CONGRATULATIONS AND APPRECIATION
By Roy Stone

New Seniors - finally the fits and starts of the examination process are behind us, the list with all its goods and bads will be reset minus the promotions, interviews are complete, the start dates and assignments presented. Many stayed, many moved, most are happy and some are not...but we now move forward in a new phase of LAPL. More appointments than have ever been done at any one time for Seniors and Principals just a little while ago. So, the Librarians’ Guild offers wishes of success and good luck in all of the recent promotions, including former Guild members, the Division Librarians.

Appreciation is extended to everyone who served in the difficult months and years of filling an ‘acting’position. We know it was not the easiest position to hold and some of you had some seriously difficult branches to handle. But the vagaries of the City of Los Angeles’ promotional process doesn’t always end up the way we think it should, and this time, like every other time left some people who worked very had in the acting positions but were unable to be considered for promotion. There are some things that just don’t seem right, but didn’t our parents always tell us that ‘life isn’t fair’? So on behalf of the Librarians’ Guild we offer our appreciation for doing your part to keep a department or branch functioning for a long time under not so easy circumstances. What we were able to do was work with Management and Branch Library Services so that you could, at least, have a choice in your new assignment.