Video Statement: I want to keep it local, diverse, and in Escondido not with some distant corporation
Click Here to see Sarah Springfield I want to keep it local, diverse and here is Escondido not some distant corporation
Video of entire UnWelcome Mat for LS&S at Escondido Library
A 70-ft long unwelcome mat was laid out today to let LS&S and Argosy Capital that we do not want them here. They are unwelcome in our city.Video of UnWelcome Mat for LS&S
Video Statement: I love my library. LS&S not welcome to come here.
Young people in agreement! Love my library 1 Love my library2 Love my library3, don’t want LS&S
Video Statement “LS&S there is not place and no room for you here in Escondido. Exactly!”
LS&S No Place and no room for you here
Video Statement: Need to protect our library from Sam Abed, City Manager
Life Long Resident Keep LIbrary out of clutches of Sam Abed, City Manager
Video Statement “This is a public library. It’s ours.”
This library is ours.
Video Statement: Student relies on this library, “I need this library to be successful”
I need this library to be successful
Video Statement: “LS&S we don’t want you, we don’t need you, leave us alone.”
Library volunteer says we don’t want or need you. Leave us alone
Photo of today’s UnWelcome Mat rally
Scathing report of LS&S performance in Oregon fuels opposition to outsourcing of Escondido library
Concrete evidence demonstrates LS&S poor choice for Escondido library operator Escondido, CA: Despite unanimous opposition from the Escondido Library Board of Trustees, Library Foundation, American Library Association, and in the face of overwhelming objection from the community, the Escondido City Council majority continues its path to execute a contract with Library System and Services (LS&S), a Maryland company, to take over operation of the Escondido library. However, LS&S’s competence has been brought into question in a report which surfaced recently….