Private Eye : 21st August
Issue No. 1373
Library News (p.30) | LIVERPOOL 
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THE INDEPENDENT : 20th August

What’s the point of paying for service if you then have to do the work yourself?
The service industry – the engine of the British economy – is turning into the non-service industry

public libraries cited 
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/whats-the-point-of-paying-for-service-if-you-then-have-to-do-the-work-yourself-9681674.html?origin=internalSearch

Includes comment by national library campaigner, Shirley Burnham 

Chronicle Live : 19th August
Newcastle Campaigners celebrating after High Heaton Library is saved from closure 
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/campaigners-celebrating-after-high-heaton-7639844


source : @DoreenSteinberg on Twitter
VIDEO | Luton Council shunned by electorate – ignored Wigmore Library petition
https://www.dropbox.com/s/52o0yf9o9ebw340/Luton%20Council%20shunned.wmv 


Library Journal : 21st August
Annoyed Librarian | Yet Another Bookless Library

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http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2014/08/21/yet-another-bookless-library/

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