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November 30, 2009
Wirral News
Congratulations to Sue Charteris and to the campaigners on the Wirral. The first sighting of the long awaited report makes good reading.
It will be rare to find a council across the country that would satisfy the tests she has applied-- that the council library service should understand (from evidence) the library needs of its residents and act logically in response to them.
Of course it is these same two tests that one has cried out for both the London Libraries Change Programme and the DCMS libraries review to satisfy. All the evidence so far suggests that what both these studies are doing would not and that if they were working as they should there would be no need for the needless secrecy that currently surrounds both projects
In truth the policies of both Labour and Conservative parties will fail the fundamental points raised in the Charteris report. Neither of them, in setting out their polcies have addressed the library needs of ordinary people now. They must. .. otherwise the public library service will have been destroyed within the next ten years.
Posted by Perkins at November 30, 2009 2:22 PM