Leading Change
Positive Change at the Library
One of the most profound change efforts I have been a part of took place shortly after I completed my undergraduate degree. My town's local library was undergoing severe budget cuts due to some decidedly impecunious actions on the part of civic leaders, who essentially squandered away my town's budget (for their personal gain) so badly that many of its programs were being cut due to lack of funding. It did notmatter that those civic leaders were facing criminal charges and possibly impending civil charges. For the time being, the library was facing some drastic changes that would involve a reduction of hours and the loss of its two principle librarians, both of whom were immensely popular with the townspeople and as congenial and as helpful as anyone could want them to be.
When news of the impeding changes were published in the local newspaper, a small group of dedicated citizens and concerned community figures decided to meet in order to consider options that might help to preserve the library's hours and its staff. I volunteered my time and energy to partake in this initial meeting, as did many others, particularly due to the fact that the town's library had been constructed and opened only a couple of years prior and it would be such a shame to lose virtually everything we had just gained.
In order to produce a concerted change effort that could alleviate the undesirable fate of the library and its fulltime staff, one of the first orders of business that took place at that initial meeting was an examination of all of the knowledge that would be necessary to preserve the current library hours and librarians. From an empirical standpoint, then, it became necessary to start by gathering some basic knowledge of how much money was required to pay the salaries of the librarians, as well as how much money would be needed to preserve the current...
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