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What city of Boston Public Library department needs are more
librarians who comply with state and local public records freedom
of information regulations and open meeting sunshine laws.
Our urban public library's long range planning, design and development
reports and other related reports are concealed from review even when
the reports are validly public by librarians who inhibit disclosure by
their complicity.
Public review is inhibited by keeping at arms reach our public
library's most interested users, who are dismissed or diverted
by librarians lacking in a sense about how to render more user
friendly customer services.
Therefore public input into long range planning, design and
development for city of Boston Public Library department
is minimal.
In the matter of disclosing city of Boston Public Library department
validly public urban public library long range planning, design and
development reports and other related reports our city of Boston
Public Library department has not complied with state and local public
records freedom of information regulations nor open meeting sunshine
law.
Responsible for our municipal public library department are BPL
president B. Margolis, BPL board chairman W. Taylor who is publisher
of the Boston Globe daily newspaper and mayor T. Menino.
From the birth of our nation, open and uninhibited access to public
information has ensured good government and a free society.
Public information helps to educate our people, stimulate our progress
and solve our most complex economic, scientific and social
problems.
We assert that public information is information owned by the people,
held in trust by their government, and should be available to the
people except where restricted by law.
The Public Has the Right of Access to Public Information. Government
agencies should guarantee open, timely and uninhibited access to
public information except where restricted by law. People should be
able to access public information, regardless of its format, without
any special training or expertise.
By maintaining public information in the face of changing times and
technologies, government agencies assure the government's
accountability and the accessibility of the government's business to
the public.
Have some of you folks any interest in fighting censorship by the very
people charged with responsibility for making community information
available about long range planning, design and development for our
public library?
Applicants recruited for our urban public library need
better experience with public records freedom of information
and open meeting sunshine principles of open government.
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