Libraries News Round-up: 14th August 2013

This Is Bristol : 14th August Come and meet us Simon Cook invitation extended, to discuss concerns about Bristol Central Library
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Come-meet-Simon-Cook/story-19654159-detail/story.html

Daily Echo : 14th August Southampton |Plea to fund £1m new city library
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10611522.Plea_to_fund___1m_new_city_library/

Harrow UNISON : 13th August Press Release : Library Job Losses
http://www.iharrow.com/council/harrow-unison-press-release-re-library-job-losses/

Conservative Home : 13th August Privatising libraries is better than closing libraries
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2013/08/privatising-libraries-is-better-than-closing-libraries.html

Southport Visitor : 13th August Sefton | Rethink demanded on council’s decision to close area’s libraries
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2013/08/13/rethink-demanded-on-council-s-decision-to-close-area-s-libraries-101022-33718192/

Hackney Citizen : 13th August Hackney novelist Kerry Hudson warns children are ‘still slipping through net’ “The library was a bubble, outside didn’t exist.”  Hudson is adamant this  life-saving and simple means of self-education must be kept alive.
http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2013/08/13/kerry-hudson-interview/