Abifae - Ciao Babies!

[abifae]

Libraries are about to close . This isn't any type of surprise. Just the NUMBER of closures shocked me. I was thinking a quarter, not a half.

Here's a great line from the white paper:

Staffing levels: Library management has aggressively trimmed staff in recent years, from a
high of 480 FTE in 2003, to 447 FTE in 2009, to 424 FTE in 2011. With the current number of
branches, the Commission believes that the current 424 FTE will not support minimum branch
and Central service hours.

So. You cut employment to save money. And now you are saying there aren't enough employees at the branches so we have to close some? And fire them all?

This service reduction can be met in three ways:
Option 1: Keep all branches open, but reduce each branch to 24 hours/week (three days),
and Central to 40 hours/week (fi ve days). Continued cuts to the acquisition and technology
budgets are also required in this option.

Option 2: Keep all branches open, establish smaller service hours reductions, and drastically
reduce the acquisitions and technology budgets.

Option 3: Close some branches and use the savings to maintain adequate service hours at
other branches and at Central, and to maintain minimally acceptable acquisitions and technology
budgets. The Library is preparing budget scenarios involving closure of from 7 to 12 branches.

Options 1 and 2 fall far short of the minimum standards set by the Library and the Commission, and are
unacceptable. Option 3, while creating service gaps throughout the city, maintains acceptable Library
service standards at remaining locations.

There are 23 branches. Closing 12 would be OVER HALF of our libraries.

 

[kcsunshine]

Libraries are probably going by the wayside like newspapers. The internet is so fast I always have the news before the local news channels broadcast it. And heaven forbid, our newspaper is a day or 2 behind.

But, if you're like me, you like the feel of a book in your hand. I like being able to put it aside and step away for awhile, then just pick up where I left off.

Am I making any sense - I feel kinda "off" today - like my brain is disconnected.

 

[abifae]

I wouldn't mind an online library in which ALL BOOKS were available to borrow. My library does online borrowing.

 

[abifae]

The organic version of nutella is uber nom. On apple. With bacon. Calories....

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Hi Abi! wondering if you have tried lowering your fat intake in summer, to see if it helped your appetite?

 

[abifae]

Lol yeh... but what would I replace with? My carbs bottom out too. Which does explain the fewer seizures I always have in summer. And the increased dopamine (ie hallucinations, paranoia, and trying to cross over).

Any ideas are more than welcome!

 

[abifae]

*SQUEE*

Maltese Falcon is showing at the Esquire in Denver!!!!!

Sunday at 1130 am. I am so going!!!

 

[Wannabefree]

And the increased dopamine (ie hallucinations, paranoia, and trying to cross over).

Hello pot, you're looking awfully black today

 

[abifae]

Srsly. I never said I wasn't crazy. Just that you are.

 

[Wannabefree]

Srsly. I never said I wasn't crazy. Just that you are.

I'm tellin mom you're calling me names then!