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September 12, 2006
America picks up the story
The United Press in America repeated the story of Susan Hill' comment about the state of UK libraries
One fact of which readers may not be aware is that the library "standards" referred to in the piece were set in 2000 after much discussion at a level whereby about half councils achieved half the standards. The truth is that 6 years later after huge investment of money and many initiatives by Government, any improvement against these scores is hard to see.
Parliament called them "low standards" and the anxiety is that in this current review they will become even lower and less relevant to the public need.
That is why asking library managers to decide what the measures should be and determine the standards that will be set, is so obviously not the decent and right way to review them.
The "stakeholders" are the general public
And here is the story in The Times of North Korea
Posted by Tim Coates at September 12, 2006 10:09 AM