Word: servicesal
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Thirty-one technical services staff members have penned an "Open Letter to the Harvard Community" in which they say that 60 to 100 of the library's 250 employees "are being forced by the University to vacate the building within the next year" and move to Harvard-owned offices in...
But in an e-mail message sent by Kline to library employees, she wrote that "an initial move is planned that is expected to include Widener Cataloguing Services and parts of End-Processing and Collection Development."
While Kline admits that the Central Square offices are not an ideal situation, she does not believe that the relocation of the offices to Central Square will disrupt services.
According to Donene Williams, treasurer of HUCTW, a union management committee that she chairs--known as the Technical Services Workgroup--already has been established to study the potential move's impact on workers and to negotiate with the administration.
"[The administration has] been talking about centralized technical services across College libraries," O'Brien said. "They're looking for ways to perhaps consolidate--which they are avoiding coming out and saying will result in job loss. We're very skeptical and afraid about that."