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August 20, 2006
Libraries at risk of Closure in Wales and Scotland
On the same basis as the lists for England were prepared in the next entry, here are the councils in Wales and Scotland, who, if they do not undertake some radical urgent management action, are most likely to close libraries.
In both Scotland Wales there are a large number of councils who do not make entries to the national return- so I do not know how complete these lists are.
Wales
Powys
Gwynedd
Pembrokeshire
Ceredigion
Flintshire
Conwy
Bridgend
Blaenau Gwent
Carmarthenshire
Neath Port Talbot
Scotland
Highland
Scottish Borders
Shetland
East Ayrshire
Eilean Siar
Dumfries & Galloway
Stirling
Aberdeenshire
Clackmannanshire
West Lothian
I am, of course, offering to help any council anywhere address the problems it faces in its library service.
In these two lists and the ones for England, it is not hard to deduce that we have a huge potential problem in rural libraries, where they are most needed. I think there is a call for a concerted effort to help before the libraries have shut
Posted by Perkins at August 20, 2006 10:38 AM
Comments
People will only make an effort when their own branch library is theatened with closure... it`s just the way they are. When it is they rise up and then woe betide the would-be Closers. Look what happened in Wales a couple of weeks ago... hasty backtrack, no closures. Probably best to wait until actual places are announced as being under immediate threat of closure then put every possible bit of help we can the way 0f the protesters.
Posted by: SUSAN HILL at August 20, 2006 12:36 PM
Yes, that certainly happened around here, exactly as Susan Hill says. Several libraries were ear-marked for closure and local protests saved most of them.
Posted by: Clare at August 20, 2006 1:33 PM
And it would be perfectly reasonable to suppose that no protest would mean that particular library wasn`t wanted anyway.
Posted by: SUSAN HILL at August 20, 2006 5:15 PM