We privately expressed our concern when we first heard that the County Commissioners were considering engaging a local business consultant without any experience in the field to generate a plan for the future of our county libraries.
Why would the commissioners not have reached out to firms that specialize in, have a decade or more of hands-on experience with a variety of circumstances, and who are fully cognizant of the nation’s best library systems?
We cannot speak to the competency of E4 Strategic Consultancy, but we invite readers to read the proposal they submitted to determine their qualifications for this assignment.
It is hardly a good business practice to hire someone to hire someone to perform a task.
To us, their engagement smacks of ‘Lancaster exceptionalism’, a sense that countians know all that there needs to be known and we cannot benefit from advice from outsiders.
