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October 9, 2006
A Welsh Minister ruins the public library service
In Wales book lending in the past 5 years has fallen by 26% -- it is a greater fallen even than England or Scotland
The reason is quite clear - book stocks are poor and getting worse; opening hours are too short and buidlings are delapidated
Alan Pugh, the Minister, shows no sign of understanding any of this (and nor do his advisers in CYMAL) and instead he proposes to change the purpose of libraries as he describes in this initiative.
Posted by Perkins at October 9, 2006 12:56 PM