[Publib] New Publist Digest Entry

[sandra farag]

Hello,

I work for a large, urban public library (over 85 branches) who is governed 
by an "all-knowing" board of trustees. It seems that they are leaning 
towards having a centralized ordering system so that librarians and their 
job of collection development is essentially stripped away. Currently, I am 
in an MLS program and part of the reason I'm becoming a librarian is for 
collection development. I always enjoyed assisting the librarian with making 
selections and currently am in charge of ordering certain parts of our 
collection on my own.

Do you know of any other libraries that have had this happen and if so, how 
did they cope with the new changes?? Does it seem to be a new trend or is 
this an isolated incident??

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,
Sandra
New York