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Librarian Demotions: Not Merely Unfair

by Barry D. Liss on February 27th, 2008 • 6 Comments »

What are we to make of the demotion of the 3 librarians at the Marathon County Public Library?  Good business?  Solid fiscal prudence?  Oh, I don’t think so.  It’s shoddy and negligent – embarrassing to the whole community.  What happened here?  Nothing less than an outrageous incursion of a corporate value structure poorly overlayed on top of a public good.  It’s unfair and I call rot nihilism.  Had people in positions of power acted with greater prudence, this lament would be unnecessary.

The quotes by those sitting atop the hierarchy strike me as doubly wretched in that they render forth two …

Economy, Marathon County Library, Wausau, Work