Tuesday, 26 January 2016

This is a British democracy, Bernard!

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Lot of stuff flying round about the SCL and its decision to not support the CILIP My Library My Right campaign and Halifax teaching people ...
Monday, 14 September 2015

Government figures are a nonsense, anyway.

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A copy of the cipfa dataset that shows all the library authorities visits and issues paints a really grim picture for the library sector. Ev...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

He can talk in clichés till the cows come home

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I haven't written anything on libraries for a while. But today a couple of things got me riled up enough to commit finger to key. The fi...
Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Everything is at risk

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Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is preparing for another round of cuts and seems to have forgotten that libraries are a statutory service. ...
Thursday, 7 May 2015

If a library closes in the New Forest, does Vaizey make a sound?

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Tomorrow or over the next few weeks we may have a new minister responsible for libraries. Considering the three main parties are unintereste...
Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Samaritans Radar

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Disclosure: I am a Samaritan volunteer, the views below are my own, I don't represent the organisation and I've not sought permissio...
Sunday, 6 July 2014

When all three parties agree, something must be wrong

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The SCL are now thinking about stepping in to help the volunteer libraries. In SCL stakeholders meeting, I made the point that there's s...