Re: [LM_NET] Update on Maplewood NJ Public Library's Shutting out kids

[Jennifer Podolsky <scenn72@GMAIL.COM>]

Interesting how the mayor waits until AFTER the library has taken action to
offer help. I used to work in Maplewood Library and I know that library
administration asked for help numerous times before deciding to close.

Jennifer Podolsky
Glenwood School
Short Hills, NJ
scenn72@gmail.com


On 1/10/07, Josephine Dervan <rderva@infionline.net> wrote:
>
> Found this in the current ALA Direct.  The local mayor is offering to
> supply "sensitive" guards to keep order in library:
>
> Maplewood Mayor Offers More Library Security
>
> Shortly after trustees of the Maplewood (N.J.) Memorial Library decided to
> close the building for more than two hours on weekdays because loud teens
> from a nearby middle school were disrupting service, Mayor Fred Profeta
> offered to supply security guards to keep order. The library board voted
> December 20 to shut down the main and Hilton branch libraries from 2:45 to
> 5:00 p.m., effective January 16, because the students "are not using
> library resources but are congregating in the building to socialize with
> friends," the trustees wrote in a message on the library's website.
> "Having
> as many as fifty young people with nothing to do creates an untenable
> situation."
>
>
> http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2007/january2007/map
> lewood.cfm
>
> Josephine Dervan, Library Media Specialist
> Strathmore School
> Aberdeen, NJ
>
> He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
>
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Jennifer Podolsky
School Library Media Specialist
Glenwood School
scenn72@gmail.com

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