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April 18, 2007
£575,000 -- for another teenage library project
£575.000 is a lot of money for a project of this kind. I hope someone from the Reading Agency will respond to this and say how much of the money has been spent on books.
Those who conceive these projects would do well to pay a visit to either HMV or Borders- or even a fashion shop.
The key elements, as always, are to have the right items available, make the place clean smart and attractive, and to have staff who look as if they will be able to answer your questions and to be open..
To call a library a "bar" - is plain pathetic and to call people "book pushers" - is plain awful; as Susan says below in her comment about David Lammy- it is all so patronising. -- and £575,000 is a lot of money.
The library service in Derbyshire is jolly nice and cheerful, but they would do well to look at the stock (as I have done) -- and someone else would tell them that they would have been better spending this money on books.
Everybody is supposed to love the Reading Agency-- but frankly they appear to me like a do-gooding agency which takes money to appear worthy to those who give out money. They should do better than this. Still, they are all MBE's and OBE's so who am I?
Posted by Tim Coates at April 18, 2007 8:44 AM
Comments
what a waste of money........its like wrapping and empty box for christmas with expensive wrapping paper.......
Posted by: les at April 18, 2007 3:04 PM
The importance of parental guidance and education seems to be missing from a lot of government policy on young people and reading. As a child, I was taken to the library from a young age. My parents presented it to me as a friendly and interesting place, and as a result, I used libraries as a teenager and again at university. The one thing guaranteed to put teenagers off libraries is pretending they're something they're not.
Posted by: deargreenplace at April 20, 2007 3:43 PM