Lucca State Library won't close for now, but the solution found doesn't satisfy

The State Library of Lucca will not close: the risk of the suspension of service, which the Lucca institution was facing due to large gaps in its staff (from April, in fact, the State Library, between retirements and lack of turnover, will find itself with only three employees, including the director), has been averted.

Reporting that a solution has been found is Andrea Marcucci, a Pd senator, who discussed the case with Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini. Marcucci downplays, “On the situation of the Library of Lucca, I would say a storm in a glass of water. I spoke with Minister Franceschini, who is personally following the matter.” He explains, “The solution has already been identified through the hiring of staff through the company Ales. Pending the finalization of the procedures, staff shortages will be filled with temporary contracts. The library of Lucca is an important cultural deposit for Tuscany, it also preserves many Pascoli papers, and it is a place very dear to me, also because I dealt with it at length during my tenure as undersecretary for cultural heritage. I therefore assure the government’s interest and exclude any hypothesis of downgrading.”

Marcucci went on to say, “I have however appreciated that thousands of people have mobilized by signing a petition, it is a sign of attention and participation, but I confirm that the library is in no danger.”

However, the solution found for the Lucca State Library case does not satisfy the grassroots, given that to solve the staff shortage, no extraordinary hires were made, but rather the use of MiBACT’s in-house company: taking a stand is the Mi Riconosci association, which refers to the words of Minister Franceschini himself, who, last Tuesday in the House, explained the need to “bring young professionalism within the public administration.” “Exactly in the same hours,” Mi Riconosci activists argue, “he was solving a problem through a company that exists only and only to avoid hiring in the public administration, so that he can more easily get rid of workers and have fewer rules. Let’s be clear, it is good that the library remains open, but we are sick and tired, time and time again, of seeing the level of services and the rights of the workers employed there drop, drop, drop. ’Eh, it’s this way or close”: NO. Competitions have been stuck for months and months because our political class does not have the courage to reform them, perhaps because it is convenient to opt for private solutions. We have the right and the duty to demand that the Lucca State Library and all public institutes remain open with new hires, not with investee companies of obscure function."

Lucca State Library won't close for now, but the solution found doesn't satisfy

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