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August 10, 2009
My Local library is shut
Everyone keeps telling me that the library service is improving and where I am (Camden) there are super ideas for making things better.
So off I plod to my local library to take out a few books because we are going off for a long weekend holiday... and it is shut. I still can't get the hang of the opening hours, or closing hours as my son calls them.
There is, however, a large sign in the window and on the door announcing that the library will be especially firmly shut for the August Bank Holiday - on exactly the same days it is shut every week .
Is the matter addressed by the 'London Libraries Change Programme'? -- Not at all so far as I can see.
Posted by Perkins at August 10, 2009 4:24 PM
Comments
Library opening hours at my library exclude lunchtime and week ends. Requests over the years for extensions, to allow more people to use it, have been received with the caveat that "We can change the hours, but not extend them". Users have been against this, as completely new hours would only confuse all those who have got the hang of when it opens. Then, when its closure is proposed (regularly), one of the reasons given is that its hours are very limited. Yes, they are, but whose fault is that? I presume Camden is much the same. It is a strange way to go on. On a brighter note, when these libraries are open they are havens -- much loved by all those who enter them.
Posted by: Shirley Burnham at August 11, 2009 9:46 AM