THE BIG ISSUE : 2nd September
Andrew Carnegie: the billionaire benefactor of Great Britain
(Sydenham Library, Lewisham) A petition was launched to keep it open, but it took local business owner Darren Taylor, who had already saved two other libraries in the area, to save it…..
http://www.bigissue.com/
Public Libraries News : 1st September
A postcard from the past about what the future might have been: Birmingham opens at last
A bumper edition of news today due to having to catch up with two weeks of news.
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Sunderland Echo : 2nd September
‘Hands off our libraries’ – campaigners march through Sunderland in fight against service cuts
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Sunderland Echo : 2nd September
Letter | Poor will lose out in library closures
As we are all now well aware, Sunderland City Council is planning to close nine libraries across the city to make £850,000 worth of budget cuts. What the council is not advertising is the fact that some of these libraries will be in the city’s most deprived areas …
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Spalding Today : 2nd September
Letter | Holbeach Library: Please answer these questions Mr Worthhttp://www.spaldingtoday.
This Is Lincolnshire : 2nd September
Alford | Library closure ‘would take heart out of community’
http://www.thisislincolnshire.
This Is Somerset : 2nd September
Bristol | Letter: Library change is not in their gift
http://www.thisissomerset.co.
Guardian Series : 2nd September
Sutton’s library opening hours cut in council cash-saving bid
http://www.guardian-series.co.
Guardian Series : 2nd September
Merton Council puts forward plans to extend library opening hours
http://www.guardian-series.co.