Librarians blame rock-bottom salaries.
Lately, New York City's public librarians have been making a ruckus about job conditions. Still, no change. Now, so many of them have left their jobs that four Bronx branches had to stay shuttered one Saturday last month. At the Edenwald, Clason's Point, Jerome Park and Sedgwick branches, there simply wasn't enough staff to keep the doors open. The city won't permanently close any of these Bronx branches, said librarian union president Ray Markey of DC 37's Local 1930.