October 17, 2021

California: San Diego City Auditor Says Public Library Needs Internal Controls Immediately

From the San Diego Union-Tribune:

The San Diego city library system lacks a set of rules and procedures governing such things as security, inventory, purchasing and revenue collection and should create those policies immediately, according to a letter from the city’s internal watchdog.

City Auditor Eduardo Luna, in a Dec. 2 letter, alerted the library staff that it lacked basic rules — known as “internal controls” — that are needed to assure the operation runs efficiently and lessens risks.

In response, Library Director Misty Jones said the staff will develop a plan to install the controls that Luna said are needed by July 2016.

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Luna said that library officials attributed the lack of policies and procedures to the management structure of the department, which ran the library system “by location, rather than function.”

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Direct to the Full Text Letter From City Auditor to SDPL Director (8 pages; PDF)

UPDATE San Diego Union-Tribune Publishes Editorial: “Library System Fixes Shouldn’t Take So Long”

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