Grass Roots: Madison library director finalists to appear Wednesday; the public is sort of welcome. (Capital Times, 5/29/2012)
Excerpt: There’s a meet-and-greet scheduled Wednesday for the two final candidates to replace retired Barbara Dimick as the director of the Madison Public Library, but at least one board member would prefer that the general library-card-carrying public not be greatly involved in this particular meeting.
“Technically, it’s a public meeting, but I’m not encouraging the public to attend,” Ald. Larry Palm tells me. “If there are hundreds of people there, no one will be able to talk with anyone.”
What’s more, the integrity of the hiring process needs to be protected by preventing anyone from lobbing an inappropriate question at a candidate (think sexism and the like), jeopardizing its legality, says Palm, who is chairman of the library board's personnel committee.
The session at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Olbrich Botanical Gardens Atrium, 3330 Atwood Ave., will start with an opportunity for “selected members of the library community” to meet and chat with job candidates Gregory Mickells and Joellen Risacher.
Related post:
Meet the two finalists for Madison Public Library Director. (5/23/2012)
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