Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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reflective middle classes: libraries and librarians. 26 ^ p. From the unpublished book: A Pocket Italy. Essay on the smallness of the shrewd officials. 2001.

Sometimes, when I can not sleep
, I think, 'My God, thou hast given
huge forests, boundless lands,
horizons as far as the eye
us who live here should be giants ".
(A. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard)


Libraries
paintings of the human spirit, but sacristans
who work in are as elusive as the animulae
lemurs of ancient Rome.
(anonymous)


Library
In all complain and criticize, but they are not many who have reason to criticize.

The administrative confusion is caused primarily by the fragmentation of decision-making centers, scattered among the Director, unions, bureaucrats and politicians Romans. It follows that decisions are taken in a tortuous and have not (as they should be) the sole purpose of making the library work fine.
But it's been going on for some years a process of further fragmentation, because many activities are carried out by library staff of outside companies who work under contract. The justification of the government and trade unions, this would make it less expensive to the overall activity of the institute, is a modernist explanation that has a value purely technical grounds.
If dysfunction of the Library are confronted only with technical solutions, will soon emerge even more serious disorders.
First of all, the contract amounts to a complete surrender to run the institution with its own staff. Moreover, what seems to me that the most serious consequence, a large library that works with employees of various firms outside ceases to have its own history and identity. Each group of employees will be tied only to the short external segment of the work assigned to him, there will be no transfers, exchanges of personnel from office to office, will be increasingly difficult have a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe library, which is not a factory for cars or refrigerators, which already suffers a lot for the spontaneous fractionation of the archipelago's natural and organic structure.

Other causes of inefficiency are inadequate personality of the directors and the general incompetence of the officials (the unions wanted to promotion of mass) and, finally, a personal-together, that the direction of the library has no means of administrative and legal framework for vigorously and to govern. Or to put it better: it would, for this purpose, any means, but weak, always used very little and now completely obsolete. If you want to use it today, it would certainly be blocked by the unions that by Roman authorities.

When someone accuses me of being overly pessimistic, say that the reality is worse and more black as I have described and to be able to tell that I had lit up a little.
The "real" reality is a tangle irraccontabile and indecipherable, as can be seen, for example, the model of prose that I report below.

"work across the board in general stores: daily discomfort and operational enhancement.
Foreword.
for ongoing work in the library tower has not been used so far to those involutions of operational procedures which often become de facto the possibility needs to stick to unavoidable operational fees up to implement the closure of public services, then in contrast with the full and complete realization of the purposes the Administration intends to pursue.
The modal horizon was anchored to a structure is absolutely necessary that meets and tries to combine the basic needs of productivity, technological change and structural and efficiency [...]"

Each element operating in the field of library bears its contribution to the general confusion and inefficiency. Each of them, yes, some reason to criticize the other elements, but then everyone finds their own convenience in the general organizational chaos and the reversal of values: a number, satisfaction and benefit, with the remaining, at least peace and security. Moreover
enough to think about this: if a school is a serious study, if the recruitment competitions were really selective, if the work organization was rational and transparent, and not rubbery, family and accommodation beyond all limits (like a sponge capable to absorb even rubble), many people who now occupy positions of responsibility with self-importance would have remained behind to carry out small tasks for which only show attitude.
How could, therefore, these people sincerely criticize the waves of confusion and disorder that have "democratically" brought in high?

Several years after leaving the post of director, Emanuele Casamassima, leaving the Institute in a late autumn afternoon, he met a former employee of his era.
"Jovial, tell me a bit ', but what happened to the library?
''"What happened as a professor?
'''E' as if he had more soul. "
Jovial was first surprised, then, as soon as he understood the feeling of Casamassima said emotion:
"But professor, today is not as it once was: now no longer works with love." Jovial

Salvatore, Palermo, youth officer in the Navy, who had to leave because she suffered from seasickness, he was a man of extraordinary generosity and great physical courage.
Once a worker who worked in the cabin of the counters in general Library took an electric shock that threw him to the ground unconscious and had a power outage in the entire institution. No one dared to enter the cabin to see what had happened. Jovial only had the courage to do so. He found groping the man's body and dragged him out by holding the shoulders raised.

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