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August 9, 2008
Public Libraries in Camden
This is a subject very close to my heart and my cat flap.
Alan Templeton who leads both the Camden library users group and the LLL (Libraries for Life for London) campaign in the metropolis has made very sensible comments about the service in Camden for many years.
Here is his latest news piece in The Camden New Journal.
The Councillor in question, Flick Rea, is a very nice lady well known in the area and an excellent ward councillor, but since being elevated not only to responsibility for libraries in Camden, but also to the London Libraries Development Agency, has not shown the courage that is needed to face the issues in her own council .. She needs strong support and some more steel in her approach. Alan Templeton, as he often has been, is exactly right in what he says.
People (and small black cats) in Camden pay more for their public library service than almost anywhere in the world. They deserve better, much better, than they get.
Posted by Perkins at August 9, 2008 11:09 AM