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June 12, 2007
Philip Pettifor
Readers of the blog will remember that earlier this year Philip Pettifor died, unexpectedly, of cancer.
Philip has been one of the main architects of our endeavour to revive the public library service. He was a wonderful communicator, an experienced marketeer and a tremendous mind.
It is to their enduring shame that civil servants of the DCMS and officers of the MLS labelled him a "trouble-maker" - for asking them difficult questions about how they conducted their responsibilities. Philip's successful efforts have been considerably greater than theirs.
We have gathered together the pieces of Philip's writings on libraries and his contribution to the Libri website on an entry which you can read in the left hand tramline here.
Posted by Perkins at June 12, 2007 8:51 AM