A digest of today’s news items, reproduced here, with kind permission from Shirley Burnham. If you are on Twitter she is definitely worth following! Find her @shirleyburnham
THE BOOKSELLER : 31st January
SCL announces ‘universal offers’ for libraries
http://www.thebookseller.com/
THE BOOKSELLER : 31st January
SCL | Cox: Libraries ‘must do more with less’
http://www.thebookseller.com/
BBC Radio 4 : 31st January
World at One | Libraries feature
includes Biddy Fishy and an interview with Ed Vaizey (23.42 minutes in)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
THE GUARDIAN : 31st January
GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Public Libraries News : 30th January
National Audit Office highlight libraries as suffering from cuts
http://www.
LGA : 30th January
Press Release | LGA response to NAO report on council sustainability
http://www.local.gov.uk/web/
Phil Bradley’s Weblog : 31st January
A ‘Friends of’ library response
http://philbradley.typepad.
Camden New Journal : 31st January
Warning from teachers fighting planned closure of Regent’s Park Library: ‘Pupils’ access to books
and computers is vitally important’
http://www.camdennewjournal.
Doncaster Free Press : 31st January
Glimmer of hope for Denaby’s old library
http://www.doncasterfreepress.
Barnet & Whetstone Press : 31st January
Residents on the verge of sealing official takeover at Friern Barnet Library
http://www.barnet-today.co.uk/
THE INDEPENDENT : 31st January
The medicinal power of literature: Books on prescription to be introduced
“The big concern, as well as the closures, is that services have been hollowed out. Opening hours are shorter, and they have got rid of professional librarians for volunteers. There’s a lot of anger out there.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
