I have worked in public libraries and I am not sorry to have left that type of environment. The ALA has done all they can to destroy the working environment of libraries. As far as the increase in salaries go. Their idea of fighting for better salaries is to offer cookies that are baked to look like there is a bite out of them to symbolize the poor salaries at libraries. It is ironic that the people most able to change the salary scale (library directors and management) play victim when it comes to putting their names on the line.