.
Dartmouth High School Auditorium
555 Bakerville Road
Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02748
Concerned about the funding of public libraries in your city or town? Are there better funding alternatives? More cost - effective possibilities? Let’s start the conversation. Be sure to attend this informational program that will focus on how public libraries are funded and the regional services, collaborations and resource sharing that currently exist.
The panelists for this program will include:
Robert Maier, Director of Mass. Board of Library Commissioners
Cindy Roach, Regional Administrator, Southeastern Mass. Library System
Deborah Conrad, Executive Director, SAILS Library Network
Sharon Weiner, Dean of Library Services, UMass Dartmouth
Laurie Dias-Mitchell, Director, Library Media Center, Dartmouth H.S.
Rosemary Neto Hazzard, President of the Dartmouth Library Foundation, Inc.
Marcia Beardsley, President of the Friends of Dartmouth Libraries
These panelists will provide an overview of the unique interaction between local, regional and state library services in Massachusetts and the outsourcing and regionalization of services
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currently practiced by our public library
systems. A question and answer period will follow the presentation.
This summit is being sponsored by the Dartmouth Public Libraries Board of
Trustees.
For more information, contact Denise Medeiros 508-999-0726 ext
371 or email denisem@sailsinc.org.
I will try to attend and see what I can learn. How about you?
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4 comments:
I hope you are not going to trot out the report that Mr. Lynam exploded at the Fin Comm. Will you tell the forum there is NO $200,000 opt-out fee for SAILS as your report says?
A great idea to have a forum that looks beyond the confines of Dartmouth boundaries. I look forward to attending and hearing the library issues discussed in an open forum with representatives from multiple groups. I am glad our library commissioners have the fortitude to stand their ground and invest their time in trying to preserve this important piece of Dartmouth's cultural legacy.
Let's all just try to be open minded. It is clear to me that the community does value its library services. We are going to have to see changes going forward in order for the services to remain. I'm willing to listen to what they have to say. The library board will eventually have to face the reality that personnel expenses are the problem. I am very interested in learning more about the staffing situation. Twenty-four employees just sounds like a lot to me, especially when they also have volunteers. How many are full-time? How many receive benefits? What are their responsibilities? Will this be an open forum dialogue or just a presentation?
Barry do you use the library?
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