One Library item

The following appears on the agenda for Thursday:

gb #3-202  -   Ms. Novick/Mr. O'Connell                         (June 11, 2013)   Request the administration and the administration of the Worcester Public Library report on the proposed “One Library” system regarding (but not limited to) the following:  the process and criteria used to rank and select possible sites how the growing enrollment of the Worcester Public Schools will be handled in light of the space restrictions who will hire the librarians, to whom they will answer, whose hiring requirements and certifications will be met, and how these librarians will be evaluated whether and to what extent the librarians will be part of the faculty of the school, teaching students research skills, attending faculty and curriculum meetings, and integrating curriculum into the library whether libraries will be open to the public before, during, or after school hours, or outside of the school year who will maintain and clean the library space which entity will pay for utilities and other associated costs of the library space how such space will be secured to the rest of the school building, and who will have and control access to the rest of the building what the budgetary impact will be on the Worcester Public Schools, both in terms of dollars and in terms of state spending requirements what the budgetary impact will be on the Worcester Public Library, both in terms of dollars and in terms of state spending requirements what impact, if any, such use of space will have on the reimbursement of projects by the Massachusetts School Building Authority who will have ownership of current school library resources, including books owned by the school libraries, and whether and to what extent any school library resources be available for interlibrary loan (within or outside Worcester) what access to the library students will have during mandated state testing, given both space restraints and the state regulation requiring only school employees be in a school building during state testing how any dissolution of these proposed libraries will be handled vis-a-vis the Worcester Public Schools