Wednesday, 20 July 2016

A load of old cobblers, Minister.

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"If Andy Burnham is not prepared to intervene when library provision is slashed in a local authority such as the Wirral, it is clear th...
Saturday, 16 April 2016

Difficult, like asking which lunatic should run the asylum.

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I emailed Oxfordshire county council how they believe they can still be providing a service that meets the requirements of the act by having...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.

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Now that Oxfordshire County Council has passed its latest budget cuts, they're going to completely abolish the mobile library service. T...
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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. ...