A digest of today’s news items, reproduced here, with kind permission from Shirley Burnham, who collated it.  For up to date libraries news follow @ShirleyBurnham on Twitter.

FT | Interactive ‘Austerity’ Map
useful for all campaigns
http://ig.ft.com/austerity-map/?gss=E06000050

Don’t Privatise Libraries : 29th April
A tale of two libraries
A first-hand account of Alan Wylie’s visit to two North London public libraries.
http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-tale-of-two-libraries.html

THE BOOKSELLER : 26th April
Nottingham | Bloomsbury supports city-wide reading scheme
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-supports-city-wide-reading-scheme.html

books

Libraries News Round-up: 8 March 2018

ITV News: 8 March Somerset | Schoolchildren join the campaign to save local libraries http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2018-03-08/schoolchildren-join-the-campaign-to-save-local-libraries/ Chard & Ilminster News: 8 March Somerset | Anger over MP's silence on libraries at…