Company doesn't want to manage Gladstone library - Oregon Live - 13/06/13

http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2013/06/company_doesnt_want_to_manage.html

"Gladstone will not consider turning over management of the city library to a private company -- an issue that has polarized residents for months.
Library Systems and Services, which advertises its services as a way for municipalities to make their libraries more efficient, earlier this month declined to submit a bid to operate the library. A company representative said the potential savings and improvements were minimal and wouldn't justify their services."

Shock as LSSI turn down a library contract due to the lack of profit to be made, and i thought they where in it for the love of libraries!

Privatizing public libraries a bad idea - Editorial; Oregon, USA | The Gresham Outlook : 2nd November

http://www.theoutlookonline.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=132019418425840200

"In relationship to county libraries, we fear that privatization would only serve to heap new expenses on the very people least able to afford them.

One of the most attractive components of public libraries is the notion that everyone, from any social and economic strata, has equal and unrestricted access to books, periodicals, movies and online resources."

Thank goodness a voice in the wilderness!