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Overdue

Reckoning with the Public Library

Amanda Oliver 2022 MurrayScholls 027.473 OLI

Amanda Oliver website Buffalo NY -> Joshua Tree, CA
p03 Northwest One Library in DC
p06 More libraries than Starbucks, 10.5 adult visits/yr.
p07 ALA 2019 Report / Unhoused / Addicted / mental health
p8-10 unwelcome patron comment .p13 author guilt
p14 Library Company of Philadelphia 1731 p16 colored forbidden
p17 1st American public library Boston Mason Street 1854 March 20 1870 second branch, Boston Public Library
- Multnomah County Public Library March 1864
p18 75% of public libraries created by women's club activism
p19 Carnegie 1883-1928 $60M to fund 1700 US public libraries - in Oregon map
p21-23 Colored Carnegie Libraries
p24 The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South Wiegand 2018
p26 ALA Policy 61 Library Services for the Poor
p28 2018 Librarians, Black and Asian relatively underrepresented

White	149692	1.0000	160654446	1.0000	100% relative representation	add:
Black	11213	0.0749	30830632	0.1919	39% relative representation	17514
Asian	6938	0.0463	14850826	0.0924	50% relative representation	6900

At $24,479 per MLS, the cost of training additional "underrepresenteds" would be around $600M. The mean (non-burdened) salary cost is $58K. At a 7% future discount rate all those full career salaries might be 2 billion dollars for all time; about one year of total library and archive funding.

p29 Author 7 years in DC Public Schools and DC Public Library
p31 Author first library in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsville,_New_York suburb of Buffalo NY
p32 Author born 1985, father Episcopal Church sexton low salary, low respect
p35 14 yo first minwage job, 15 yo two more, p36 plus shoplifting, caught age 18, record cleared after probation
p38 MLS program at University of Buffalo graduated 2011(?),
p39 first job Thomson Elementary School in DC
p40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodley_Park_(Washington,_D.C.) basement flat $1300/mo, salary $1300 biweekly
p41 challenging students

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+ .p28 2018 Librarians, Black and Asian relatively underrepresented 

|| White || 149692 || 1.0000 || 160654446 || 1.0000 || 100% relative representation || add:  ||
|| Black ||  11213 || 0.0749 ||  30830632 || 0.1919 ||  39% relative representation || 17514 ||
|| Asian ||   6938 || 0.0463 ||  14850826 || 0.0924 ||  50% relative representation ||  6900 ||

At $24,479 per MLS, the cost of training additional "underrepresenteds" would be around $600M.  The mean (non-burdened) salary cost is $58K.  At a 7% future discount rate all those full career salaries might be 2 billion dollars for all time; about one year of total library and archive funding.  

 .p29 Author 7 years in DC Public Schools and DC Public Library
 .p31 Author first library in [[ Willamsville | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsville,_New_York ]] suburb of Buffalo NY
 .p32 Author born 1985, father Episcopal Church [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_(office) | sexton ]] low salary, low respect
 .p35 14 yo first minwage job, 15 yo two more, p36 plus shoplifting, caught age 18, record cleared after probation
 .p38 MLS program at University of Buffalo graduated 2011(?), 
 .p39 first job [[ https://www.thomsondcps.org/ | Thomson Elementary School ]] in DC
 .p40 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodley_Park_(Washington,_D.C.) || Woodley Park ]] basement flat $1300/mo, salary $1300 biweekly
 .p41 challenging students