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August 16, 2006
The reason why
Two conversations today made me understand something that should have been plain to me ages ago: the reason why senior managers of the public library service have so resolutely refused to undertake the reform without which the service will die soon.
If you read the next entries about Lancashire, Yorkshire and Powys, what is obviously happening is that the senior management are hanging on desperately to save their pensions. They couldn't care tuppence about what is left of their public libraries after they retire. If they are all closed, who cares.
If you are under 50 in the library service heed my warning. Unless there is reform there is no future. You need new management at CILIP and you need to support the kind of overhaul for which I am calling.
If you are a member of the public, be certain, unless councillors and MP's are made to shake in their boots, the public library service is already finished.
If you are a library supplier, start looking for another job, or join my call for change. There will be no book purchases for libraries before many years are past.
Posted by Tim Coates at August 16, 2006 5:56 PM