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October 28, 2008
Close the libraries to save the jobs of the staff.
Here is a story in the South Yorkshire Star that brings the whole public library service into disrepute.
I wonder what Roy Clare and Andy Burnham would have to say about this -- and the people of Doncaster--- but nobody seems terribly worried about them.
Posted by Perkins at October 28, 2008 10:38 AM
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Doncaster's U-turn (that repeated Lambeth's U-turn of last year) takes the prize for logic:
"... staff can stay where they are because they are going to cut opening hours instead".
I know "economy of scale" seems to work in reverse for library authorities, but if we can cut staff to get MORE hours (and more books?), then the current definition of a public library as a "place that employs librarians" will have to give way to the archaic "place that keeps books".
Posted by: No Brain at October 28, 2008 1:56 PM