Why Me?

I’ll never give up on my members!

Achievements

  • 1.     Planned and organized the bus trip and registration for the 2-day conference in June 2024 for non-librarian members

    2.     Advocated that members attend on library time

  • 1.     Organized and purchased all incentives for the last two years

    2.     Created the slogans - "Library Workers are the Best Thing in Libraries" & "A Cut to Library Services is a Cut to You!!"

  • Increased the conference stipend from $100 to $300 to assist Local 1930 attendees with their out-of-pocket conference expenses (of ALA, NYLA or PLA)

  • Added the holiday appreciation to the Annual Budget Resolution on the NYPL payroll period closest to Thanksgiving and Christmas that the Local will not collect any Union Dues from the Local 1930 Members

    All members will now receive this Appreciation Award. They do not have to travel to a location to receive a check

  • Advocated for higher salaries for the Senior Librarians working in MYLibrary NYC and LPA-Circulation and we got an increase

    1.   Salary upgrade for MyLibrary NYC Senior Librarians-Upgraded to Supervising Librarians/Specialist III-2022

    2.  LPA Circulation - Office Aide III/Office Associate I- Upgraded to Library Technical Assistant III & IV.-2023.

    1. Local 1930 and Urban Librarians Unite - Sunday, April 28, 2024 - Canvassed the Melrose Library neighbor - Location closed since May 2021

    2. Saturday, May 4, 2024 - Letter Writing Campaign with the People’s Plan

    3. Testified at City Hall March & May 2024

    4. All cuts restore and Baseline fund for 3 years - June 28, 2024

    5. Sunday Service restore. “Many of our members rely on this additional income on Sundays.”

Involvements

Current-Chair of the DC37-Black History Committee

Current-Member of the American Library Association (ALA)

Current-Member of the DC37 Remote Work and Pension Committees

Current-Member of (ALA (PLA) the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee

Former-Member of ALA Literacy Assembly

Where our focal point is to coordinate programming; and to develop and promote strategies for increased literacy activity within the Association.

Former-Treasurer of The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists-CBTU-NYC Chapter

Former-Chair of (ALA-EMIERT)-The Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round

Table in which the Coretta Scott King Book Awards was one of our standing committees.

Awards

Alliance of South Asian American Labor (ASAAL) - Labor to Neighbor Award (2022)

NYPL - The Bertha Franklin Feder Award - Outstanding Service in Librarianship (2015)

Parkchester Branch - NAACP - Award of Excellence - Service to the youth & Community (2015)

award of excellence

Deborah Allman, the president of the New York Public Library Guild, said the role libraries play within the city’s ecosystem should spare its officials from making its budgetary case every year. “I would like to see the library's budget baseline in the city's budget,” she said in a phone interview last week.

“Eventually, you can't keep not funding libraries and closing locations,” Allman said. “You can’t operate on fumes. I’m sorry, something has to give.”

Allman, a children’s librarian by training and former branch manager who has spent 36 years in the system, said thinning staff increasingly means that programming, including children’s story time and reading and writing tutoring, as well as English classes for newly arrived immigrants, is either being cut back or, when even a single librarian is absent, even canceled. 

“These are educational programs that we’re cutting,” she said. 

— KHAVKINE, RICHARD. “Cuts Could Trim Libraries’ Saturday Service.” The Chief, 8 May 2024,