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February 8, 2008
The Reading Agency
Someone has just sent me an expensive multicoloured news letter from The Reading Agency..
Nowhere on it do we see the ever ready "Love Libraries" luxury logo designed by Saatchi and Saatchi at huge expense just two years ago..
Neverthless the most exciting news is that The Reading Agency has a new logo.. Roughly speaking the the new logo is ......" read "
The nanny state thrives strongly at The Reading Agency-- where all the nannies swoosh champagne for elevenses.
Bless.. The magazine also calls for a vision for Public Libraries.. Perhaps they mean Mrs Hodge is a vision in tights? Mrs Mansion Polish, as we call her, has gone very quiet-- even shy and sheepish.. But all the MP's have gone a bit quiet recently as they have been found out for having their paws in the goldfish bowl!
The magazine also reveals an exciting new alliance between The Reading Agency and The Society of Chief Librarians.. If you didn't laugh it would make you weep buckets! Keep it up girls, someone has to be the pom pom bobblers for libraries.
Posted by Perkins at February 8, 2008 10:19 AM
Comments
Is this to do with the Year of Reading? That has not got off to a good start with news of the library closures - just when it is meant to be encouraging library membership.
And if membership does increase, that will mean fewer books per reader unless the number of books is increased.
If all the money spent on all these "agencies" went on books, word would get around that libraries were worth visiting.
Posted by: Christopher Hawtree at February 9, 2008 3:49 PM