== Overdue == ==== Reckoning with the Public Library ==== ==== Amanda Oliver 2022 MurrayScholls 027.473 OLI ==== . [[ https://www.amandaoliver.com/ | Amanda Oliver website ]] Buffalo NY -> [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Joshua+Tree,+CA+92252/@34.1266869,-116.321196,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x80dad045fbc95001:0xe4e7fe5a00146bc3!8m2!3d34.134728!4d-116.3130661!16zL20vMHI0am0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | Joshua Tree, CA ]] .p03 [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Northwest+One+Neighborhood+Library/@38.8958692,-77.0154833,16z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b7b7f4d5d73e03:0x86352a22c394c5ab!8m2!3d38.9039266!4d-77.0136058!16s%2Fg%2F11cn2_mq6_?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | 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 [[ https://www.wccls.org/news/mini-libraries-homeless-shelters | wccls minilibraries for shelters ]] . [[ https://katu.com/news/local/washington-co-to-open-sleep-safe-village-to-combat-covid-19-among-homeless | Safe Sleep Village at Former Washington County Fairgrounds ]] .[[ https://www.beavertonoregon.gov/371/Beaverton-Homeless-Shelter | Beaverton Open Housing Works for 60 people 2024/11 ]] .[[ https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/multnomah-county-library-workers-unsafe-drug-overdoses-homelessness/283-45456d0a-ee39-46b3-ab01-bfe95a19f62e | Multco Library homeless issues, Central and Northwest ]] .[[ https://www.hereisoregon.com/places/2022/02/the-lonely-library-one-woman-keeps-the-grand-ronde-library-alive-one-afternoon-a-week.html | Grand Ronde Library Mon 12-4 ]] [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/8582+Grand+Ronde+Rd,+Grand+Ronde,+OR+97347/@45.0596497,-123.6104102,19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x54eab97c7c22fd51:0x65f81b43b811dbfe!8m2!3d45.0598916!4d-123.6093361?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | 8582 Grand Ronde Road North of Hwy 18 ]] .p8-10 unwelcome patron comment .p13 author guilt .p14 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Company_of_Philadelphia | Library Company of Philadelphia ]] 1731 p16 colored forbidden .p17 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Public_Library | 1st American public library Boston Mason Street 1854 March 20 ]] 1870 second branch, [[ https://www.bpl.org/ | Boston Public Library ]] . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County_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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_Oregon | in Oregon ]] [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5239076,-122.9876725,3a,15y,13.54h,90.64t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1siySpNIT7O4x1pKhekTkDWQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-0.6446057928989859%26panoid%3DiySpNIT7O4x1pKhekTkDWQ%26yaw%3D13.53677710301761!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | map ]] .p21-23 Colored Carnegie Libraries .p24 [[ https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C835244 | The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_A._Wiegand | Wiegand ]] 2018 .p26 [[ https://www.ala.org/tools/atoz/poor-andor-homeless-library-patrons | 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 | Willamsville ]] 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 troubled students, mental health, very needy .p43 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman%22 | Waiting for "Superman" documentary ]] .p43 after [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rhee | Michelle Rhee ]] resigned as school district chancellor .p43 [[ https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/publications/IMPACT_Report_RELEASE.pdf | IMPACT ]] teacher rating system .p47 2013 to [[ www.google.com/maps/place/Nanaimo,+BC,+Canada | Nanaimo ]] .p49 2015 [[ https://hydeaddisondc.org/ | Hyde-Addison Elementary School ]] in Georgetown DC .p49 [[ https://www.amandaripley.com/ | Amanda Ripley ]] [[ https://www.amandaripley.com/the-smartest-kids-in-the-world | The Smartest Kids in the World ]] .p51 elementary students who did not know what a lawn mower or horse's blinders are .p52 buddy reading, 4th graders enjoy reading to 2/3yo .p53 two half-time jobs at two public school libraries Hyde and [[ https://www.garrisonelementary.org/ | Garrison ]] 2.2 miles apart .p55 too many hours, gets job at [[ https://www.dclibrary.org/ | DC Public Library ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_One_Library | Northwest One ]] near [[ https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/119 | Walker-Jones ]] [[ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED581657.pdf | PK3 ]] to 8th grade school .p57 2018, 10 unit apartment building in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petworth_(Washington,_D.C.) | Petworth neighborhood ]] three miles norteinstitutionalization | h (17 min on Georgia Ave, 30-50 min transit ) .p59 Library 4500 square feet [[ https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/2019-July/015700.html | West Slope is 6000 sq ft ]] .p61 Panic button for DCPL Library Police .p62 300 sqft back office with storage, notice 4 days without an incident .p63 don't go to Adult Fiction alone .p64 bedbug in returned DVD .p72 [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6622258,-122.3753933,3a,90y,354.7h,99.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sLyqJQCfV3DoQXvbaAgmhtw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-9.178966282337711%26panoid%3DLyqJQCfV3DoQXvbaAgmhtw%26yaw%3D354.70493572703407!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | Edith Macefield house ]] in Ballard WA .p77 1898-1903 First DC Library in a house at 1326 New York Avenue NW (now 12 story building) .p77 first Carnegie library in Mount Vernon Square, now an [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9023101,-77.0229913,3a,89.3y,-0.92h,102.79t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1smaj2DgK-EnzolPqPU7Lk2g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-12.788347701220388%26panoid%3Dmaj2DgK-EnzolPqPU7Lk2g%26yaw%3D-0.9228436999781169!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | Apple Store ]] .p78 Central Branch DCPL now [[ https://www.dclibrary.org/plan-visit/martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-library | Martin Luther King Memorial Library ]], plus 25 neighborhood libraries .p79 Boss Frank, co-workers Chris and Darrion. .p81 Children's associate Jackie (mutual hostility), Kenleigh .p82 technicians Ms. Williams and Ms Olson .p82 Ms. Oliver driving with cell phone, another driver snatches and breaks it. She shouts Fuck You! and files police report. . [[ https://www.drivinglaws.org/resources/district-columbia-text-cell-phone-laws.html | I'm surprised she wasn't cited and fined, that's a $100 fine, fool ]] . If you want to talk to and from work, use transit, save money, and reduce pollution .p84 2019 DCPL 3,820,005 library visitors, 125 MLS librarians (and 415 other staff) 839,893 reference transactions . assuming 2000 hr/year, 540 people, that is one transaction per employee every 77 minutes, 4.5 visits per transaction . single transaction can be one question to dozens, a few seconds to much longer .p86 most regular patrons unhoused, many struggling . [[ https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/more-people-experiencing-homelessness-in-dc-data-shows/3344144/ | 4922 unhoused in 2023, some bussed there from Texas and Arizona ]], 0.7% of 678,972 residents . 6297 in Portland, 1.2% of 530,498 residents in 2023 .p90 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation | deinstitutionalization ]] .p91 [[ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/from-freud-to-fluoxetine/202212/still-dying-with-their-rights-on-50-years-later | dying with one's rights on ]], 20.5% of unhoused have serious mental health condition .p92 2 million mentally ill jailed annually, 4000 in prison solitary confinement .p92 [[ https://whosedowntown.wordpress.com/the-closing-of-the-franklin-school-shelter/ | Franklin School Shelter ]] closed in 2008, residents abandoned, .p94 in 2020 becomes a private language arts museum paying $10/yr for a 99 year lease .p95 2020 Point In Time Count, 6380 houseless, 91% black compared to 46% for DC residents .p96 DC 19.3% mentally ill, national average 18.3% . and so on .p110 Northwest assigned full-time, armed Library Police officer Jones .p111 [[ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BIPOC | BIPOC ]] .p112 Dallas crime rate fell to 50 year lows under police chief [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brown_(police_officer) | David Brown ]] .p117 Burning out [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue | compassion/empathy fatigue ]] .p121 diagnosed [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_disorder | complex PTSD ]] . "roots years deep that had grown outside the library" .p125 gave notice, left 6 weeks later August 25 2018, moved to Riverside CA .p138 cite [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=2&cn=3555205 | How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy ]] Jenny Odell 2019 .p142 post-Katrina FEMA rep "Libraries are not essential services" . actually, [[ https://www.libres-ejournal.info/528/ | half of Katrina-displaced used libraries ]] . "Stafford Act of 2010 recognizes libraries" . [[ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279531024_Library_as_Safe_Haven_Disaster_Planning_Response_and_Recovery | Library as Safe Haven ]] . [[ https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/chapter68&edition=prelim | one mention of library ]] .p144 (some) library workers trained to administer [[ https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/naloxone | Narcan ]] .p147 Jonathan Zittrain paraphrased: libraries more immune to link rot .p150 librarian burnout, many quit like Ms. Oliver .p153 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=4&cn=3474502 | The Library Book Susan Orlean ]] .p153-154 librarians murdered by "patrons" .p154 [[ https://bookriot.com/ | Book Riot ]] mostly fiction .p155 [[ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oliver-librarian-the-public-movie-20190419-story.html | working as a librarian give me post traumatic stress disorder symptoms ]] .p155 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/components/ajaxavailability.aspx?fp=1&level=local&morelink=0&pos=1&bibid=3600948%27) | 2018 Emilio Estevez film "The Public" ]] .p158 [[ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm143.pub2 | Multiphrenia ]] fragmented, conflicting values .p161 parents house two shelves of books below television: dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, Shakespeare .p168 [[ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/the-2010s-have-broken-our-sense-of-time | The 2010s broke our sense of time ]] .p169 [[ https://search.library.pdx.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9925059101853&context=L&vid=01ALLIANCE_PSU:PSU&lang=en&search_scope=PSU_ONLY&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,The%20Saturated%20Self&offset=0 | The Saturated Self ]] Gergen 1991 PSU BF697.G39 1991 .p180 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=Hope%20In%20the%20Dark&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=11 | Hope in the dark : untold histories, wild possibilities ]] Rebecca Solnit 2016