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July 10, 2007
Dorset libraries destruct
Please look at the Dorsetforyou website. This is the official website of Dorset county council.
This week a proposal about the library service is going to cabinet to reduce the opening hours at all 34 service points, cut 1 mobile library, and as many as 46 staff to be made redundant. Full DCC meeting will ratify next week - 19th .
Amazingly, last Monday July 2nd, the library service was reorganised after 12th months work. By Wednesday staff were told this reorganisation would have to be done again!
At the end of all this the service will have 18 core libraries, all the rest, though still open, will largely be run by volunteers.
Morale among the staff is rock bottom, nobody there seems to know what to do.
Posted by Tim Coates at July 10, 2007 4:32 PM