Day 40:
Thought I’d read through the 5023 textbook one more time (in the hopes that content about planning, organizing, leading, etc., would be subsumed into my sieve-like memory): laundry, lawn, bit of daydreaming. . . made it to page 210/473.
Day 39:
Morning found me determined to complete the second rereading. Afternoon found me in the midst of a busy workday. Evening found me listening to an unusual amount of family unit discourse and watching the season finale of House (notice the political plug in the stall scene?).
Somewhere along the way, I traveled to the ALA website and found that several public libraries are in the midst of attempting to find solutions for severe funding shortages.
“Solutions” I read about:
- budget committee overriding legislator’s proposal
- cut hours
- cut staff
- close the facility
- sign a petition
- cancel summer jobs for college students
- privatize
Disappointedly, all of these solutions are reactive - though I find one of them empowering.
Conundrum: how to refocus intellectual energies towards proaction and advocacy in order to prevent the need for more of these ”solutions” in the future (notice the political plug in the stall scene?).
Linda Summers
