Oregon: Multnomah County Voters to Decide Fate of Proposed Permanent Library District
From The Oregonian:
“This is a once-in-several decades opportunity to get dedicated funding,” said Liz Kaufman, a longtime Portland political consultant and director of the current “Libraries Yes!” committee. “It’s finally a chance for people to tell us if they want this or not.”
With less than three weeks remaining before Election Day, Measure 26-143 has drawn scant organized opposition. The Cascade Policy Institute submitted a Voters Pamphlet statement against the measure but isn’t actively campaigning against it.
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“Libraries in general and this one in particular need to have a conversation about who their clients are, how to do business, and about how to reduce costs by contracting out various functions,” [Cascade Policy Institute President John] Charles said. “With them, this is a totally insider conversation. Any other ideas are completely blocked off.”
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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