WATCH IT HERE! TLC’s LIBRARY PUBLICITY ZOOM SESSION
It was a good session - plenty of clever ideas from library Friends and users. We'll be taking them forward.We started with a presentation from Nick Poole, CEO of librarians'…
Library Campaign Zooms in on a publicity campaign for libraries
A big thank-you to members / representatives of Friends groups who made our first Zoom meeting on 14 April such a success. People attended from all over the country (as…
SWINDON: SPARKS FLY OVER THREAT TO LIBRARIES
Just in time for the local elections on 6 May… a row has erupted over the fate of two libraries in Swindon.A local library campaigner has decided to make the…
Library Campaign Zoom meeting 14 April 2021 Update
Our first Zoom meeting on 14 April was a success. People attended from all over the country. The feedback we've had chimes in with our own thoughts - people value…
Library Campaign Zoom meeting 14 April 2021: 19:30 -21:00
THE LIBRARY CAMPAIGN AND FRIENDS OF LIBRARIES - HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER? ZOOM MEETING WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL 2021 @ 19:30-21:00Libraries need Friends, in good times and in bad. Now…
JOIN THE DEBATE ON SATURDAY 27th
The Library Campaign will join other campaigners at 3pm to discuss the threat to our libraries... with particular reference to the LGBT+ community. See the image above for booking details.
THE LIBRARY CAMPAIGN URGES COUNCILS NOT TO SELF-SABOTAGE
The Library Campaign is urging local councils to set their budgets - without sabotaging their best post-pandemic asset. Despite dire financial problems, there is one cut no council should make... a…
LIBRARIES SAVED IN TOWER HAMLETS!
Saved - for now, anyway. That’s the great news from Tower Hamlets, east London, where a determined campaign led the council last week (4 March) to scrap its library cuts. There…
TELL YOUR MP NOW!
Apsana Begum, Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse (London) is rightlyalarmed at the drastic library cuts planned for her patch in TowerHamlets.She has set up an Early Day Motion on…
LUSH – Libraries Unleash Such Happiness conference 4 March.
The Library Campaign has no involvement with this event but it looks interesting. The organisers say: "Our inaugural conference welcomes representatives from Libraries Friends groups from all over the country.…
Webinar on digital exclusion of older people
The Connections for All webinar takes place on Monday, 1st February (11am). It brings together a panel of leading experts to discuss the need to keep millions of the UK’s oldest and…
THE GREAT LIBRARY PUBLICITY DISASTER
JAWS DROPPED recently when the BBC innocently announced a wonderful new scheme - to provide schoolkids with just ONE free e-book per week (the same book for everyone).Yet any child…
CROYDON: ZOOM MEETING THURSDAY 21st January 2021
FIVE Croydon libraries are under threat, again!If the proposed cuts are made, this will affect the whole library servicein Croydon - far fewer staff, loss of book stock, fewer places…
Tower Hamlets Zoom 19 January 2021
The Joint Unions (UNISON, GMB, UNITE) are holding an online meeting to discuss threats to libraries (known as Idea Stores) in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Their guest speakers…
FIVE Croydon libraries under threat… AGAIN!
Residents in Croydon love their libraries. The campaigns for individual libraries combined forces as Save Croydon Libraries campaign to fight the cuts more effectively in the past, and are already networking again. Friends…
GRIM STATISTICS – BUT HANG ON!
It’s that time of year again… the always-awful national statistics collected by CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy). And as always, people are weighing in with their interpretations.…
RISHI SAID ‘LIBRARIES’!
There was a twitter of excitement when Rishi Sunak tweeted the word ‘libraries’ in his spending review news. Give him credit. It is, we think, unprecedented for a Chancellor to…
TLC CALLS ON RISHI TO PAY WHAT’S OWED
Dear Rishi Sunak The Library Campaign is asking you to pay local councils what is owed them for vital lockdown services, such as public libraries. As Chancellor, your first responsibility…
Welcome to our new website.
You are looking at The Library Campaign’s new website, launched on Thursday 19 November. We welcome comments and suggestions about the site and its content - we cannot promise to…
Librarians rebuke government
CILIP has issued a sharp call to the government to get its information act together. It also has strong words about government attitudes to education, and to public libraries. CILIP…