Shorter observations from the practitioner's notebook.
Libraries shouldn't be run like businesses. But a library leader who can't read a budget or spot the corporate playbook loses the fight for library values to whoever in the room can. Take the discipline. Refuse the values.
Two ways to gut a public library, the honest kind and the kind that calls itself efficiency. Libraries measure life events. Businesses count widgets. Here's what happens when you confuse the two, with receipts.
Seven years of library-worker reddit, read against 150 years of structural choices. The exit profile is a pattern, and the pattern has a history.
The thing that makes librarians irreplaceable is not what they know. It's what they decide you should encounter.