[Publib] days of vacation

Mon Aug 7 19:05:12 EDT 2006

I have worked at two public libraries and a special library and in all cases
received 20 days of vacation from the beginning, and two or three or four
extra personal days.

Where I am currently employed, the library director and department heads all
get 20 days per year. Other full-time employees earn 10 days to start, 15
days after 5 years, and 20 days after 10 years.

I used to work at the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, WI, where the
vacation schedule has been adjusted but is still very generous. We tried to
be comparative with the city but in the end, the city staff made more money,
we had the better vacation schedule.

The Wisconsin Public Library Association, a chapter of WLA, has a committee
that does an annual salary survey and a period benefits survey. LACONI is a
membership organization that does the same thing for Northern IL. I think
you can find that many libraries are generous with vacation, if nothing
else.

I am taking the time to reply to this because I was just contemplating
taking off two days here and a day there and I already had a week off this
summer and I must say one of the many reasons I love my job is the generous
time off.

Patty Dwyer Wanninger
Director
Blue Island Public Library 
2433 York Street
Blue Island, IL 60406
708-388-1078 ext 14

-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Helen Rigdon
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:06 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] days of vacation

I am new to the list and just became a director of a public library.  I came
from the academic library world.  My question is what is the average days of
vacation allowed for new directors after the first year?  In the academic
library world, it was a 20+ days (depending on the institution) for a 12
month employee and I was hoping the public world was similar.

When I mention that the vacation time needed to be up for the director, the
board said to research it. (Currently, the policy manual says the director
gets 10 days of vacation after the first year, which is the same for new
support staff.)

Thanks for any insight you all can give me on this Friday afternoon! (BTW,
the Amazon tax exempt discussion was great!!!)

Helen Rigdon
Director
Coffeyville Public Library
hrigdon at terraworld.net

-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Pat Evans
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:15 PM
To: John; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] Whoopi is sitting at an OPAC in Bartonville, IL

We have the Mel Gibson READ poster hanging in the staff workroom, not highly
visible to most of the public, but it can be seen through the window.  I've
also been wondering if it should come down.  Hmmmm.

And John, maybe you should put a sign on the retraint chair something to the
effect that "this is where people who don't return library materials are
sent"  Then again maybe not.

Pat

Patricia S. Evans
Library Director
Victor Free Library
15 West Main St.
Victor, NY 14564-1106
585-924-2637
pevans at pls-net.org

John <jrichmond at alphapark.org> wrote the Aug 4, 2006 2:58 PM:

> Well, it's Friday afternoon, and I haven't contributed anything to this
list for awhile (wife had major surgery; planning for a fall referendum
heating up, etc.), but I would like to report that there is a woman who
looks just like Whoopi Goldberg using one of our OPACs.  I want to go hide
behind a pillar to get a better look, but that could present potential legal
problems. 
>  
> Meanwhile, on the Mel Gibson front...we still have an ALA "Read" poster
with Mel on it.  About five years ago, when we began to weed out the
posters, several women (I am not being sexist, but it really was women who
wanted this) declared that if Mel Gibson and Sean Connery went, well...so
might they.  So old Mel hangs on a wall in the staff work room behind the
circ desk, separated from patrons by a mostly glass wall/window.  He is
visible to people checking out materials.  At least two people, and perhaps
more, have been highly offended that Mel is hanging out on our wall, given
his (Mel's) indelicate--I'm trying to be nice here, give the guy the tiniest
benefit of a teeny-weeny doubt--statements regarding the Hebrew people.
Somehow I'd not thought about that happening.  On the grounds of freedom of
expression (ostensibly), Mel is staying, though I'm wondering if we
shouldn't take him down for awhile.  The walls in the public restrooms are
mostly bare....  Yet I do not want to arouse the wrath of female employees.
What to do, what to do...an administrator's lot is not an easy one (with a
tip of the hat to Sir William S. Gilbert there). 
>  
> And, finally, there's the restraint chair from the old Peoria State
Hospital (closed circa 1972--it was in *Bartonville*, but it was the PSH...a
sister-in-law reports that when she was a kid, her mother, when exasperated,
would say, "If you don't stop driving me crazy, you'll send me to
Bartonville," which my s-i-l didn't understand *until* she discovered what
was *in* Bartonville) which we inherited from the State of IL.  We have a
collection of PSH materials and documents related to a reforming director of
the PSH, Dr. George Zeller, who thrived in the early 1900s.  I don't think
we should be a museum, BUT the State gave us this restraint chair, complete
with leather restraint bands in place.  I thought we should put it out with
some identifying plaque, info, etc., though without letting people sit in
it.  Turns out staff have been getting complaints from patrons because, to
use my nine-year-old's language, it "creeps them out."  Well.  So much for
history.  I see it as *unique*...*unusual*...but I suppose that to be
anti-creepily-correct, we'll have to hide the chair. 
>  
> Well, back to referendum planning.  Haven't raised the General Fund levy
rate since 1975--I wasn't even in liberry school then--which seems like
reason enough for the voters to say YES to our referendum question, but I'm
having a new suit of armor commissioned, the better to withstand the slings
and arrows of outrageous taxpayers. 
>  
> John D. Richmond, Director 
> Alpha Park Public Library District 
> 3527 So. Airport Road 
> Bartonville, IL 61607-1799 
> Ph: (309) 697-3822, x. 12 
> Fax: (309) 697-9681 
> E-mail: jrichmond at alphapark.org 
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