When will the libraries open?

[Anonymous]

*****Elrich said another issue is that the county has not filled vacant positions for libraries and recreation over the last year, so it requires going through a hiring process. “I don’t have enough staff right now to open up all the libraries,” he said.*****

This is the part where Elrich "says" they are using these vacant positions to save money, or deploy to other areas temporarily. There is no reason that interviews could not have been ongoing via Zoom for both libraries and parks and rec. Everywhere else is doing it. But he knows MoCo residents really like their libraries.

So someone decided to save some $$$ and not interview and have librarians or other library staff work virtually or get work done in the physical libraries.

I can already tell librarians have pulled e-resources out of the subscription services to get ready for physical reopening, because I use these ebooks all the time now.

An, yes, I am a librarian (but not for MoCo) and I am used to interpreting administrative doublespeak no matter what the politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*****Elrich said another issue is that the county has not filled vacant positions for libraries and recreation over the last year, so it requires going through a hiring process. “I don’t have enough staff right now to open up all the libraries,” he said.*****

This is the part where Elrich "says" they are using these vacant positions to save money, or deploy to other areas temporarily. There is no reason that interviews could not have been ongoing via Zoom for both libraries and parks and rec. Everywhere else is doing it. But he knows MoCo residents really like their libraries.

So someone decided to save some $$$ and not interview and have librarians or other library staff work virtually or get work done in the physical libraries.

I can already tell librarians have pulled e-resources out of the subscription services to get ready for physical reopening, because I use these ebooks all the time now.

An, yes, I am a librarian (but not for MoCo) and I am used to interpreting administrative doublespeak no matter what the politics.

Yup. I interviewed w/MCPL in Feb 2020. They have a pool of people who’ve been interviewed and reference checked. They’re just not hiring to save money. And in the meantime, they’ll lose candidates to DC and Arlington, who are hiring, and they will have to start over.