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July 20, 2006
Lambeth slash the Book Fund!
Blow me down- I wrote about Lambeth on here last night and this morning they have cut the book fund!
Here is an article and here is my piece last night in which I wrote that the people of Lambeth pay £6.2m every year for nine libraries and just 4.5% of that is spent on books. Now the council have Slashed The Book Fund!
Very pleased to see Councillor John Whelan use the expression "Death by a thousand cuts"-- those fine words were first used to describe the writhings of the library service by Mr Elgar Atkins of Bloggington on Sea. I can't remember whether it was on here on another website, but it is such vivid expression (and borne out of great literature)
You should note that the Councillor in the article refers to "The Stock Fund" -- the expenditure on books will only be a part of that, because priority will be given to the purchase of DVD's etc from which an income can be derived. The book fund will be a small part of the Stock Fund.
Posted by Tim Coates at July 20, 2006 1:14 PM