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libraries - News
Last updated 05.09.08
Librarians 'inflate issues'
Librarians are manipulating their issuing numbers to meet statistical targets, according to a candid debate on libraries online forum...
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Author launches libraries campaign
Children's writer Alan Gibbons is launching an authors' campaign against library...
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Appledore Book Festival saves local library
An author-led campaign to save Devon's Appledore library from closure has resulted in a...
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libraries - In Depth
Last updated 11.02.08
There's more to libraries than lending
The headline figures for library visits and book issues for 2006–07, released last month by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA), are not encouraging. The overall pattern is one of declining numbers both in...
Opening shots from the Admiral
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is used to talking in optimistic PR terms about "engagement", "leadership"and "innovation"—but its new chief executive Roy Clare will not brook any blather.When...
Local hero?
New culture minister Margaret Hodge has backed away from her right to seize control of failing libraries, saying that any use of her powers under the 1964 Public Libraries & Museums Act would be “short-sighted”.Speaking to...
libraries - Blogs
Last updated 31.07.08
Martin Latham
Saving our libraries
As library usage continues to decline and new measures to combat this seem to be failing, what can done to turn this round?
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Desmond Clarke
Libraries: beware of aggregation
For many local communities 'aggregation' of libraries and 'super libraries' are not acceptable.
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Neill Denny
A neutral space
If libraries become arenas of surveillance or censorship their role as a community-wide hub is...
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