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Study Clears Library of Discrimination ChargesA study of the recruitment and promotion practices of the LeRoy Collins Leon County (Fla.) Public Library has failed to substantiate charges that the library engaged in racial discrimination. Released December 12 at a county commissioners retreat, the study showed that 22% of senior managers and 24% of new library hires last year were minorities. About one-fourth of Leon County's population is African American. The investigation was ordered by a county commissioner in response to community activist Musa Jugger, who said in the December 13 Tallahassee Democrat that the study was invalid because it was done "in-house." He was backed in his charges by a library administrative assistant who had been fired for falsifying records about her jury service. Brenda Trimble, the county's director of support services, oversaw the study and said "the statistics bear out that there doesn't seem to be a problem at the library." Posted January 5, 1998. |
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