Ipswich Star : 22 November
Suffolk Libraries face £230,000 budget cut as bosses call for more public support to save all 44 branches
Bury Free Press : 22 November
Fresh fears over future of libraries as Suffolk County Council budget cut proposals revealed

Maldon Standard : 22 November
Essex | Library to reduce opening hours – council calls on volunteers to help secure its future
Writtle library will be operating reduced hours from this Friday 25 November. The changes come following a decision by the Post Office to move their service elsewhere in the village.
The Star : 22 November
Chinese plan to turn Sheffield Central Library into five star hotel
View News : 22 November
Ottery St Mary | Developers’ boost to help with library move
Ottery Library to be relocated.  Libraries Unlimited and Ottery Town Council are funding most of the move, but the Friends of Ottery Library group were asked to make their own contribution towards the relocation and fitting out the new community information centre.

Libraries News Round-up: 4 February

Don't Privatise Libraries : 4th February Public Library usage stats down again, hmm I wonder why? http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/public-library-usage-stats-down-again.html THE GUARDIAN : 3rd February Letter | The local library helped me become a novelist …