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Hennepin Cataloger Calls Forced Transfer RetaliationSanford Berman, head cataloger at Hennepin County Library in Minnesota, told American Libraries that HCL Director Charles Brown and Human Resources Officer Tom O’Neil had informed him April 20 that he was being removed from his post and assigned to a “special project,” a transfer that he believes is “clearly retaliation” for speaking out against a reprimand he had received in February. In an April 19 news release, the library announced that it planned to produce a cataloging practices manual, “documenting the innovative cataloging processes that have made HCL a leader in the modernization of library subject headings,” and that Berman, “a nationally recognized expert in the elimination of biases, prejudices, and cultural insensitivity in library cataloging, will write the new manual and ready it for distribution.” Berman called the project “a cockamamy toilet-cleaning job” but he had no legal recourse, since the reassignment did not reduce his salary or grade. “The purpose is to produce humiliation and punishment,” Berman said he was advised by his lawyer, “leading ultimately to resignation.” Posted April 26, 1999. |
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