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23 December 2008 02:47

Support builds for Unison campaign

Poet Laurate and, significantly, the new Chair of the MLA, Andrew Motion, has attacked library closures, according to the Guardian: Poet laureate speaks out against library closures Meanwhile, at Westminster, an early day motion supporting Unison's campaign Read More...
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17 December 2008 02:53

The library profession seen through the LRB personals

The London Review of Books personal advertisements have always fascinated me, though I must make it clear that I browse them in a spirit of disinterested academic enquiry. Recently my eye was caught by this one: My profile here boasts... Read More...
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16 December 2008 03:03

UNISON: library services nearing crisis point

UNISON launched a campaign yesterday to defend the public library service against cuts and closures, deskilling of library workers and privatisation. The union, which organises a substantial proportion of Britain's library workers in public libraries, Read More...
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11 December 2008 02:38

BSMS: federated access case study

In the struggle to implement federated access in a relatively straightforward organisation, still not working, though we started back in the summer, I didn't stop to think about how it might work in more complicated situations. The UK Federation website.. Read More...
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06 December 2008 09:43

Q: How many new public libraries have been opened? A: Some, we think

I'm alarmed to see that the new libraries minister, Barbara Follet, and those at DCMS who write her answers to questions, don't know how many new public libraries were opened in the past ten years. The answer she gave, comparing... Read More...
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