« Read all about a life of leisure in Liverpool | Main | One third of library professionals to be made redundant »
November 22, 2006
Review of Devon libraries
I have quickly read the review of Devon library services published yesterday. It seems that the decision to retain some libraries and not others is based on how much fuss was made by local residents - there has been a very intense analysis of fuss-measurement.
As someone else has already pointed out, the report doesn't contain a financial figure of almost any kind.
It is not what I was expecting at all. So does one assume that Devon county council has loads of money for its library service and that action is all taken in response to fuss-alerts. I suggest therefore that someone makes a long painful cry about book stocks - which also are hardly mentioned.
Of course if management of the library service is not about accounting for how money is spent, then I suppose this is what we can expect.
Posted by Tim Coates at November 22, 2006 10:21 AM
Comments
Tim, as I was born in devon and now live in London, I'm glad that a blog like yours (and more importantly, the local residents), have made sure SOME of these libraries are kept open. Shame about the others.
Posted by: les at November 22, 2006 1:28 PM
Some / many of the libraries have several blogs. Do we choose one blog from the library to evaluate or evaluate the library’s blogs in general?
Posted by: tina helen at April 28, 2007 8:32 AM