National library director refuses order to fire staff

By Stefan Lundberg and Jan Petter Myklebust. "I had a list of whom to fire in my drawer and I had attended a course in how to handle mass firing of staff. But I decided: I will not do it – I will not fire my staff – whatever happens to me," Kai Ekholm, Finnish chief librarian and director of the National Library of Finland, said to the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet last month. More...