The Good Library Blog

Perkins. You must remember that the MLA does not have a good track record of answering FOI questions. They have a habit of missing things out. You ought to remember that of all cats.

The 'Big Open Society' was dreamed up by David Camerons press relations man, you know, the ex-News of the World critter. You really believed all that stuff?

And its only weeks ago that you were pontificating on how nice it was to have a strong government. Oh dear.

The 'Securitate' were the secret police in Romania, not the Stasi...that was Eastern Germany....according to my local online Ask a Librarian service. Thank God for public librarians.

Andrew.. I know you won't forgive me but I am still hoping that this government and Ed Vaizey will be able to sort all this out.

Perkins, don't hold your breath - Ed Vaizey is currently running a series of trials on alternative forms of library provision in conjunction with the MLA - which includes a bookshelf in a Suffolk pub. According to the BBC programme which visited the pub, it wasn't a "very large shelf" but the landlord apologised, assuring the presenter that it was the only one they had.

Mott Macdonald (a large international engineering conglomerate) are obviously flavour of the month. They are currently providing 'advice' to people who want to set up their own schools under new government plans. Three guesses as to what sort of provision they might favour (a) for schools and (b) for libraries.
Still I shouldn't be cynical. They may be taking advice from rival consultants KPMG and giving their services to London Libraries Change Programme as volunteers?

A council's inability to formulate strategy and manage its services is very good news for consultancy firms, like Mott Macdonald, who have identified public services as a lucrative avenue of activity. It is likely they will welcome an opportunity to get a foot in the door by means of a modestly paid consultancy in the hope of the ultimate prize, that they will themselves be taken on to manage the provision of services.

I have it on good authority that when consultancy firms are asked to provide a service for which they do not have in-house expertise, they contract in a specialist. It would seem intelligent on their part for them to hire Tim Coates.

P.S. I have said, in Swindon, that if there are no cuts to libraries and library staff I would eat my hat. Problem is, Ed Vaizey asked me for my hat in July and I gave it to him. Will he eat it on my behalf, should that become necessary?

As an aside (and not sure how to contact you) I found this recently posted article 'What next for the local library?' on the BBC News website which you may possibly be interested in commenting on -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/willgompertz/2010/08/what_next_for_the_local_librar.html#comments.

I started off likening CILIP (may they rot in hell...) to the People's Front of Judea so it seems like a good time to widen my analogy to include the LLCP, who seem totally incapable of using plain language to make commonsense decisions. We seem to have entered an era of Orwellian doublespeak where, rather than it being imposed from without, everyone is taking refuge behind poncey language. Is it any surprise Gene Hunt of 'Life on Mars' was so popular? He talked like we all sometimes wish we were still allowed to. Pity we couldn't just fire up the Quattro, ram-raid the LLCP and put them in the cells for the night. Or longer.

Уже год пью Ярину, прописал гинеколог (поликистоз). Месячные буквально каждый день приходили на 3 день в последствии последней таблетки (т.е. по вторникам). Причем даже четко в районе 10-12 часо утра. Сегодн их нет!!! И даже никаких симптомов приближения (обычно немного побаливал живот). Такое вобще у кого-нибудь было??? И что делать?
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