[Publib] Perplexed Librarian 2007 – Part One

[Thomas Pierce]

--- Karen Mahnk <kmahnk at gmail.com> wrote:
 "Unions" they sneared, ruin budgets -
> everything!!"
> I never considered Unions, yet it seemed that Unions
> could well be the
> boogey man to these directors. I explained further
> that having an
> additional librarian advocating organization would
> stem the need for
> Unions. 

We have a union, and our library system is doing quite
well.  We are opening branches and extending hours.