I asked if we could forgo the raise, but it's in the union contract [which would mean they] would have to go into bargaining...if the union people aren't going to give it up, I don't want to ask my library people to give it up. |
I cut [some] out of salaries because I didn't want to eliminate the materials budget altogether - that's what it essentially would have done otherwise. |
I don't buy 'Debbie Does Dallas,' I buy the ones where the R-rating is for [action]... I get the movies that were [big at the] box office. |
If they can find $20,000 out of some other pocket, we wouldn't have to cut back normal hours during the week - the materials would still hurt, we wouldn't have to lay people off. |
The good thing is that library employees are going to get a 3 percent raise, the bad part is that some will get laid off. |
There have been tests and studies done on a lot of these different filters and none of them are as good as they claim to be. For home use, they'd be just fine, but for library use...it would block some things that adults have the rights to see (like medical information). |
We already require kids under 18 to have a parent's signature on file to let the child use the internet. |
We'll have to have summer hours year round. |