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FUNDING for public libraries across the region has plunged by £735,000 in three years and at least 20 fully-qualified librarian posts have been lost.New figures reveal the scale of cutbacks to... 
LAST month, Surrey County Council's plan to withdraw funding from ten public libraries – including Warlingham, Tattenhams and Lingfield – was branded "unlawful".Surrey Libraries... 
TWO mobile libraries which serve residents in rural areas are being axed as part of an ongoing programme of council cuts.Cheshire East Council wants to slash its library provision to rural communities... 
WE all rightly applaud the fantastic work done by volunteers – but the Government is now becoming far too reliant on them. CAMPAIGNERS have urged the council to put an immediate stop to plans to demolish a library after 5,000 people petitioned against it. 
council chiefs in North Yorkshire have said a High Court ruling that a local authority’s transfer of the running of libraries to volunteers is “procedurally flawed and unlawful” will not swerve their near-identical plans off course. 
CAMPAIGNERS have criticised Croydon Council's hiring of a £40,000-a-year consultant to oversee the cost-saving outsourcing of the borough's 14 libraries.The authority told the Advertiser it had... 
No libraries in North Somerset will be closed as a result of spending cuts but self-service terminals in most libraries, new opening hours, reduced staffing levels and community involvement are the... 
Nearly 4,000 people in Gloucestershire have their say on county council plans to reduce library services. 
Save Croydon Libraries Campaign appreciates the Croydon Guardian covering the ongoing saga of Croydon Libraries with a further article on their website today but we do question why they will not engage directly with the campaign group to verify the facts. The same article went into the printed edition, without correction 
A RALLYING cry has been issued to help safeguard the future of Kidwelly's library.In January, an offer by a private company in excess of £115,000 was accepted for the former town council... LIBRARY campaigners are to get more chance to have their say after Kirklees Council pledged to review the way it was asking for their views. |
AT THE height of the Cold War the American science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury, published a dystopian novel called Fahrenheit 451, a title that refers to the temperature at which paper spontaneously... 
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save their library will receive another profile boost when they appear on popular topical programme The One Show... 
At a time when library services across the country are threatened, Lancashire County Council is bucking the trend as its high-profile campaign to bring people back to its libraries is extended to East Lancashire. 
LIBRARY users in Burnham are being invited to take part in a county-wide survey of the service this month. 
Surrey County Council's plans for 10 libraries to be run by volunteers is ruled unlawful by the High Court. 
Seven libraries in Gloucestershire will still lose their council funding under proposals to save £1.8m. 
STURRY library has closed again after a car ploughed into the building – just four days after it reopened following a suspected arson attack.The site, in Chafy Crescent, was forced to shut after... FUNDRAISING is one of the first priorities for a committee set up to take over the running of a branch library. 
The Courier provides local news in Leamington - sport, property, community, jobs, lifestyle, news, business and offers online from the Leamington area. 
A revised plan which will see five full-time workers remain at two Trafford libraries, has been approved. Council bosses had wanted to staff Old Trafford and Hale libraries with one member of staff each, supported by volunteers. 
Children's author Michael Morpurgo today congratulated London’s new reading world record holders — but warned that books could soon become the preserve of the wealthy. |
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