Library workers get pink slips
Published: May 1, 2009
Updated: May 1, 2009
PROVIDENCE—Virtually all of the workers at the Providence Public Library will be getting layoff notices in the mail Friday although some workers may already have received them.
The Providence Business News Web site says the layoff notices are part of the planned transfer of control of the library to the city from the current non-profit that runs the facility now. A spokeswoman says the notices are required by law.
Some of the jobs may actually be preserved.
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Libraries are a staple of our freedom . If it were all from one source there would be no freedom of press cuz it would be censored. I beleive libraries are very important in broadening peoples views on life and society itself.
Maybe the bookstores and video stores and newspaper and magazine vendors and subscription database vendors will be happy to lend for free the millions of items Rhode Island residents borrow from libraries every year! Thermo why don’t you look into that for cities and towns and see how far you get with it. By the way, students are allowed only to use a minimum of internet resources in their research and must use print resources available only at public libraries. Why don’t you come up with a solution for that as well.
Libraries are NOT needed - Every piece of information available at the library is available on the internet.
If anything would be needed, the state could just open up some internet kiosks.
The 1000 users who walk in the front door of my library everday will be stunned to find out we are obsolete. Thermo should start reading more news stories as network news and national newspapers keep running stories of the double digit increase in library usage around the country. Perhaps if Thermo actually used a library he/she would not be so ill-informed.
All the libraries should be closed and save the tax payers money. The libraries are obsolete. Imagine all the wasted money that would have been spent over the last 100 years if we still have a fully staffed “office of horse and buggy department”
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