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May 14, 2006
Ealing
Stan from Ealing has been fantastically helpful and he asks me to stress the following:
"I would like to add to your wish-list that a good local library should retain its link with the national interlibrary loans system which can ensure that specialist technical reference works are available to all members of the public regardless of their location.
The initiatives taken by Buckinghamshire County Council to transfer control of the libraries to untrained local residents (who will have to fund the library from their own pockets) means that libraries such as that of Little Chalfont (if it survives at all) will be effectively cut-off from the mainstream.
See the excellent BBC Action Network website for more details on this and other library matters."
In a separate note to me Stan said:
"(People)... make a serious mistake when
they think that those who are most committed to digital media are hostile to books. This could not be more wrong. It is really only the pseudo-tech poseurs who adopt a "books are obsolete" stance. Most software and internet technicians are natural allies for a campaign to promote good libraries. They are, almost without exception, acutely aware of the technical and legal limitations of access to detailed topical source material."
Thank you Stan. Your point is made with authority and it is such an important thing to say.
"Pseudo-Tech Poseurs"! I must remember that. (What did M.L.A. stand for?)
Posted by Tim Coates at May 14, 2006 4:29 PM
Comments
I think it would be a good idea to revisit the issue of the Little Chalfont library campaign. It failed to save the libraries in Buckinghamshire. The local council made sure of that.
Posted by: Will at November 24, 2006 5:54 AM