At-large City Councilor Steve Murphy predicts the items we know about that are missing from the BPL are only "the mere tip of the iceberg" and is calling on all of the library's trustees to follow President Amy Ryan and submit their resignations immediately.
"In the coming days as the investigation continues, I suspect that we will find many other items have disappeared," Murphy said in a statement. Murphy, chair of the council's public-safety committee, had scheduled a hearing on BPL security for next Monday even before Ryan announced her resignation, mere hours after library trustees had voiced their confidence in her.
"It is imperative that the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Jeff Rudman and the other current board members follow President Ryan's lead and step down immediately, so that Mayor Walsh can move forward and appoint new leadership to guide the BPL through this crisis," he said.
The committee hearing begins at 11 a.m. on Monday in the council's fifth-floor chambers in City Hall.
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"Now misfiling is not a good thing."
By Belmont
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 5:35pm
Really? Get out! Would you say it's a POSSIBLE thing? Is it the WORST thing that's EVER happened? Yes, yes, YES. Time to replace these incompetent filers with androids. They won't need to eat or take bathroom breaks or need vacations or 401K plans. OTOH, Byron, perhaps you have a better solution.
Can't WAIT to hear it.
Guys
By Michael
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 3:57pm
They found the artworks
"Library officials said the Durer and Rembrandt were found in Row 14B, Bay 3 on Shelf 2, approximately 80 feet from where they should have been filed."
Good Heavens
By Sources Say
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:15pm
Sounds like complete incompetence is the standard for working at the BPL.
If that's the case
By MostlyHarmless
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:26pm
Then it is also the standard for working at Harvard, or the Bibliothèque Nationale, or the British Library, or the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, or...
I know this is super shocking to the uninitiated, but this happens a lot, everywhere.
Just Because
By Sources Say
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:34pm
It happens a lot, everywhere, does not make it OK. $630,000 should not be misfiled, missing and unreported for nearly a year. Something is definitely broken somewhere in the BPL if that is the acceptable norm.
Actually
By MostlyHarmless
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:43pm
Happening a lot everywhere does make it OK.
There is one solution to the problem of human error here. We could take several million dollars of taxpayer money and upgrade to a robotic storage and retrieval system like they just installed at UChicago. This would probably involve laying off a lot of staff and closing several branches.
YMMV.
just management
By JDC
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 8:41pm
that is
The Hidden Secrets in Albrecht Durer's Art and Life
By theszak
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 5:51pm
Elizabeth A. Garner
The Hidden Secrets in Albrecht Durer's Art and Life
http://www.albrechtdurerblog.com/durer-audit-hooey...
Crimes in the Art, The Secret Cipher of Albrecht Durer
http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Art-Secret-Cipher-Alb...
Murphy is right
By sistercate
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:34pm
The stolen / misplaced items are the tip of a huge mess. The branches are filthy, understaffed and too often staffed with apathetic employees - beaten down by "Downtown". The main branch cannot give a true accounting of its items. And, most are stored, never to see the light of day. Time for a change.
Storage
By Colin.
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 8:13pm
Yeah, of course most are stored. Go to almost any library or museum and you'll see the same thing. With the Gardner being a notable exception, most cultural institutions have vast collections that they draw on to put on exhibitions. This is the way these places work. Very few museums and libraries know absolutely everything they have. Most get tons of donations and very little funding. Donors would rather have their name on a new bench or children's section than up funding for special collections processing and cataloguing.
Public library leadership.
By theszak
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:45pm
Massachusetts Public LIbraries' leadership need leaders who would look for better resources for front line staffs & thus for library users. Safety and security begin with the people developing greater loyalty to our public library
Massachusetts Friends of Libraries
http://mblc.state.ma.us/advisory/trustees/index.php
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
http://mblc.state.ma.us/
Online forums
http://mblc.state.ma.us/mblc/lists/index.php
BPL vs. the Olympics
By Belmont
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 5:31pm
Imagine investing a very small amount of $ (relatively speaking) into the BPL system instead of the Shirley Leung Olympics. This investment would actually be serving the public for decades to follow.
Boston Public Library
By GROVER
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 7:03pm
Steve Murphy continues to demonstrate his IQ.
Stenographic Record of yesterday's City Council Public Meeting
By theszak
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 8:06pm
Stenographic Record of yesterday's Public Meeting of Boston City Council Wednesday, June 3, 2015
http://anopenbostoncitycouncil.blogspot.com/
see also Notes by Michelle Wu
http://michelleforboston.com/notes/
video
https://www.youtube.com/user/BostonCityCouncil/videos
Agendas, Minutes
http://www.cityofboston.gov/cityclerk/citycouncil/...
Obvious power grab....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 9:27pm
... by folks who obviously can't run anything competently. I wish that Boston had a recall provision.
dissatisfied and wishes we had recall powers
By Anonymous
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 9:52pm
I'm interested in hearing you out. If you have the time and the interest, make the argument and I'll give you my feedback.
Not sure why...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 9:56pm
...I need to make up a detailed list of things I find unsatisfactory about Walsh's performance for your sake. I gave one example already -- and you blew it off as insignificant (or so it seems to me).
I didn't realize you were
By Anonymous
Thu, 06/04/2015 - 10:51pm
I didn't realize you were soliciting my opinion on the long island bridge. I responded above.
Boston Public Library Board
By theszak
Fri, 06/05/2015 - 2:57am
Boston Public Library Board
http://www.bpl.org/general/trustees/trustees.htm
Jeffrey B. Rudman, Chairman of the Board
Evelyn Arana-Ortiz, Vice Chairman of the Board
Board Members
Zamawa Arenas
Laura DeBonis
Carol Fulp
John T. Hailer
Paul A. La Camera
Dennis Lehane
Byron Rushing
Jeffrey B. Rudman is a senior partner at the Boston law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and the former co-chair of their Securities Litigation and Enforcement Department. He is a nationally recognized authority on defending shareholder class actions and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations. Mr. Rudman lectures on shareholder litigation and corporate governance for such organizations as American International Group, NASDAQ and the National Investor Relations Institute, among others. He has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Rudman is dedicated to supporting the community and has served many charitable institutions. During the 1990s, Mr. Rudman served as a director of the Boston Public Library Foundation and helped lead the effort to restore the McKim Building. He is a former member of the board of the Boston Museum Project and served for many years as the secretary of the New England Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. Mr. Rudman is a past member of the Community Advisory Board at WGBH and former trustee of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. He presently belongs to the St. Botolph Club.
A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, where he won the Ames Moot Court Competition, Mr. Rudman spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, taking a First in the Honours School of Modern History.
Mr. Rudman is a resident of Charlestown where, together with his wife and two sons, he has lived for more than two decades.
Evelyn Arana-Ortiz is a Senior Healthcare IT Leader with 20+ years of healthcare domestic and international experience, who has demonstrated the ability to improve business operations by increasing customer satisfaction and exceeding financial targets. She is an exceptional leader earning numerous company awards for outstanding performance managing highly complex practice management implementations for large medical groups and academic medical practices.
Mrs. Arana-Ortiz is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, currently working at GE Healthcare. She is very committed to serve the community and has served at various non-profit organizations; she currently chairs the BPL Finance and Audit Committee and the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund Advisory Committee.
[ more... ]
http://www.bpl.org/general/trustees/trustees.htm
Steve Murphy
By UncleRobot
Fri, 06/05/2015 - 9:47am
Steve is a blowhard who does nothing and has been on the City Council way too long.
Any time we're tired of him...
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 06/05/2015 - 3:22pm
Any time we're tired of him, we're free to vote him out. Obviously we (for the collective value of 'we') are satisfied with the job he's doing, and so we re-elect him.
Thanks Bob
By Waquiot
Fri, 06/05/2015 - 3:39pm
It always gets me when people drone on about how we need to vote so-and-so out of office, but come election time I dunno, the same people are busy that day.
By the way, I can proudly say that I have not voted for Murphy each time he has appeared on my ballot since 1992. Sometimes he seems smart, so I consider ending my ban, but then he does something like this and reminds me of why the streak is still active.
All five voting members of our household...
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 06/05/2015 - 3:49pm
... vote in every election. I don't _think_ anyone voted for the tiresome Mr. Murphy last time around.
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