[Publib] AP story on library outsourcing

[Phalbe Henriksen]

However, the municipal leaders of the town *do* have some money. They 
will be paying LSSI to provide library service and LSSI *will* make a profit.

The municipal leaders are throwing the profit part of money away. It 
is not possible for a profit-making company to operate a library 
cheaper than the municipality can.

There are many other factors in here, though, not just contracting 
with a profit-making company. Maybe the "funding fathers" didn't want 
to have to make some of the decisions they would have had to make if 
they'd kept the library open themselves.

Phalbe Henriksen



>Based upon the information provided by the newspaper articles, this 
>seems to be the choice that the community of Medford was facing.  It 
>appears that the muncipal governing body made the choice to contract 
>with LSSI in order to provide some limited library services after 
>having been able to provide none at all as a result of the loss of 
>federal forestry funds.   None of us knows how they crunched the 
>numbers or what their other options were, but it seems unfair to 
>assume they made a poor choice simply because they contracted with a 
>private company, or to conclude--based on little more than fear and 
>conjecture--that LSSI is evil and the municipal leaders of the town 
>are buffoons.
>
>Rachel
>
>Rachel Q. Davis
>Children's Librarian
>Thomas Memorial Library
>6 Scott Dyer Road
>Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
>207-799-1720
>
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