Sorry, guys. I forgot to include you all in my response to Aaron. Being on vacation fries your brain, I guess. Rodger Brayden Director, Forest Park Public Library 708-366-7171, Ext. 102 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rodger Brayden <rbrayden@fppl.org> Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [SWANboard] Tribune Article on Orland Increases To: Aaron Skog <aaron.skog@railslibraries.info> Can you spell "selfish?" Or would "self absorbed" be better? Actually, this sounds a lot like a library finding a dog to kick when things go badly. I would think Orland would have a better appreciation of the meaning of unjustified criticism than this article seems to indicate. On the practical note, I think a letter from a "big library" director like David would be very useful in counteracting the impression that only small libraries can benefit from being in a consortium. Rodger Brayden Director, Forest Park Public Library 708-366-7171, Ext. 102 On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Aaron Skog <aaron.skog@railslibraries.info

wrote:

SWAN Board:

In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in circulation.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-ci...

SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot resist that.

The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public library joining SWAN.

Aaron Skog SWAN Executive Director 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5122 Fax: 630.734.5056 aaron.skog@railslibraries.info http://support.swanlibraries.net