Libraries news round-up: 24 June 2018
The Times: 24 June Ireland | Open libraries: read it and weep Hereford Times: 24 June Call for a rethink on future of Herefordshire's libraries
Libraries News Round-up: 8 May
The Irish News: 8 May Letter | Education and libraries support critical thinking – let's invest http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/2017/05/08/news/education-and-libraries-support-critical-thinking-let-s-invest-1018022/ The Northern Echo: 8 May Darlington library campaigner and MP hopeful supported cuts…
Libraries News Round-up: 19 January
UNISON : 17th January ‘Ten thousand books were pulped’ – your library stories https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2017/01/library-stories/ THE BOOKSELLER : 19th January Irish book community 'dismayed' over library tender http://www.thebookseller.com/news/irish-book-associations-protest-library-tender-472421 Manchester Evening News…
Libraries News Round-up: 8 January
Don't Privatise Libraries : 8th January There's a fightback taking place in Ireland against staffless libraries but why not in the UK? http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/theres-fightback-taking-place-in.html Leon's Library Blog : 8th January Libraries…
Libraries News Round-up: 30 September 2016
Public Libraries News : 29th September Editorial | Viciously reducing bookfunds http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/09/viciously-reducing-bookfunds.html ITV News : 30th September Lancashire's cash crisis - museums and libraries close with Video report http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2016-09-30/lancashires-cash-crisis-museums-and-libraries-close/ Blog Preston : 30th September…
Libraries News Round-up: 3rd July 2014
Save Lincolnshire Libraries : 3rd July Sir Peter Tapsell (Con MP) & Lincs Library Cuts Councillor Stephen Palmer receives an answer to his Open Letter from the Father of the House…
Libraries News Round-up: 4th September 2013
BBC Radio 4 iPlayer : 4th September Michael Rosen | Our Libraries: The Next Chapter - Episode 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038xx7b Save Lincolnshire Libraries : 3rd September Open Letter from a 90-year old Lincolnshire…
Libraries News Round-up: 6th May 2013
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…