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Chelsea Self / Post Independent A spate of recent resignations among branch managers and support staff within the Garfield County Public Library District has fingers pointed in lots of directions, including at the executive director. Functionally, it also has the district scrambling to fill several key positions as it works to rebound from pandemic restrictions and make good on promises contained in the voter-approved 2018 mill levy increase. Some staffers who resigned in recent months said they were prompted to go on record with concerns about internal library relations, namely with Executive Director Brett Lear, that they fear will ultimately impact library services. ....
Chelsea Self / Post Independent Garfield County’s libraries are asking for community feedback through a series of focus groups they’ll be conducting over Zoom. James Larson, the marketing and communications manager for the county’s libraries, said some might consider libraries an outdated resource, but they continue to be a place for education and information and want to be as accessible to the needs of community members as possible. “We are a center of knowledge, information, knowledge creation. We are here for everyone in the community. … It’s fairly obvious the (Latino) community is neglected in a lot of senses. With other government’s entities. We’re basically here to promote reading and education no matter what it takes to get a person there,” Larson said. ....