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$2.86 of benefits for each $1 spent, library study claims 30 Jul 2012 | 04:05 am
News Book spend of 31p speaks volumes - Times Educational Supplement. "According to the government, authors such as Dryden, Keats and Dickens should be at the heart of school life. But far from val...
Services "being maintained or enhanced" 28 Jul 2012 | 05:21 pm
News AAA adds voice to PLR transfer opposition - BookSeller. "n a submission to the consultation launched by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport into transferring the administration of PLR ...
Dwindling breed 27 Jul 2012 | 04:54 am
News Author Sarah Waters fears an unhappy ending for new libraries - Camden New Journal. "A former Camden librarian who became an award-winning author has criticised cuts to local government services...
Doncaster, Surrey, Wakefield, Gloucestershire, Brent 26 Jul 2012 | 04:31 am
Actions Doncaster - Donations requested for funding judicial review against libraries being closed / forced onto volunteers. School libraries - Mass lobby of parliament October 29th. News "Ok devi...
Surrey chooses volunteers over paid staff at the same cost 25 Jul 2012 | 06:10 am
In a move motivated apparently largely by a belief that it will improve the service rather create savings, Surrey has confirmed that ten libraries will be volunteer-run by March 2013. This is the sec...
Library pornography, cats, privatisation and PLR 24 Jul 2012 | 06:06 am
News Are Harrow and Ealing joining together to privatise their library services? - Stop the privatisation of public libraries. Harrow and Ealing considering privatisation of their library services d...
101 ways to skin a cat/save a library 22 Jul 2012 | 06:28 am
Comment There's more than one way to skin a cat, or say the saying goes. Suffolk is trying a new one. It will be become the first authority in the country to have its libraries run by an Industr...
Wakefield up to 12 branches may go, 2 possible moves elsewhere 20 Jul 2012 | 06:23 am
News Calls to "move libraries into 21st century" sparks ebook lending review - Guardian. " a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) spokesman has said the culture minister, Ed Vaizey, will s...
Libraries are changing and even thriving. 20 Jul 2012 | 04:35 am
I've just been looking at pictures of Worcestershire’s award winning, £60 million library and history centre, The Hive. They show a lot about some of the trends happening today. The first of these i...
UK's largest "library card for every child" scheme starts in Portsmouth 19 Jul 2012 | 06:26 am
News DCMS accused of "incompetence" over PLR confusion - BookSeller. "The Society of Authors has joined ranks with the shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis in criticising the Department for Culture, ...
