California School District Closes All 28 Libraries - 8/31/2009 - School Library Journal:
"Pink slips were mailed in mid-July, and the library closures came three weeks after the start of the school year because the district was required to give its employees 45-days notice of their termination.
This blow to the library program comes six years after the district reassigned middle and high school librarians and halted subscription databases due to a lack of funds.
The district, located 20 miles east of Sacramento, recently invested $100,000 in Follett’s Destiny Textbook Manager program to help librarians automate textbook circulation, but the future of the program is now in doubt.
Linda Rodriguez, a library tech at Folsom High School for the last 18 years, was surprised that the district chose to reinstate freshmen athletics instead of saving the libraries. 'What a nightmare,' she told the local Sacramento Bee. “There is no accountability, and things are going to be cannibalized.'"
"Pink slips were mailed in mid-July, and the library closures came three weeks after the start of the school year because the district was required to give its employees 45-days notice of their termination.
This blow to the library program comes six years after the district reassigned middle and high school librarians and halted subscription databases due to a lack of funds.
The district, located 20 miles east of Sacramento, recently invested $100,000 in Follett’s Destiny Textbook Manager program to help librarians automate textbook circulation, but the future of the program is now in doubt.
Linda Rodriguez, a library tech at Folsom High School for the last 18 years, was surprised that the district chose to reinstate freshmen athletics instead of saving the libraries. 'What a nightmare,' she told the local Sacramento Bee. “There is no accountability, and things are going to be cannibalized.'"
