Summary
"This was the first step in the Aquarium-backed takeover of the museum," Esther Trosow wrote in a group e-mail. (The Aquarium is affiliated with, but separate from, the Packard Foundation.) "This is ominous if we want the library to remain a P.G. department and not be privatized."
PGPL Senior Librarian Lisa Maddalena says the library may apply for a Packard organizational improvement grant, which could help with short-term planning but not longterm operations. "We're just tossing it around," she says. "It certainly would not be an Aquarium takeover.""We cannot expect the same kind of quote-unquote 'takeover,' if you will, to even be feasible," she says. "This is our library; we gotta save it ourselves."See the full content of this document
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Packard Grove Library?
The Pacific Grove Public Library needs cash. Fast.
At a February brainstorming summit, 100-plus bookworms pooled ideas like bake sales, dance-offs and taxes from medical p...See the full content of this document
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