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.
Public Libraries News : 5th March
Enterprising community libraries?
Senior figures such as the libraries minister Ed Vaizey, Direct of Libraries for Arts Council England Nicky Morgan and Miranda McKearney of the Reading Agency were in the room.
recommend you read Mick Fortune’s comment at foot of post
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SKY TV : 6th March
Sunderland Council To Set Spending Cuts Of £37m Targeting Museums And Libraries
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/
SKY TV : 6th March
Newcastle City Council Budget D-Day On £100M Cuts
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/
Local Guardian : 6th March
Croydon libraries left in limbo after John Laing takeover ‘shambles’
http://www.yourlocalguardian.
This Is Nottingham : 5th March
City’s mobile library service is almost at the end of the road
http://www.thisisnottingham.
This Is Lincolnshire : 6th March
Volunteers offer extended hours
http://www.thisislincolnshire.
South Wales Argus : 6th March
Two Newport libraries may be unstaffed
and info on the other libraries affected by cuts
http://www.southwalesargus.co.
This Is Nottingham : 6th March
A new chapter opens in life of West Bridgford library
2011 – Summary of the review of statutory duties placed on local government
“…. it is not the intention of the Government to remove the duties which protect such services.”
But it’s the “intention of the Government” to ignore and misrepresent them?
https://www.gov.uk/government/
Harrow Times : 6th March
Cllr Susan Hall calls for more to be done about library computers as Gayton Library loses 17 in one year
The lack of working computers in libraries “affects the poorest members of society” a senior councillor has claimed after it emerged one library has lost 17 of its 18 machines in the past year. Harrow Borough Council’s Conservative group leader Susan Hall said there needs to be more investment so that jobseekers who are too poor to afford a computer can access the internet.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/
