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June 1, 2006
Campaigners trying to save libraries from closure
Please will anyone campaigning to try and save libraries from closure or reductions of book funds, opening hours etc please contact me as soon as possible. Either on here as a comment or by email to tim.coates@yahoo.com. Please pass this on. Many thanks
Tim
Posted by Tim Coates at June 1, 2006 4:44 PM
Comments
Hi Tim,
Unfortunately I'm sorry to have to say that Dorset's Libraries too are under threat. Dorset County Council has proposed the closure of 13 libraries in Dorset, that’s a third of all libraries in Dorset. After initially proposing a timetable of closure in just eighty days the Council has proposed an extension of one month, they are still talking about going ahead in July. Nearly all of these libraries are in rural areas and the closure of any of them will affect the young and the elderly the most in all thirteen locations. My local library is threatened with closure, it has been a reading room for 120 years. The campaign to stop these proposals is well under way and I am trying to publicize these measures as much as possible by setting up a web site at http://www.dorsetforme.org.
Regards
Philip Nash
Posted by: Philip Nash at June 2, 2006 1:41 AM