THE INDEPENDENT : 22nd December
Letter | Cuts threaten a great library
from Tim Stimpson, Birmingham
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Don’t Privatise Libraries : 23rd December
Managers and staff of Havering Libraries put forward new proposals
http://dontprivatiselibraries.
Voices for the Library : 18th December
A stark warning about the future for public libraries
http://www.
Liverpool Echo : 23rd December
Wirral council announces ‘partial climbdown’ on start date for reduced library opening hours
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.
Burnham-on-sea.com : 23rd December
Somerset | Mobile library services across the Burnham-On-Sea area face the axe
http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/
Express & Star : 23rd December
Walsall library visitors in fall of 90,000
http://www.expressandstar.com/
Broadway Ham & High : 23rd December
Campaigners want clarity over future of Muswell Hill library
http://www.hamhighbroadway.co.
Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra : 23rd December
East Renfrewshire | Leisure trust gets green light
http://www.
Ripon Gazette : 22nd December
‘Great concerns’ raised over Ripon library’s future
It is ‘not clear the extent of volunteering expected/needed with core or hybrid libraries’.
http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/
Prescot Online : 22nd December
Knowsley Proposal to Cut Library Opening Times, Review Jobs
Knowsley Council have announced proposals to reduce opening hours at each of the borough’s five remaining libraries.
http://prescotonline.co.uk/
Barry & District News : 22nd December
Rhoose Library campaigners deliver petition to council
“People in Rhoose are completely opposed to this proposal and the cavalier way the council has managed the issue. They have effectively threatened local people that either they come forward to run the library or it will be closed.”
http://www.
Lancashire Telegraph : 22nd December
Consultation period over Blackburn with Darwen library services
…. with the possibility of the community running libraries in Blackburn with Darwen.
http://www.
