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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

  • Portland library branches unhoused wccls minilibraries for shelters

  • Safe Sleep Village at Former Washington County Fairgrounds

  • Beaverton Open Housing Works for 60 people 2024/11

  • Multco Library homeless issues, Central and Northwest

  • Grand Ronde Library Mon 12-4 8582 Grand Ronde Road North of Hwy 18

• 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

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 troubled students, mental health, very needy

• p43 Waiting for "Superman" documentary

• p43 after Michelle Rhee resigned as school district chancellor

• p43 IMPACT teacher rating system