Activist Toolkit

[Sarah Glavin has not submitted answers to the Activist Toolkit questionnaire.]

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1. What motivates you to seek this office? What skills, experiences, and perspectives would you bring to the Village, and why would those contributions be valuable in the role of Library Board Trustee?

2. What are the three biggest challenges or opportunities you expect the Library to face in the coming years, and how would you work with your colleagues to address these challenges or realize these opportunities?

3. How will you balance competing interests, such as your own deeply-held values and opinions, input from Library staff and fellow board members, and diverse views from the community? How would you describe your leadership style and your decision-making process generally?

4. What values would you bring to the budgeting process? What changes do you favor in the process by which the Library conducts its budgeting and fiscal planning?

5. How will you balance the community's desire to decrease the property tax burden with the Library’s mission of sharing information, services, and opportunities, and the need to maintain facilities?

6. How do you define equity? Have recent discussions in the larger community informed or changed your thinking?

7. How do you plan to solicit feedback from people who may be experiencing Oak Park’s libraries in a different way than you? What barriers do you believe may exist in this process?

8. How will you collaborate with neighboring communities? Discuss a specific initiative you would wish to undertake. What benefits and challenges would you anticipate?

9. In recent years, the Library has replaced security guards with social workers, increased salaries for its lower waged workers, and eliminated late fees for borrowers. Do you believe these initiatives have been successful? Why or why not? Are there ways in which you would anticipate expanding or rolling back this work?

10. What lessons learned from the services provided or not provided during the pandemic do you believe will be applicable going forward, even after the pandemic abates?

11. In an era of radical changes to how people find and consume information, what should and shouldn’t change about the services provided by the Library?

12. How do you feel services and supports for homeless patrons fit within the mission of the Library?