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September 12, 2008
MLA is a political body
Make no mistake the MLA view of public libraries is an extremely political one. It says 'irrespective of what the general public want we will provide the public libraries for them that we think they should have'
Those people who disagree with this approach are derided and ignored. Those who observe that the general public expectation is for a good collection of literature and reading and access to it, buildings that are welcoming and open, are sneered at. Those who criticise huge needless, inefficient expenditures of public money are called 'lacking in expertise'
This is not the way it should be.
We don't want to hear a Minister or a Roy Clare stand up yet again at a conference and say, as David Lammy did, that 'those who disagree with us are living in the past' or like Margaret Hodge did, say that 'their ideas smell of Mansion Polish' . We don't want to hear that stuff ever again, but I suspect we are going to.
Posted by Perkins at September 12, 2008 2:01 PM
Comments
I would still like to know - what does the MLA actually do?
Posted by: James Christie at September 15, 2008 2:01 PM