BCPL Hires New Head of Technical Services

Russell Lorrie
The Braddock Times

BCPL Director Kelly Millis today announced the promotion of bookmobile driver Francesca Fanuci to the post of Head of Technical Services. "We are lucky to have an employee who works with such diligence and tenacity as Mrs. Fanuci. She is a role model for others and is a fine mother, friend, and worker."

Some have questioned the promotion of Mrs. Fanuci to such a high position within the library considering she has no formal training as a librarian and has only worked at BCPL for five months, and that in a volunteer capacity. As far as we can determine she has never even done any copy cataloging. Former employee Aaron Whitaker said, "It's hardly surprising. You have a high school dropout, registered sex offender as the head of the Children's Library, an old hag that gained most of her library experience in Mexico as the Library Operations Manager, a bunch of freaks in GRS who couldn't work their way out of a wet paper bag, a recently retired (for the tenth time) verbal dyslexic, a shock therapy victimized scam artist running the Texas Collection and a damn secretary running the IT end of the library. So to hire Francesca Fanuci, whose only claim to fame was getting in a fight in the break room with Mrs. Thehut back in June is par for the course for the wisdom of Ms. Millis (emphasis added).

Whitaker was not the only person questioning the decision. Library Board member and Braddock County Commissioner T. Diana Belle-Little simply shook her head when asked about the hire. Truman Marlin, a frequent patron said, "same old same old, just another old white woman." One current BCPL employee who asked to remain nameless said "This place is the worst run place I've ever heard of. It makes the sitcom The Office look well-managed. I don't even care anymore, I'm out of here soon anyway."