Keep pulse beating: an innovative training program to emulate--not kill.(editorial)(Public Urban Library Service Education program)

"WHAT'S A LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR TO THINK about PULSE (the Public Urban Library Service Education program) shutting down?" asks Gary Shaffer. "They'll think PULSE didn't work. It did."

Shaffer, now a public services librarian at the County of Los Angeles Public Library, should know. He rotated through three-month stints in children's, adult, and young adult librarianship, government affairs, and other areas, shadowing a supervising librarian in each, while pursuing his graduate library degree at Pratt Institute as a member of the first PULSE class at Brooklyn Public Library (BPL). The program was launched in 2004, developed by BPL's Jerome Myers to strengthen …