Agency Performance Oversight Hearing D.C. Public Library
February 21, 2012
On Wednesday, February 15, Councilmember Wells held an Agency Performance Oversight Hearing on the D.C. Public Library for Fiscal Years 2011-2012. Below are copies of the public and agency testimony, as well as related documents from the hearing (click the title to download each file):
Agency Testimony
- Ginnie Cooper, Chief Librarian
- John W. Hill, President, Board of Library
Public Testimony
- Nettie Briscoe, Patron, Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Edith Chase. Patron, Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Shawn M. Callaway, Patron, Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Dr. Aziza Baccouche. Patron, Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Zaid AI-Timimi, Adaptive Services Program Participant, and DCPL Patron
- Neal Gregory, President Friends of the Southeast Public Library
- Susan B. Haight, President West End Library Friends
- Vince Morris, President, Friends of the Northeast Public
- Dionne Y. Brown, ANC 8D07, President, Friends of the Bellevue Library
- Alice Levine, Friends of Tenley/Friendship Library
- Pleasant Mann, Recording Secretary, Friends of the Watha T. Daniel Branch Library
- Robin Diener, Director, DC Library Renaissance Project
Archived webcast: click here to view
Thanks, Barbara, for notice of this ctirale. I didn't know Library Issues was online and a chance to read full text, even with a time limit, is always lovely. The core of the ctirale was how libraries impact learning and research in a way that Google cannot. I looked through the references for a project I'm working on. The summary of online book sites was helpful. I'm going to find: Vannevar Bush. ecAs We May Think.ee Atlantic Monthly July 1945: 101-108.