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October 17, 2007
Best practice
One of the cliches of the MLA, ACL, DCMS, CILIP etc etc is that they take best practice and show it to others
I wonder how they know what best practice is?
I looked at the names of the policy makers and all the people on all the executives, committees and boards - and of those who have or have had anything to do with libraries- and found that almost all of them have authorities which lie in the bottom 25% of performance..
These are people who think that closing libraries, reducing opening hours and book funds or spending 100's of millions on daft landmark buildings is the way to run a library service. What a bunch !! shall I list their names? (mind you there's quite a few OBE's, MBE's etc !)
And just to prove the point news arrives that the poor taxpayers of the City of Birmingham are to spend 193million pounds on a new library - my goodness this is the council that has regularly stopped buying books in recent years etc etc -- see many back numbers of Private Eye
That's the cost of 1,930 new community libraries across the country including lots of books! It makes you wonder whether to believe any of the stories about the struggle to fund local government -- doesn't it.?
Posted by Tim Coates at October 17, 2007 3:34 PM