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June 22, 2006
Thank you to Simon Fraser for a blogwoosh
Simon is a news editor on the BBC website. When I came home this evening the hit counter on this blog site, the blogometer, had gone off the top of the scale and blown a fuse. This (I'm sure) is because he described us as "inflential" in an excellent article he posted.
If anyone reads this the important message is this:
There is no need for any library to close; every library service in the country is perfectly well funded-- the problem is that the funds have been, over many years, diverted into what everyone else would call excessive management and administration when technology could have reduced these costs. These matters are not made clear to local councillors who admirably but foolishly defend their management instead of giving them proper challenge. If anyone want to know how to make the fair and sensible appraisal of their own local library service, with their councillors, calmly and dispassionately, so that the service can be improved, then I can help. There is a whole routine that is available to help councils renew and improve their services, but in order to use it, they have to ask. It's no good trying to tell them what to do. tim.coates@yahoo.com
Posted by Tim Coates at June 22, 2006 7:45 PM
Comments
Hello again Tim.
Now I live in Berneray in the Outer Hebrides:
http://www.isleofberneray.com/
Even here, the library service is essential - possibly more so because of the large distances (the Outer Hebrides is longer than from Glasgow to Newcastle).
Here's an entry and pics on my blog, done when the mobile library van arrived. And long may it continue:
http://silversprite.wordpress.com/2005/12/22/mobile-a-go-go/
Posted by: John Kirriemuir at June 22, 2006 9:18 PM