I came across this. Sadly, things had gone down hill. Dempsey is flouting the contract by removing many of the most experienced reference librarians and subject specialists, leaving the less experienced librarians on the frontlines of what is supposed to be Chicagos premier public research facility. Thus it will be that science, history, literature, music, or foreign language librarians (or government document specialists) with many years and even decades of experience will be scattered to the branches where the paucity of such collections will insure that their particular knowledge and skills will be underutilized, and largely unavailable to the throngs of students and general readers who descend upon HWLC precisely because of the inadequacy of branch collections. The transfer of so many veteran staff will be followed by the installation of more Internet terminals at HWLC and more flexible use of remaining staff migrating from counter to counter to service these computers. The fate of the dwindling book collection in this environment of hyper-technology and scant time for remaining librarians to pay attention to subject collections can only be imagined.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 07:00:04 +0000
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