[Web4lib] Outsourcing in the Ivy League

[Brian Gray]

Does anyone else find their information sheet describing the library layoffs
misleading and laid out strange?

It speaks of 60 layoffs campus-wide but does not say how many of those
actually fall in the library. They also emphasis outsourcing the door guards
before ever discussing the layoffs of librarians.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Robert L. Balliot <
rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com> wrote:

>
> The fiscal problems of main street have reached the Ivy League.  At Brown
> University Libraries, the answer is early retirements and outsourcing to
> private contractors. Protesters of outsourcing have set up a Facebook Page
> here:
>
> Brown University Library Matters
> <
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brown-University-Library-Matters/114305305259
> 790>
>
> They have set up an on-line petition to allow others to voice their
> disapproval here:
>
> Stand for Justice <http://www.gopetition.com/online/35760.html>
>
>
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> Robert L. Balliot
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