I don't know what's wrong with library leadership these days. I mean, I don't know what's wrong with most leaders these days--no one seems to care about their workers anywhere. In California, Sonoma County Library is making their staff work in Evacuation Warning Zones--do they

not have dictionaries where they can look up the meaning of "evacuation"? It means LEAVE. It means it is UNSAFE. And if staff choose to prioritize their lives over going to work in an Evacuation Warning Zone where the air quality is deadly, they need to use PTO. Not only are they

trying to survive a pandemic, they now have a major natural disaster to contend with, and their leadership is failing them at every turn. Y'all: libraries are IMPORTANT. But they are not ESSENTIAL. Do not send your workers into literal FIRE to get to work. Are you mad? Good:

Contact their leadership and ask them why they think it's reasonable to force their employees to risk their lives for no good reason: Ann Hammond / [email protected], /Sarah Vantreese / [email protected] / Lana Adlawan / [email protected]

All library workers need to help each other when sh/t like this hits the fan. Library staff are afraid to push back themselves because they need to work and live. But if we let this stuff slide at other libraries, it becomes normalized and it is just a matter of time until we

are the ones who need help. So please, if you have the time and wherewithal, contact this library and advocate for their staff, who can't always effectively advocate for themselves. http://sonomalibrary.org/administration  @librarydefend