LIBRARIES: Leadership is lacking
As a former Community Library Network employee, I watched the dissolution of the CIN with heartbreak but no surprise. This collapse was the inevitable result of poor leadership and political theater by CLN’s board and administration.
During my 19 months at CLN, I witnessed firsthand the institutional erosion that was a direct consequence of administrative dysfunction, including mass layoffs, disproportionately affecting disabled staff, under the interim director. Nearly an entire category of lower-classified staff was pushed out. Role consolidations and wage compression followed. When I sought clarification, I was met with reprimand and devaluation. Accountability and transparency were absent.
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