Warren County library director resigns

When I read stories Like This One I’m glad I don’t work in a public library. A librarian had been offered work elsewhere before but declined because she didn’t want to leave her current library. That changed after the county manager sent her a Dec. 20 memorandum regarding “Conduct Unbecoming A County Employee.” It chided her for addressing spectators as the county board met in closed session at a Dec. 14 special meeting and ordered her to refrain from public comments on pain of suspension, demotion or dismissal for “personal conduct detrimental to county service.”

“She will be most difficult to replace,” said Charles Grady, who is chairman both of the county school board and the library trustees. “She has made it really a community library for everybody in the county, from pre-kindergarten to senior citizens. I just can’t say enough good things about her and I’m very sorry that she is leaving.”

February 1, 2007 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Kelly says:
    February 1, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    A Set Up
    The library director made a good move in resigning, given she had a better offer elsewhere at the same time at place with better resources and money.

    It’s obvious that the imperious letter of reprimand from her boss, Linda Jones, was setting her up to be fired by creating a paper trail, which, in this instance, as the article notes, Jones refused to remove or deal with when the library director’s attorney wrote Jones asking her to remove the letter from her personnel file.

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  2. mdoneil says:
    February 2, 2007 at 2:31 am

    Re:A Set Up
    I would have wipe….

    I would have used the letter for the same purpose as last year’s Sears catalog in the outhouse.

    Oh, and then given it back.

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