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.

Question Everything : 7th April
We will economise on the beaches
It also doesn’t bode well for other libraries that are currently being forced down this route.  How many will be Chalfonts and how many will be Walcots?

http://questioneverythingtheytellyou.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=10

Don’t Privatise Libraries : 7th April
Disney and Bookshops in Public Libraries; exciting or a conflict?
http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/disney-and-bookshops-in-public.html

Bracknell News : 7th April
Sunningdale Library to open on Sundays for trial period
http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/bracknell/articles/2013/04/07/88236-sunningdale-library-to-open-on-sundays-for-trial-period/

About My Area : 7th April
Milton Keynes | New Kingston Library Starts To Take Shape 
http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Buckinghamshire/Milton-Keynes/MK9/News/Local-News/245134-New-Kingston-Library-Starts-To-Take-Shape

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Libraries News Round-up: 12 February 2016

THE GUARDIAN : 12th February Letters : Joe Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool; Cllr Iain Malcolm Leader, South Tyneside council; Zoe Ainsworth-Grigg, Taunton, Somerset; and  Shareen Campbell Swindon, Wiltshire http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/12/hard-hit-northern-councils-hit-back-over-tory-slush-fund Sheffield Telegraph : 12th February Book loans drop by…

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