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July 18, 2009
No more reports
We won't improve the public library service by writing any more reports about it.. We need plans to make specific improvements -- and we need analysis of public opinion about libraries, but we don't need any more reviews.
In Swindon this week ERS have produced a report which echoes almost exactly the work that was done six months ago-- but it isn't the plan for the improvement that is needed; it is the opposite- it is calling, again, for a plan to be written. A plan would have shown exactly what is going to be done, how it will be paid for, who will do it and what results it is intended to achieve and when.
The management and leadership is too weak - and that will not produce the improvement to which the public is entitled for the money it pays.
Perhaps the DCMS and the APPG have realised this and abandoned their year long review programmes. Pigs might fly.
Posted by Perkins at July 18, 2009 11:16 AM
Comments
Perkins' comments make sense. Look at the new proposals for Old Town Library. They do nothing to address the underlying problems in Swindon's library service, highlighted in the February report and reiterated in the ERS Report. Words fail to express the frustration of residents.
Posted by: Shirley Burnham at July 19, 2009 11:55 AM