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October 4, 2006
It's a lottery
I am told that Mr Woolly Jumper, Miss Bo Peep, Delay (the Department of Libraries and archives), The Knitting Agency etc are all about to announce again that they have persuaded the "Big Lottery" foolishly to give them all £80m to turn our public libraries into community centres. They have already announced it several times before, but it is conference time and there is pitiful else to talk about.
This won't be used for books, extending opening hours or even fixing the library roof on the 1000 libraries now open to the elements, but rather for "making better use of library space" . I suppose there will be lots of projects like installing rowing machines in Liverpol Central Library, or holding rock concerts in other libraries of Lancashire, which I saw the other day.
£80m is money so desperately needed -- but who would trust "Delay" and its 87 regional offices to know what to do with it. Anyhow by the time they have all had 3,000 committee meetings to design the application forms, there won't be any money left at all- even to set up the odd juice bar.
We don't trust you to understand what a library is, Mr Jumper, nor do we believe that any of the little baa-lambs in the pen with you have a clue either.
Posted by Perkins at October 4, 2006 9:30 AM