>> good evening, herrera, city librarian, we have a memo a packet that was presented to you today. i am going to keep my statement relatively brief. but to say that the library commission has followed section 70-60 of the sunshine ordinance which requires that any written summary provided by a speaker of no more than 150 words may be included in the minutes. the commission also has followed the good government guide and the city attorney has advised the policy bodies that because it is not part of the official minutes adopted by the body it may be included as an attachment or an aden um to the minutes and there is a city attorney stated june 4, 2011 as part of the packet that we provided for you. >> the library commissioners included the 150 word summaries submitted by mr. hartz as addendum and which each summary was commenting on. they are not separate attachments but follow the agenda items in the same document. despite this, the sunshine ordinance task force has filed willful failure to include the 150 summary in the body of the minutes. >> the library does not agree with the fi

there were three separate distinguished city librarians who were let go because they couldn't stomach is. the a civil grand jury found claims to induce the bond issue for the new main library constituted fraud. the citizens were told that the old library didn't have enough room for books and we ended up with less space for books than we had before. the new main library was designed to raise money for the friends [speaker not understood] found to be a disfunctional planning disaster. the friends were allowed to continue raising money without a renewal agreement from the city to prevent any public discussion or accountability for that crime. the branch library improvement program was only half finished when it was supposed to be complete to allow the friends more time to raise money for themselves. now the friends have provided to the library only a tiny sliver of the money that they actually raised. they are still protected from accountability. when members of the board of supervisors praise the people who rip us off, you are supporting a civic graph stretching kickback over several de

we have luis herrera, city librarian with us. mohammed naru who is the head of dpw.have joanne white, the fire chief is with us. and linda richardson, commissioner linda richardson is with us. let's welcome them, please. (applause) >> okay. we have greetings now in the program. i think we will go ahead and move forward with the greetings from the supervisors and we will then be followed by city administrator kelly will introduce the mayor upon the mayor's arrival. so, with that i'd like to ask supervisor cohen if you would come and extend greetings, please. >> thank you. amen, good morning, everyone. good afternoon. how are you? i have to say you look beautiful to look out and see so much red. this is an exciting time for all of us here in san francisco. and as i stand before you on this day, we celebrate black history month in san francisco. this is a day on which we acknowledge the being at the crossroads of equality and freedom. celebrating the emancipation proclamation as well as the march on washington, as well as the 100th birthday of our dear sister rosa parks

city supervisors, for this truly wonderful honor. i can't tell you how gratified i am at so many levels. as manager in children's librarian of the oceanview branch library, i work in the neighborhood that is largely invisible to the rest of the city. the oceanview neighborhood has a long history of being overlooked and under served. even going back to the 19th century, the community fought hard for just basic services and that struggle continue to this day. this is deeply engrained with optimism in the oceanview neighborhood, and that's the spirit that inspired me when i first arrived there two years ago. statistically, the oceanview branch library doesn't compare very well with other branches in the system. it's a very small library and it consistently lands at the bottom of the list when branch circulation statistics are published each month. but statistics don't tell the story of the oceanview branch library. books may not be checked out in the same numbers as at other branches, but the way the community uses the library is truly profound. a large proportion of the patrons who come into the library are dealing with ver

herrera's history starts right from the very beginning of this tenure as city librarian, when he set up a so-called technology and privacy advisory committee to look into the question of rfid, the advisebility of rfid installation which people thought was intended to justify it. there, there was initially, no inclusion at all of public comment in the committees meetings it was not strictly required by sunshine. eventually, the public got to comment last. if you look on the website there are no minutes of those meetings as the agendas were published and when the report was finally published, it was arranged that the final report had no mention whatsoever anywhere including in the table of contents that there was a whole section that they had intended to include with public comment and that is no mention there at all. there is a separate document which, of course is very easy not to find. this is a long-standing issue and we hope that you find in ray hartz's favor, thank you. >> questions, by the commissioners for either the complainant mr. hartz or the respondent mr. herrera? >> i hav

give special credit to the san francisco public library administration and most especially our city librarian louise herrera for the encouragement to think and act outside the box as librarians. mr. herrera initiated the gnpo leadership program standing for generation public library as we move forward into the 21st century. much of the knowledge i gained about the oceanview community comes through my participation on the oceanview gnpo team that spent a year conducting extensive research into the nature of the community. ~ luis and i would like to take this opportunity to especially thank my teammates on that team for their long hours dedicated to learning about the neighborhood in a way that i could never have done alone. they came up with many innovative ideas for how the branch can best serve the community. and although i've been singled out for recognition here today, which i again am truly grateful for, i represent just one instance of the amazing work and dedication of all the staff of the san francisco public library. the theme of this year's national library week is communities matter

francisco in the past and we are pleaded of our stellar placement in the city and county of san francisco which is the librarian and named librarian of the year so we are familiar with this area. we have done a lot of work in the day area. the lasted 28 years of our existence we have probably done half of the recruitments in northern california so we are familiar with the economy, some of the issues relative to re-location, some of the issues in terms of attracting the best kind of talent to work for san francisco cta. just briefly the first phase of our recruitment starts -- i guess it started last week when we met with staff to get a framework for the aggressive timeline that you set before us in terms of the outreach and selection and evaluation of candidates to talk about logistics, to talk about the steps in the search process, but in all honesty the search is divided into three phases. the first phase is what we call the getting to know you, and that is when we get a good understanding of the organization. we want to find out what the key core competencies are. we want to talk to as many stakeholder as yo

the city of new york will pay the occupy wall street movement and can their librarians $47,000 to settle a lawsuit over stolen and destroyed books. occupy wall street sued the city after about 3600 books were seized during an overnight raid in november of 2011. according to the lawsuit, the city returned only about a thousand books to the occupy library. the city will also cover lawyer fees for occupy wall street for this case. stay up-to-date on breaking news about authors, books and publishing by liking us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our web site, booktv.org, and click on news about books. >> up next on booktv, charlene meyers recounts the united nations search for a location for its headquarters from 1944 to 1946. [applause] >> thank you very much. thanks for coming, everyone. while we change the slides in the front, let me say thanks to all of you. those of us who write and do research are dependent on a vast network of support, and i want to express a public thanks to archivists, to historians, colleagues and friends and

the city of new york will pay the occupy wall street movement and librarian $47,000 to settle lawsuits over stolen and destroy books. and after 3600 books received in an overnight raid in 2011. according to the lawsuit the city returned only 1,000 books to the occupy library. and lawyer fees for occupy wall street. send the date on breaking news about authors, books and publishing by liking us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter at booktv. visit our web site, booktv.org and click on news about books. >> would like to think it is an important book in the sense it tells you how the court works. there are so few good books out there that explain the fraud says and how they go about this and how to decide these cases and what are they saying to one another? what are they really thinking? do their personal feelings get into it? also about how the board operates. >> when you dig into the notes in the library of congress, the memoranda, the notes back and forth, and a lot is available. >> i am not a lawyer. and whatever you guys do. i was fascinated by the human side of

the city of newark will pay the occupy wall street movement and their librarians $47,000 to settle a awsuit over stolen and destroyed books. occupy wall street sued the city after about 3600 books were seized during an overnight raid in november 2011. according to the lawsuit, the city returne return only about 0 books to the occupied library. the city will also cover lawyer fees for occupy wall street for this case. stay up-to-date on breaking news about authors, books and publishing by lighting us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. or follow us on twitter at booktv. .. and find it somewhat foreign. it's also written for the parents of other students as well. >> souvenir asked as a college professor, what will make my son or daughter successful, what is your short answer by >> my short answer is independence and responsibility and that's the thing parents may not want to your guess that means they have to pull back. when we get to my college, it's a chance for them to be responsible for what they need to do and that is the most part skill for that. >> what is your responsibility as

city of boston, the mayor's office. >> this school is central to the family's life. denise the mother is the school librarian >> jane, who is the wounded daughter is a first grader there. she'll be returning there as you told us, she's lost a leg. >> yeah. >> she'll be returning there in a very different situation. >> she will. but we expect she'll certainly return and the people who know this family best tell me jane will be back. she's an irish step dancer. she recently started it. it's her passion at the moment. they fully expect she'll be dancing again. it's the kind of girl she is and the kind of family she is. it's not going to stop. but, kevin andrews was very clear they need prayers right now, the school community. not only have they lost martin, but temporarily lost denise and the young jane. so, they will be back. >> bill, what do we know about henry, the oldest son he's 10 years old and the father, bill richard? do we know anything about what they are doing now? >> i think they are finding a degree of seclusion and asked for privacy. for the most part, that's been resprekted. certainly, we respect