- December 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
I appreciate the recent efforts of the Friends of the Library to address the “leadership crisis” at the Anchorage Municipal Library, which has been operating for some months without a qualified director.
Unfortunately, this crisis has been deliberately engineered by a mayor who is not being honest in his assurances that he is “committed to a vital library system in our community.”
On the contrary, the mayor is apparently working hard to establish unilateral control over the library for ideological and political reasons, an effort that is antithetical to the goal of a competent, socially responsible, apolitical library system.
The leadership crisis is not the absence of a library director or a “strategic vision.” The immediate crisis is the continuing presence and authority of Judy Norton Eledge, who Bronson tried to hire as library…
