OUTSOURCING IN LA?

[Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>]

> HAWAII UPDATE#4 A-- ( forwarded by Patricia Wallace)
> Sorry, this did not get transmitted properly with the
   earlier posts.
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> POST #10 :  CALIFORNIA
> Sue Kamm   <suekamm@class.org>  (Los Angeles)
> To:  PUBLIB
> cc: Stephanie Strickland <steph@netra.lib.state.hi.us>
> cc:  Laurel Indalecio <laindale@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu>
> > Re: Hawaii
> Jan 4,1997
>
> This is *NOT* just a Hawaii issue, folks.  Los Angeles Public
> Library is instituting a similar program, and the director of
> my library is thinking about it.
>
> The fault is not with B&T (or Brodart, which has a similar plan).  It is
> with library administrators who are more concerned with 'saving money'
> than with promoting professional library service.  They (administrators) do

> not understand that librarians working with a particular public are
> better judges of what materials to select than people geographically
> based thousands of miles away.
>
> The Los Angeles Public Library serves a highly-diverse population.  The
> city is home to immigrants and their descendants from virtually every
> country on earth.  (I believe the Los Angeles Unified School District has
> identified more than 120 languages spoken in the homes of its students.)
> Residents of Brentwood, Encino-Tarzana, and Woodland Hills have
> different library needs than those of Echo Park, Watts, and San Pedro.
> Without  selection by local staff, attuned to the changing population,
> the library  may as well close shop.
>
> In FURTHER UP THE ORGANIZATION (Knopf, 1984), Robert Townsend
> notes: "All decisions should be made as low as possible in the
organization.
>
> The Charge of the Light Brigade was ordered by an officer who wasn't
> there looking at the territory."
>
> Sue Kamm
>
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