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October 23, 2007
Never on a Sunday
Christopher Hawtree posts:
BRIGHTON LIBRARY NEVER ON A SUNDAY?
Shortly before the local Elections in May, both the Conservative and Labour parties vied with each other to announce that, whichever of them took charge of Brighton and Hove Council, the Jubilee Library in Brighton would be opened on a Sunday.
In the event, this time the Conservatives gained control of another hung Council.
Readers were eager to discover when the Sunday opening would begin. However, at both a recent Culture Committee meeting and then one of the Full Council, questions about this were deflected by Councillor David Smith with the less than specific reply that matters were in hand.
News is awaited - and perhaps a delay is explained by the innate problem of the library being funded by the private firms behind the eareas PFI deal (how this fits in with the overall funding of the authority's fourteen libraries is a puzzle).
Meanwhile, readers are also eager for the architect Nick Lomax being allowed to fulfil his original intention of creating fine ground-floor shelving for whose overhead lighting there are dozens of electrical sockets in the floor.
Such shelves would let readers know that they have arrived in a library.
Posted by Perkins at October 23, 2007 10:22 PM