Editorials

Librarians deserve better

Norah Foster
Saturday September 22, 2001

The Daily Planet received this letter addressed to Pres. Atkinson of the University of California and Chancellor Berdahl of UC Berkeley: 

Worsening recruitment and retention problems!!!! Our Librarian's office just reported a 37 percent turnover in library staff last year.  

Offering library assistants an atrociously small insulting 0.9 percent and no merits will cause EVEN MORE serious consequences and losses. UC knows staff salaries and merits have become a TOP priority, but do UC bargaining team??!  

 

Norah Foster 

Berkeley