A $188,000 pension for a librarian? Sign me up (“Library Retirees’ Serious Ca-ssh,” Feb. 23).

I’ve got a library card. I’ll bob my hair, rummage around for grandma’s pumps and one of her frocks and I’ll let my glasses slip down my nose.

Oh, and I can “Shhh” with the best of them. When do I start?

Denis Ahearn

Port Chester

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Before someone can even be called a librarian, he or she must spend years in college, including time earning a master’s degree in library and information sciences.

Decades of hard work with a menial salary for helping educate the populace and preserve the written word usually goes under-appreciated, so much so that librarians can find themselves on the streets due to budget cuts.

Library services and librarians always seem one of the first things to go in hard economic times – odd, considering libraries actually see an increase in visitors in the lean years.

The NYPL, which finds it necessary to pay out pensions to librarians who proudly served the NYC population, should be commended, not chastised. And so should the librarians who deservedly receive these pensions.

C. de Groot

Manhattan