Library big nearly blew stack

Beleaguered Brooklyn public library Executive Director Ginnie Cooper scheduled a lavish trip to a conference in Hong Kong and Singapore – before library trustees shot it down as an “imprudent” waste of taxpayer money, the Daily News has learned.
Cooper failed to ask library trustees permission before signing up for the week-long junket with three top staffers at a cost of $20,000 – prompting an angry letter from former board President Lucille Thomas.

March 13, 2006 by Librarians Libraries

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