Thank You Mayor DiBlasio and Borough President Katz

I am glad we have two elected officials who did the right thing by firing 8 members of the Board of Trustees of Queens Library.  This entire episode with Thomas Galante was a digrace to taxpayers who have supported the Queens Library for years.  Funds should be used to purchase resources and equpment to support the mission of the library.  Their librarians and support staff should be paid at the same level as other similar employees in NYC.

Article in Queeens Courier

Reconnecting with a Former Colleague Through a Listserv Posting

In recent years I have reconnected with old friends and colleagues, but today for the first time I reconnected with a colleague through a listserv posting.  I recently joined the College Librarians listserv and found a posting by Patricia.  As I have mentioned in this blog before, I worked at the Science and Technology Division of NYPL from 1983-1990.  Near the end of my tenure there Patricia worked in the division as an intern.

She had posted about using the Wikipedia as a teaching tool.  I referred her to one of my colleagues who teaches a class at NJIT where students expand on a stub in the Wikipedia.

Patricia worked in medical libraries for some time and now works in a New York City high school library.  She was glad that I remembered her and the nickname she used back then.