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Name: Desiree Goodwin on Jan 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Doug Pouliot on Jan 21, 2012Comments: Well articulated statement, by Desiree regarding Library staff restructuring. Reorganizing can work for employees as well as the bottom line. Implemented this kind of change can be a win/win for the staff and the academic community, done poorly, it is a missed opportunity to create good which can only have a negative impact on the end product, students and society.Flag
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Name: Benjamin Bridgman on Jan 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Thompson E. Potter, Jr. on Jan 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Karin Christensen on Jan 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Daniel Goodwin on Jan 21, 2012Comments: don't throw out the baby with the bathwaterFlag
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Name: Greg Hill on Jan 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark Hollinrake on Jan 22, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 22, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Jean M Bruce on Jan 22, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 22, 2012Comments: This is typical this university is doing this. I applaud your efforts. Good LuckFlag
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Name: Deborah Theodore on Jan 22, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Sergio Velazquez on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Summer Shafer on Jan 23, 2012Comments: My job is impossible without librarians!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 23, 2012Comments: I could not have gotten through grad. school without help from the academic librarians.Flag
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Name: Sam Heppell on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Esther Kingston-mann on Jan 23, 2012Comments: Firing people who were asked to help make a plan which was followed by eliminating their jobs --appalling!Flag
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Name: Melinda P. Dolan on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Geoff Carens, Union Rep, HUCTW [personal Capacity] on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Robert Hawthorne on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Rachel Sandalow-Ash on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anna Murphy on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Page Nelson on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Paulina Pina Garcia on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Giacomo Bagarella on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Umang Kumar on Jan 23, 2012Comments: I absolutely agree with the petition. Who gets to decide and impose "innovation"? Technology making people redundant? Harvard cannot be falling for this canard...I oppose any such layoffs!Flag
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Name: Philip Cartelli on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Keith Rosenthal on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Cris Martin on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Clio Griffin on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Bruce Johnston on Jan 23, 2012Comments: One would hope that a serious academic institution would not devalue library services in pursuit of a profitable bottom line.Flag
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Name: Michael Plank on Jan 23, 2012Comments: Wtf, HLS??Flag
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Name: Rachel Davidson on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Diana Arboleda on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Zach Hughes on Jan 23, 2012Comments: A library collection is only as good as the librarians who know it best.Flag
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Name: Qaren Quartey on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Nicandro Iannacci on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Mary Hopkins on Jan 23, 2012Comments: In addition to the above, many of us are union workers. These changes need to be *bargained.*Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 23, 2012Comments: This is ridiculous. Librarians and library staff are absolutely necessary.Flag
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Name: Philip Korsnes on Jan 23, 2012Comments: When I left Harvard College Library in 2010, Technical Services was just settling in and begin to achieve efficiencies after the previous reorganization & workforce reduction. Now they are to be wrenched around yet again?Flag
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Name: Aryt Alasti on Jan 23, 2012Comments: Long-term library staffers have informed me that the previous round of layoffs and early retirements eliminated invaluable competencies, with abrupt departures leaving remaining skeleton crews lacking opportunity for knowledge transfer and burdened with extra work in addition to original job responsibilities. It seems clear therefore that there cannot be a substantial "surplus" of job functions, and that instead cuts of personnel are - as has been the case with other categories of workers - an effort to extract the maximum possible expenditure of production from employees for minimal expenditure of funds, rather than it being primarily about enhancements and efficiencies. True regard for the well-being of Harvard's work-force as well as best service to its community would, in a number of areas of endeavor where there have been cuts, be taking advantage of improved financial circumstances since several years ago to focus on those considerations first, especially prior to there being additional tremendous allotments of money toward construction projects. In fact those crucial necessities should be made a signal part of Harvard's upcoming capital campaign, with funds being solicited for "endowed" staffing other than at the faculty level.Flag
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Name: Karen Narefsk on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Tara L. Hurt on Jan 23, 2012Comments: I support this cause and would be happy to help serve on the group helping to establish guidelines.Flag
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Name: Reecca Harbeson on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Gabriel Bayard on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: John on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Henseler on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: William P. Whitham on Jan 23, 2012Comments:Flag