[Web4lib] Outsourcing in the Ivy League

[Robert L. Balliot]

KAREN MCANINCH, who I assume had a hand in setting up the fact sheet and the
FB page represents the SEIU which represents the door guards and the rest of
the support staff.  The SEIU basically only represent those who they are
paid to represent.  The plight of the Librarians is related and to their
benefit to bring up. None of the librarians are covered under the SEIU
contract.  Nor do they have tenure - except, I think, the Library Director.
It is sort of an at-will academic librarian nether world.  

 

I know of three librarians within reference services that opted for early
retirement. It is a huge intellectual loss to the University.

 

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Robert L. Balliot

Skype: RBalliot

Bristol, Rhode Island

http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm

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Robert L. Balliot

Skype: RBalliot

Bristol, Rhode Island

http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm

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From: Brian Gray [mailto:mindspiral at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 1:03 PM
To: Robert L. Balliot
Cc: Publib Publib Discussion; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Outsourcing in the Ivy League

 

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
Skype: RBalliot
Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm