This regards the community concern over the Great Neck Main Library’s having had to discard so many books because of their dwarf sized shelves, which is a kind of shock when you enter the library, compared to the experience of entering it previously, in its original design.
And it concerns the fact that only the Board had the power to oversee and agree to the design of the interior.
And it concerns their very poor judgment in thinking that less shelving and shorter shelving units would be the answer.
And it is ONLY the Board who had the power to view, to communicate with the architects, to accept or not accept the architectural blueprints.
In light of their poor work, their lack of vision of insight, their poor handling of issuing information, I propose we nominate a new Board.
This one issue, expanding the library, took over two years of meetings with arguments over taxes and then suddenly in the middle of it, discarding the Main Library and opting to work on the New Hyde Park branch, a building we do not own.
We do own the Main Library building.
There was also much secrecy, never transparent, not only about the staff’s working without a contract, but about monies, etc., and informing us of where the issues were on a given date.
There was an outcry and finally they created a site on the internet so that the steps of the renovation would become more transparent and public.
I propose that we nominate a new board.
I am not the only one who has come up with that idea, but one of the past Letters to the Editor, also called for a new board.
I had cut out his letter, it was short and ended with the proposal for a new Board.
Because of the clutter on my desk, it has disappeared. I may not remember his name but I do remember his message.
And that is what this letter’s all about.
How about a new Board?
Perhaps there are readers reading this now who would love the opportunity of working for the community and the library.
When is the next library meeting?
We can respond through the Great Neck News ‘ Letters to the Editor,’ and at the next library meeting.
The meeting schedule will be posted in this new paper.
Muriel Weinstein
Great Neck
