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The future of the BPL

By adamg on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 5:00pm

The Boston Public Library is trying to plan out the next ten years and is holding a series of meetings - and posting to a new blog - to solicit public input.

BPL officials will hold "community conversations" Tues., Jan. 5 at at the Mattapan branch library, Thurs., Jan. 7 at the Hyde Park branch and Mon., Jan. 11 at the South Boston branch on its "BPL Compass" planning. All three sessions start at 6 p.m.

The BPL Compass blog has started looking at some of the issues the city's library system expects to face.

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By Scot Colford on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 9:30pm.

You're always so good to us. Thanks for getting the word out about the meetings and sending folks to the Compass blog. We need all the good ideas we can get!

Scot Colford
Web Services Manager
Boston Public Library

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By anon on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 10:20pm.

But is it appropriate for a city paid official to be making comments/endorsements such as this on a blog? Not to take away from the value of the proposition... just my thoughts.

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By adamg on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 11:31pm.

I dunno. I'd think an endorsement would be like that Channel 5 ad where the Ashland firefighter goes on and on about how wonderful Channel 5 news is.

Thanking somebody for promoting a program whose very goal is communications hardly seems like an endorsement; although I certainly appreciate his kind words - just like I appreciate the good work done by Boston's public librarians (the preceding was not a paid endorsement).

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By anon on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 11:56am.

...where does Don Saklad stand on this issue, is the real question

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By eeka on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 7:41am.

He's now told us what he thinks of it. Well, as much as any of his posts tell anyone anything.

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By cowsandmilk on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 9:01am.

where is the endorsement? I don't get it.

And generally, if the library linked to universalhub as a good source of information about Boston (which they don't right now to my knowledge), I would have no problem with it as one of the purposes of a library is to tell people where they can learn about things.

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By eeka on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 3:31pm.

It's great that they're doing multiple meetings on different days, but why are they all at the same time? If someone works 12-8 or 3-11 or whatnot every day, they can't attend any of them. The MBTA does this too with their "hear from the community" forums. "Dear customer: we are seeking input from the segment of the community who can take time off whenever they please."

When organizing something that you really want the community to attend, it makes sense to do one early-morning meeting, one afternoon, one evening, and to include at least one weekend day. And provide free child care (and resume experience for the teen volunteers providing it!)

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By karenz on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 7:49pm.

Here:

http://www.bpl.org/compass/

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By theszak on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 5:30am.

What about city archives?... for example City Council archives.

>"The City Council maintains a reference library which is open to city employees, students and the general public.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/citycounci...
> The library contains City Council Minutes, Municipal Registers and City Documents dating from the early 1800’s to the present.

> In addition, the library contains current publications relating to municipal law and finance. "

References
at
http://www.orgsites.com/ma/boston-friends/
http://bpl.org/research/govdocs/local.htm

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