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The MLA
There can hardly be sadder stories more illustrative of the waste of opportunity of the last ten years of government than that of the MLA. We hear that the library staff of the MLA are all about to leave, which is news at the hearing of which the public should not weep. The record of grim... Read more...
Published 4 days ago
The Conservative Party
The Tories had a meeting yesterday to talk about public library policy. Let's hope that there is some useful and sensible outcome. In a democracy we do depend on politicians to take a lead and to take sensible action. Politics is not just about getting elected. The Tories, of course,... Read more...
Published 4 days ago
Sleep walking to disaster
'Sleep walking' was the expression used in a Demos report a few years ago to describe the state of the public library service. Amanda Field makes the point that seems to be eluding all those (many) public librarians who are currently in debate about how to provide TV programmes for library... Read more...
Published 6 days ago
Televisions in Nottingham libraries
Not comprehensive attention to the book collections-- but state of the art screenery in Nottingham 'We are planning to put plasma screens in a library that is being refurbished. We want to put 4 screens in the library and to be to able to show freeview television and PowerPoint... Read more...
Published 6 days ago
Too many conferences, not enough work
5 years ago in a letter to The Bookseller I listed the waste of public money that goes on in the public library service. One of the items was the number of conferences and committee meetings attended by managers that take them away from their job. You would think it was trivial to say such... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
The MLA are ambitious
Here in a Saturday morning press release from the MLA 'Our ambition is that our sectors engagement with the Cultural Olympiad through Setting the Pace will lead to a transformation in the way people experience the inspiration, learning and creativity museum, library and archive collections... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
Elections make no difference
Somewhere in the local government election results we should find the clue to the way that the public library service will improve. We entrust our local politicians with the service. We say frequently that ministers do not have the sway or power to effect change in local councils. But there is... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
A clear focus
From James Christie: I'm probably going to get lynched by a rampaging mob of library bloggers for saying this, but Roy Clare may have the right idea. I came out two years ago and said that libraries should be about books and reading. Not that IT should be thrown out completely, but that books... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Roy Clare speaks about public libraries
Here is the Bookseller report on Roy Clare's speech this morning. It's easy to agree with what he appears to be saying. But why the public have to wait while the library profession indulge themselves in yet another debate about what they should be doing, one cannot understand. It's time they... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
The British Library
The British Library has been the subject of articles in The Times and The Guardian in the past few days. The British Library is a very special place and it is a national place- it does belong to us all. However the under the management of Lynne Brindley it has lost the understanding of... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
Total Delight at the London International Book Fair
The London Book Fair has become a paradise of enjoyment. 3 years ago it was becoming a grey and tired event, although it always fascinating and a pleasure to attend. Then for two awful years it was sent to a gulag in the Docklands. But last year and now this it has become a joy of books... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago
From Andy-- a 'twenty something' librarian
Library staff badly paid or wrongly employed? The advent of new technology, greater centralisation and better sharing between services mean there is a significantly reduced need for cataloguing, information retrieval, classification and professional skills. Therefore fewer professionals are... Read more...
Published 1 month ago
