The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) are concerned that the EPA library reopenings will not return the libraries to the state they were before they were shut down.
Here are few of the concerns:
- The minds which plotted their closure remain in charge
- Most of the re-opened new libraries will be housed in less space and one, in Chicago (formerly the largest regional library), will re-open without permanent furniture and shelving
- Collections are broken up and disbursed in a fashion that they may never be reassembled
- Library acquisition and management decisions are done under a political appointee