On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Walter Lewis wrote: > I should note that while the standard librarian-hunting seasons overlap > for public and academic librarians, there is a special "sitting duck" > hunt that co-incides with the municipal budgeting process. In some > communities, like ours, it is actually televised (think the worst > bass-fishing show you've ever flipped past). You know -- there might be municipal officials on this mailing list. http://www.gazette.net/stories/01072010/laurnew154426_32560.php -Joe ps. If you think watching it's bad -- imagine if you have to do hours upon hours of research ahead of time *and* have to go to the meetings.