News notes of California libraries . reassigned to administra-tion. These, together with the Law Library and the Sutro Library, willbe the working units around which we will build for future viability. What I have described thus far are largely administrative and long-range tasks. But this is the time for all of us to reexamine, and reach foralternatives. (1) We need to improve internal coordination and cooper-ation among our bureaus and sections so that when the 1974-75 budgetis defended this fall, we can say with confidence and certainty that thethings we do to meet our objectives, once defi
News notes of California libraries . reassigned to administra-tion. These, together with the Law Library and the Sutro Library, willbe the working units around which we will build for future viability. What I have described thus far are largely administrative and long-range tasks. But this is the time for all of us to reexamine, and reach foralternatives. (1) We need to improve internal coordination and cooper-ation among our bureaus and sections so that when the 1974-75 budgetis defended this fall, we can say with confidence and certainty that thethings we do to meet our objectives, once defined, are necessary, andthat there is no better way to do them, given limitations in time, spaceand resources. (2) We will be developing, with your assistance, a set ofworkload indicators, hopefully only one for each work package,which will tell the story of increasing volumes of work in as straightfor-ward a manner as possible. In the meantime, Mrs. Crockett is working to persuade the Legisla- 308 NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES. Mrs. Percy ture to restore for 1973-74 some of the positions lost last year. We willalso be seeking new means of communicating with the decision-makers—including continuing contact with administrative and legislative staffpersonnel, and press releases. Its going to be a busy year, and I for one am looking forward toit—with optimism tempered only by awareness of the magnitude of theneeds we have. Volume 68, No. 2, Spring, 1973 309 John D. Amend Chief of Library Consultant Services One concern of the State Library is public library development, andit is primarily through the work of the Library Consultants, under thestrong leadership of the State Librarian, that this work is carried my view, the statewide library development goals of the CaliforniaState Library should be the same as those of the library profession inCalifornia. These goals should encompass the best thinking of libraryleaders throughout the state as well as show the strong,
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