tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89571404917760297122024-03-18T02:20:07.629-07:00Stop the privatisation of Public LibrariesA blog about library privatisation, and other related matters, in the UK, US and beyond.Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.comBlogger413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-92029023311798391832020-04-18T06:53:00.001-07:002020-04-18T06:53:23.823-07:00‘Close the Libraries’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything here but I felt that now was the time although it’s a very strange thing to be writing about the ‘Close the Libraries’ campaign when I’ve spent the last 10 years fighting to keep them open!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 1/3/20 I tweeted about cleaning & disinfecting Library work surfaces & equipment, this is around the same time when other Library Workers in the UK started to raise concerns regarding the risk of keeping libraries open during a pandemic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Library Workers where saying that they didn’t have hand sanitiser, gloves, masks or even proper washing facilities. They where also asking questions about how long the virus could remain active or survive on different surfaces like paper, plastic, screens etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study that was done on the life of this virus on various surfaces, Paper/cardboard=24hrs, Plastic=72hrs. Many libraries started quarantining materials for 72 hrs then disinfecting but this seemed to be mainly in the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Library Workers in Lambeth decided enough was enough and walked out on 20/3/20 due to a lack of hand sanitising facilities and the lack of social distancing, this forced Lambeth Council to close all of its libraries and even got a mention in The Guardian</span><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/23/close-libraries-now-plead-library-chiefs-as-terrified-london-staff-walk-out"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/23/close-libraries-now-plead-library-chiefs-as-terrified-london-staff-walk-out</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unions where using Section 44 of the Employee Rights Act 1996 to argue that workers could refuse to attend a workplace that they felt put them at risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A key concern for all library staff was social distancing, how do you achieve this in a library setting where staff work behind open desks with no protection and the public and staff are milling around? Libraries where still holding children’s events etc a week before they closed on 23/3/20, in fact I did an Under 5’s session myself to approx 70 children, parents and carers!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A concerned library worker tweeted</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All this inconsistency and indecisiveness was putting library workers under great mental stress, the fallout of which will have to be fully dealt with by services and councils at a future date.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the 17/3/20 Libraries Connected (formerly The Society of Chief Librarians) put out this statement</span></div>
<a href="https://www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/statement-covid-19-and-public-libraries"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/statement-covid-19-and-public-libraries</span></a><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Given the central role of libraries in their communities and their support to the most vulnerable, any decision taken to close buildings should not be taken lightly. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>However, in light of the recent escalation of the COVID-19 crisis and the latest government advice, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that library buildings should close to protect communities and staff from infection. We are calling on government to make a</i> clear decision about closing libraries, along with other public buildings.“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 20/3 the gov decided to close all schools. Library workers where concerned that this would mean that more children (and parents/carers etc) would come into libraries.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the 21/3/20 Libraries Connected wrote to the DCMS asking that Public Libraries be put on the government list of services and institutions that must close due to the pandemic and on the 23/3/20 the DCMS responded saying that councils should be left to make this decision. At this point it was still estimated that 40% of all Public Libraries where still open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then on the very same day that the DCMS stated that councils should make the decision they finally instructed libraries to close.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">“Other premises including libraries, non-essential shops, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.”</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">It’s worth pointing out that many volunteer-led ‘libraries’ had already closed before this date due to the vast majority of volunteers being elderly and therefor at greater risk.</span></span><br />
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This was a very strange day for library workers who on one hand where greatly relieved but on the other where sad to close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the US the #closethelibraries #protectlibraryworkers campaign is still in full swing against those authorities and Library Directors who refuse to fully close their libraries although many are now offering ‘kerb side’ pickups which many still see as unsafe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On twitter and in the real world Callan Bignoli @eminencefont and Alison Macrina @flexlibris have been at the forefront of the campaign and have even managed to get the New York Times to cover it.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/arts/library-workers-us-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/vSl3bUdzme"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/arts/library-workers-us-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/vSl3bUdzme</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what are library workers doing now their branches are closed well many have been redeployed and are helping to contact the elderly and vulnerable and others are doing online storytime sessions etc. The demand for e-books and other online resources has shot through the roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When all this is over if it ever is then let’s hope that politicians and decision makers locally and nationally start to appreciate that libraries really are an essential service not only when there’s a public emergency, but I personally won’t be holding my breath.</span></div>
Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-33208502639115109222018-05-18T06:40:00.002-07:002018-05-18T06:42:47.841-07:00The Society of Chief Librarians, Sopra Steria and visa/immigration services in libraries!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It appears that the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) have been busy striking a deal with the IT outsourcing firm <a href="https://www.governmentcomputing.com/brexit-eu/news/home-office-picks-sopra-steria-deliver-digital-visa-service">Sopra Steria to deliver their newly won digital visa/immigration contract via 56 public libraries.</a><br />
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Sopra Steria have an 'interesting' record, they were recently linked to a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/private-nhs-contractor-loses-medical-documents-department-of-health-sopra-steria-shared-business-a7601061.html">scandal re the loss of 500,000 NHS documents</a> and the loss of <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/15/steria_to_slash_220_jobs_in_gov_biz/">220 jobs in their UK government business.</a><br />
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I suppose it's seen in library establishment circles as just another pragmatic partnership a bit like the ones with Barclays, Cisco, Halifax et al but it'll be interesting to see how this develops and whether CILIP, library users/staff and campaigners put up a fight against what many will see as another major invasion of public library space by a private interest and a further erosion of our ethos.</div>
Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-80533841643128526002018-05-11T07:47:00.000-07:002018-05-11T07:47:59.648-07:00DILON & whiteness in librarianship, my article for 'Opendemocracy' and privatisation in Herefordshire and Hertfordshire.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Firstly and most importantly - the issue of 'whiteness' in the UK library and information profession (96.7% white) is one that needs to be urgently discussed and addressed so it's great to see a new group <a href="https://libdiverse.wordpress.com/">'Diversity in Libraries of the North (DILON)'</a> set up which <i>"advocates for POC/BME/non-white library and information workers in the north of England"</i>. For more about the group read this <a href="https://flipnetworkuk.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/flip-interviews-jen-bayjoo-of-dilon/">interview</a> with the founder Jen Bayjoo.</div>
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Recently I wrote a <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/alan-wylie/public-libraries-are-vital-to-local-communities-labour-must-fight-to-defend-them">piece</a> for 'Opendemocracy' on the fight against library cuts and the need for Labour to adopt a national policy supporting statutory public libraries and the paid/trained staff who work in them.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Campaigners were told to "innovate don't save” and urged to "adopt a positive narrative…if you keep saying libraries are in crisis then people will start to believe it"</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">But groups like Voices for the Library, <a href="http://speakupforlibraries.org/" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration-line: none;">Speak up for Libraries</a> & the newer <a href="https://rlc.radicallibrarianship.org/" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration-line: none;">Radical Librarians Collective</a> spoke out against the cuts and the closures. We spoke out against privatisation and commercialisation. And we were ridiculed and side-lined but we kept speaking out.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hundreds of local campaign groups were formed and spoke up too, organising hundreds of marches and protests and union and community activists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/oct/04/public-libraries-not-obsolete-cuts-closures-protest" style="color: #0061bf;">even managed to organise a national demo in 2016</a>."</span></i></div>
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It's heartening to see<a href="http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/16214107.Labour_Party_supports_local_library_campaign/"> Labour</a> supporting Unison's campaign and <a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-privatisation-of-herefordshire-s-libraries-museums-and-archives">petition </a>opposing the privatisation of libraries in Herefordshire.</div>
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It looks very likely that <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/16197536.Libraries_could_no_longer_be_owned_by_county_council/">Hertfordshire CC</a> will adopt the PSM (Public Service Mutual) model for their library service. They cite Suffolk, Devon, York and Northamptonshire as successful adopters of this model but recently worrying figures have shown a 43% drop in usage in Devon and in 2016 both Suffolk and York showed drops!<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-37336025536304501522018-04-16T09:46:00.002-07:002018-04-16T09:46:48.309-07:00Proposals to Outsource Libraries in Herefordshire.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In Oct 2016 and then again in <a href="https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/13329/feedback_report_-_soft_market_test_for_museums_libraries_and_archives">Nov 17 Herefordshire CC issued a 'Soft Market Test'</a> for their museum, library and archive services. Basically this is to gauge market interest before making a final decision to outsource/privatise.<br />
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It now looks as if the council are ready to push ahead with the process with Halo Leisure Services Ltd, The Courtyard Trust, GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) and Vision Redbridge
Culture & Leisure Ltd in the running but concerns and doubts have been expressed in a recent <a href="http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/16157607.Fears_voiced_over_libraries__future/">article</a> and <a href="https://councillors.herefordshire.gov.uk/documents/s50056392/JAHL%20-%20Scrutiny%20Committee%20April%202018%20rev2.pdf">council submission</a> by the campaign group Joint Action for Herefordshire Libraries and by Cllr Gandy, a Tory, who not only mentioned the Carillion scandal but said;<br />
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As far as I can see the council is looking to cut £65k in the current financial year from the Libraries budget so from these figures and the fact that the council has been pushing the community-led model over the last few years it looks as if the decision to privatise libraries will be an ideological and not a fiscal one, which in my experience is more than often the case.<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-10049146732929849342018-02-25T06:28:00.000-08:002018-02-25T06:28:13.171-08:00Bromley/GLL, Cisco (another ethical partner?) & Wimbletech/renting desk space in libraries.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px;">Cisco, the California based systems/networking firm, are planning to provide <a href="http://commsbusiness.co.uk/news/cisco-launches-initiative-to-help-everyone-in-the-uk-develop-digital-skills/">digital skills training in English public libraries. </a>Manchester Libraries have already partnered with them and the Head of Service of Manchester Libraries just happens to be the President of the Society of Chief Librarians, what a coincidence!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.5px;">For arguments against renting out once public library space to entrepreneurs read me and others in a recent <a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/forest-hill-starts-renting-desk-space-576116">Bookseller article</a> re Forest Hill Community Library which by the way is leased and co-run by<a href="http://colouringinculture.org/blog/v22transnationalartwashing"> V22</a>, an offshore arts org!</span></span></div>
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-30831134251286128462018-02-17T03:43:00.000-08:002018-02-18T00:40:36.333-08:00Outsourcing Fundamentalism, Hasn't Herts heard of Carillion? and SCL/Taskforce backed vol-led 'libraries' conference comes to Sheffield.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Northamptonshire, along with Barnet one of the Tory outsourcing flagships, has had a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-42957438">Section 114 order </a>slapped on it which basically means it can't spend any more money on public services except apparently on crucial statutory services which apparently doesn't include libraries! A Tory council collapsing under Tory austerity cuts, who would have thunk it!!<br />
Oh and I forgot to mention that the ex-CEO of Northamptonshire CC is Dr Paul Blantern who just happens also to be the<a href="https://www.cilip.org.uk/?page=taskforcekimchair"> ex-Chair of the government's Libraries Taskforce.</a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c642439c-dfa1-11e4-a6c4-00144feab7de">Paul is a bit of an outsourcing fundamentalist</a>, who planned to shrink his council workforce from 4000 to 150 core staff by 2020 by outsourcing services to 4 'Next Generation' social enterprises. His council had previously moved libraries into a 'Wellbeing Community Interest Company' but also more recently had planned to cut/close libraries and hand over many of them to volunteers. When I asked him at a Speak up for Libraries conference a few years ago whether he thought that an outsourcing fundamentalist was a good choice to chair a Taskforce on public libraries he just laughed it off, hope he's stopped laughing although the £100k pay off he received from Northamptonshire might help lighten his mood.<br />
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<a href="https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council/consultations/libraries-and-archives/inspiring-libraries-2018-2021.aspx">Hertfordshire are 'consulting' on their libraries again</a> and in the spirit of the government's 'Digital by Default' agenda misspelled 'consultation' in the link meaning that you got 'page not found' when you clicked on it, it has I'm glad to report now been fixed. Oh and the 'consultation' asks folks whether they want their libraries to be privatised or cut/closed and apparently doesn't mention that libraries are a statutory service, wonder why?<br />
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The <a href="https://communitylibrariesnetwork.wordpress.com/">'Community Managed Libraries Peer Network'</a>, <i>"a network of peers from the full spectrum of community managed libraries from independently funded libraries to those who receive local authority support"</i> is holding its first <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waiting-list-community-managed-libraries-cml-conference-the-changing-landscape-tickets-42817460176">national conference in Sheffield on 20/3/18</a>. The network is funded by <a href="http://www.powertochange.org.uk/">'Power to Change',</a> <i>"an independent charitable trust that supports and develops community businesses in England"</i>, it's so independent that it lists DCLG & 'Big Society Capital' as partners! Basically it's just another front for the government's 'Localism' agenda, an ideological agenda that seeks to offload public services to suspect SocEnts and volunteers.<br />
The network is not only supported by Locality (the armed wing of the DCLG and the Localism movement) and the Upper Norwood Library Trust but also by the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) and the Libraries Taskforce! Some see the involvement of the SCL and Taskforce as a pragmatic move but i think it's absolutely shameful and indicative of the ethical void at the upper echelons of our library establishment.<br />
Oh and holding their first conference in Sheffield is a little ironic considering that volunteer-led 'libraries' there have seen a huge drop in usage!<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-25565734361519528312018-01-21T07:55:00.000-08:002018-01-21T07:55:07.844-08:00Carillion and LS&S; the dangers of library privatisation.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's amazing how many people didn't know that Carillion ran 4 library services in London.<br />
In 2012 Harrow, Ealing, Hounslow and Croydon outsourced their library services to John Laing Integrated Services who then sold the contract on to Carillion in 2013. In 2017 Hounslow terminated its contract with Carillion and in the last few days Croydon followed suit after news that the firm had been liquidated, but even before the final crash came about news was coming out of the borough that Carillion were doing a bad job and couldn't even pay their newspapers bills!<br />
Harrow and Ealing have yet to play their hands both claiming that it would be too costly to take the services back in-house and look likely to re-outsource with GLL being mentioned in some quarters.<br />
I've been keeping tabs on Carillion's library venture since 2013 and have consistently over this time heard from good sources that they were making a real hash of things. Right from the start Unison, the main union representing library workers, experienced barriers in negotiating recognition agreements which really isn't that surprising considering Carillion's involvement in a major blacklisting scandal. If you wanted tangible proof of their mismanagement you only had to visit Croydon Central Library, it was a mess with half-empty and untidy shelves, one of the worst children's libraries you've ever seen and a visible lack of staff or even self-service kiosks that worked, it was a disgrace.<br />
Anyway Carillion are no more and i live in hope that this has acted as a wake up call to councils, especially Labour ones, who are considering privatising such a crucial statutory service.<br />
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The US private library firm LS&S have recently lost a contract in Santa Clarita, California. Staffing shortages, unfilled vacancies, low morale and a drastic drop in usage have been cited as the reasons for termination of the contract. Now this didn't come as a surprise to my comrade Lori Rivas and other campaigners/users in Santa Clarita who not only put up an epic battle against privatisation in the first place but have also been raising issues and concerns since the contract was signed. Solidarity and congratulations to Lori et al.<br />
Last week, after a law suit and community protests, LS&S won the contract to run libraries in nearby Escondido. Campaigners have vowed to keep fighting and let's hope they do.<br />
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/17/london-libraries-assess-impact-of-carillion-collapse<br />
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-library-outsourcing-20180110-story.html<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-90736991312039016922017-09-10T07:56:00.000-07:002017-09-10T07:56:05.151-07:00Libraries SOS Day 19/10/17 - is it enough?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My union, Unison, have announced that <a href="https://www.unison.org.uk/events/sos-day/">19/10/17 will be a 'Save Our Services' day for public libraries. </a>They will be asking members to post photos/videos on Twitter and Facebook and will be asking local and national decision-makers to take action and councils to commit to providing comprehensive library services.<br />
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All great stuff but with 10,000 library workers and 800+ libraries (if you count volunteer-led 'libraries') lost since 2010 is this really enough?<br />
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In my opinion we need to do much much more, we need to organise;<br />
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We need to be seen to be fighting back like our sisters and brothers in Unite and the PCS. If we don't fight we'll never win.</div>
Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-19100282393710916222017-06-16T05:01:00.000-07:002017-06-16T05:01:07.227-07:00Unite the Union - Campaign to save Bromley libraries from privatisation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yesterday an<a href="http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/campaign-to-save-bromley-libraries-from-privatisation/"> announcement </a>appeared on the Unite website stating that thousands of households in Bromley would be receiving a <a href="http://www.unitetheunion.org/uploaded/documents/0221-7957-4%20Bromley%20A4%20bookletv211-31339.pdf">booklet</a> outlining the unions concerns about proposals to hand over the boroughs library service to Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL).<br />
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I'd advice anyone and everyone to read the booklet as it clearly outlines the issues and concerns that many of us have had regarding GLL since they acquired their first library contract in Greenwich. And solidarity to Onay Kasab (Regional Organiser), Unite members in Greenwich and Bromley and to the community activists there who've been leading a fantastic campaign against cuts, closures and privatisation.<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-60237882111836193132017-05-28T02:17:00.000-07:002017-05-28T11:15:01.400-07:00My initial observations and concerns re proposals to collocate Highgate Library and Jacksons Lane arts centre.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.haringey.gov.uk/highgate-library">Highgate Library </a>in Shepherds Hill, Haringey, is 110 years old and is housed in a lovely purpose built 'mock tudor' Edwardian building.<br />
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A few weeks ago an <a href="https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2017/jacksons-lane-announces-plan-merge-highgate-library/">article</a> appeared in The Stage announcing proposals to "merge" the library with the local <a href="https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/">Jacksons Lane</a> arts centre.<br />
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On the 17/5/17 the <a href="https://highgatelibraryactiongroup.wordpress.com/">'Highgate Library Action Group (HLAG)'</a> along with local councillors and architect Katy Marks hosted a "a round-table discussion", they then held their AGM on 24/5/17, among those who attended (invited to?) the AGM where the Leader of Haringey Council, Claire Kober, the Cabinet Member for Finance & Health, Jason Arthur and architect Katy Marks, so a pretty strong (heavy?) pro-merger presence.<br />
The AGM from what I've been told was a lively affair with some on HLAG, including the Chair, seemingly keen on the proposals and others, including a HLAG committee member and a regular library user not so keen. In fact a vigorous opposition has emerged with a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/haringey-council-save-highgate-library">petition</a>, twitter account (@HighgateStays) and FB page being set up. There have also been several articles in the local press.<br />
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I'm hoping to attend one of the consultation events taking place on 22/6/17 in order to hear more about the plans and to voice my concerns which at the moment are;<br />
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How far gone are the proposals? It seems that a lot of time and effort has been spent on this even before the so-called 'consultation' process has started with an Arts Council funding application submitted and an architect working on a feasibility study.<br />
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Is this just another <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/muswell-hill-row-over-plans-to-move-library-to-dark-and-oppressive-pub-a3398886.html">Muswell Hill Library scenario </a>with the council looking to sell off a valuable building?<br />
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Is this just another case of a 'third-sector' organisation, Jacksons Lane, muscling in on the cuts ravaged public sector in order to empire build?<br />
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What will the library service look like after the 'merger/collocation'? Will the arts centre be the dominant force and will the library end up as a provision and not a fully comprehensive service (a few shelves of books and some PCs with hub/arts staff rather than dedicated library staff)?<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-90937686357847533202017-05-07T03:08:00.003-07:002017-05-07T03:21:09.269-07:00Lewisham, Little Free Libraries & GLL/Lambeth/Bromley/Greenwich.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Surprise surprise book lending stats for Lewisham Libraries have fallen by 45% (1,146,461 books issued in 2009/10 and 635,065 in 2015/16), this is what happens when you hollow-out, deprofessionalise & privatise/amateurise your service.<br />
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Two Canadian Librarian/academics have just published a very interesting <a href="https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/17/32">paper </a>on the trademarked 'Little Free Libraries' (LFL) movement/business, apparently they're not just innocent little 'twee' book boxes, well who would have thought? Well me for one as their take on things mirrors my concerns about and experiences of the LFL movement in the UK. Oh and I even get a mention at the end of the paper, which is nice :-)<br />
And before you read it (and please please read the whole thing) remember that it was published in <a href="https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/index">'The Journal of Radical Librarianship'!</a><br />
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Ah! GLL again, don't you just love this cheeky charitable SocEnt! Private Eye report that their Lambeth 'library/gyms' plans were at an advanced state only days after the official consultation finished!<br />
GLL are also trying to sink their teeth into Bromley Libraries but Unite Regional Organiser, Onay Kasab along with community activists have got them in their sights and are leading a spirited fightback against proposals to privatise libraries there.<br />
And GLL/Greenwich Council again with another <a href="http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/15265252.Greenwich_bucks_national_trend_as_libraries_post_highest_annual_visits_on_record/">article</a> about footfall figures, i'm afraid i tend to take these kind of stories/figures with a pinch of salt especially when it comes to GLL/Greenwich as you can see by my<a href="http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/gll-and-most-visited-library-in-london.html"> blog post </a>from a couple of years ago.<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-35422748250539867542017-03-19T07:52:00.000-07:002017-03-19T07:52:26.918-07:00A strike in Bromley and staffless libraries in Canada.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After recently fighting off Carillion (blacklisting builders who run 4 other London library services) Bromley library workers/Unite members, backed by community activists, will now <a href="http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/15166094.Bromley_library_workers_to_walk_out_for_a_week_in_strike_over_privatisation/">take further action, from April 1st, </a>to stop GLL, and any other private firms bidding for the library contract. </span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Unite backed by community activists have led an inspirational campaign against cuts and privatisation. Massive solidarity to them and their inspirational organiser Onay Kasab.</span></div>
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-53423288231353208832017-03-04T02:14:00.001-08:002017-03-04T08:37:52.373-08:00Charitable (or not so?) Mutuals, 30% pay cuts and "misled" in Pembrokeshire. (oh! and a 'Conservative Home' contributor)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another day in libraryland and another <a href="https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/16/could-an-alternative-delivery-model-be-right-for-your-library-service/">Libraries Taskforce blog post</a>, this time pushing the governments agenda on spinning out public libraries as mutuals or to give them their full title 'maude's mock mutuals'.</span><br />
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The piece was written by Fiona Williams, Chief Executive of Explore York Libraries and Archive and outlines how they became a mutual, plugs some DCMS workshops in March and introduces to us a new consortium, <b>Optimo</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Optimo</b> consists of York Explore, Suffolk Libraries, Inspire (Nottinghamshire), Libraries Unlimited (Devon) and Mutual Ventures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mutual Ventures is a consultancy firm fronted by David Fairhurst and Andrew Laird, they claim to;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not only that but they also state that;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One the directors, David Fairhurst, in 2012 was appointed by the government as one of its 15 'mutuals ambassadors'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the other director, Andrew Laird, is a regular contributor to the 'Conservative Home' website and recently wrote a <a href="http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2016/10/andrew-laird-the-chancellors-productivity-drive-must-start-with-public-services.html">piece</a> for them in which he states;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #484848;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Theresa May has expressed a desire to see a more diverse public service market place with more public service mutuals. The Prime Minister has also spoken of the Government stepping up to repair markets where they are not working. So where better to start than by releasing the inner entrepreneur of our nurses, social workers and librarians? It’s the best way I can think of to kick start public service productivity."</i></span></span><br />
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So basically they're just another bunch of neo-liberals who've found a way of making money out of the government's ideological agenda to undermine and offload public services. Just another example of consultants circling the public sector carcass looking for bones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't this and the 30% pay cuts in Devon bring the mutuals and co-operative movement into disrepute?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Aren't Winckworth Sherwood just a firm of solicitors?"</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hear you say well yes they are but they've also found a way of making money out of the library crisis by advising councils on spinning out their services.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #403933;">"The team has particular expertise advising on charity options for </span><a href="http://www.wslaw.co.uk/core-areas/retail-leisure-and-hospitality" style="background-color: white; color: #bb133e; text-decoration: none;">leisure</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #403933;">, culture and heritage projects."</span></span></i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #403933;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">"To date the team have established over 75 arts, leisure and culture trusts operating successfully throughout the UK."</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #403933; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it looks as if things haven't quite gone to plan in <a href="http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/15097714.Council_seeking_money_back_after__misleading__consultants__outsourcing_plans/">Pembrokeshire </a>with the council asking for it's money back claiming that the firm "misled" them, oh dear!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"The council paid private consultant Winckworth Sherwood £20,000 to advise on how to save money by outsourcing libraries, leisure centres and sports pitches to a charitable trust."</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"I think we were very much misled by Winckworth Sherwood and I ask that we make this known to the consultants."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>See </i></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><a href="http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/winkworth-sherwood.html">http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/winkworth-sherwood.html</a> </i>for more on Winckworth Sherwood and their lead partner on spinning out public services, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Joanna Bussell.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-55253553699019831172017-02-04T02:28:00.003-08:002017-02-04T02:28:55.576-08:00Public Library usage stats down again, hmm I wonder why?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Before i start i'd just like to make it clear that i think footfall/usage stats are a noose around our necks and we should be concentrating more on social impact but sadly these blunt figures are what senior managers, council officers and councillors like to see on graphs.<br />
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According to a recent Guardian article and the latest DCMS data <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/library-cuts-reflected-in-30-drop-in-adult-visitors-over-a-decade">In 2005/6 48.2% of the population had used a library within that 12 month period and now it's down to 33.8%.</a> Without getting too bogged down in detail the possible reasons for this decline, especially since 2010, can be laid out as;<br />
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8000+ paid/trained staff culled. (inc many qualified and specialist staff)<br />
350+ libraries closed.<br />
12-15% vol-led.<br />
Opening hrs and budgets (inc book funds) slashed.<br />
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No public library standards in England.<br />
An ineffective distributive leadership model.<br />
5yrs wasted on an Inquiry and then a report/strategy that some say is already out of date and only re-enforces government policy.<br />
A minister, Rob Wilson, who has, like his predecessor Ed Vaizey, done nothing to intervene to halt cuts and closures.<br />
A government agenda to undermine and offload the public sector.<br />
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An increase in self-service and staffless libraries.<br />
An escalation in privatisation and commercialisation.<br />
An erosion of the public library ethos and mission.<br />
An over-focus on leisure.<br />
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But putting in its most simple terms if you have less staff and less libraries that are open for less time with less books then you have less usage, simples!<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-36021128382347738062017-01-08T06:40:00.000-08:002017-01-08T06:40:12.051-08:00There's a fightback taking place in Ireland against staffless libraries but why not in the UK?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While we (apart from resistance in Barnet, Calne etc) in the UK roll over and seemingly die re staffless opening in our libraries, in Ireland there's a fightback taking place.<br />
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In Nov 2016 members of the <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/librarians-vote-against-rollout-of-staffless-libraries-1.2889720">union Impact voted 9 to 1 </a> (<span style="background-color: white; color: #6c6c6c; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">Over 1,200 library workers backed industrial action by a margin of 9-1, with a voting turnout of 83%) </span>in favour of blocking the introduction of staffless opening in 23 libraries across the country. Concerns have also been raised by <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/staffless-libraries-ireland-2993352-Sep2016/">campaigners </a>and <a href="http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/227210/sinn-fein-opposes-staffless-hours-in-limerick-libraries.html">political representatives</a>.<br />
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Very recently an <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/staffless-libraries-membership-withdrawn-3093866-Jan2017/">FOI</a> found that 111 library members of one of the pilots in Offaly had seen their memberships temporarily withdrawn for "breaches of terms and conditions", these included drunkenness and tailgating. Exactly the same concerns can be seen in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmk6I8DdPM">video</a> made by Barnet campaigners.<br />
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So why the lack of concern and fightback in the UK?<br />
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Could it be that we're too cosy with the firms who push the product? After all we give them space at professional conferences/showcases and in our journals.<br />
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Could it be that we fall for the doublespeak and spin from councillors, politicians and the library establishment? We're regularly told that staffless opening is innovative and inclusive when it's really just another cost-cutting exercise that excludes children and young people (and possibly the elderly and those with disabilities)?<br />
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Could it be that those in power have lost sight of the core ethos/mission of public libraries and the true worth of paid/trained library workers, or just don't care?<br />
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We need research/data but i suspect that the only real way of doing this would be by submitting FOI's otherwise we'll be reliant on info supplied by those who have a vested interested in introducing the model.<br />
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But more than anything we desperately need our unions to step up and to oppose this latest attack on libraries, if Impact in Ireland can do it then why can't Unison et al?</div>
Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-26366400910774355262016-09-16T05:20:00.003-07:002016-09-16T05:20:46.674-07:00UNITE and Fight! (and build for the national demo)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Recently out of the depths of the normal library doom and gloom came a real glimmer of light, <a href="http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/bromley-councils-plan-to-run-down-and-break-up-local-libraries-falls-apart/">Unite</a>, the union, shoulder to shoulder with community activists won a victory against Bromley Council and the local volunteer centre, Community Links.</b><br />
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<i>"The ongoing feud over Bromley’s library services took another turn
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fragmentation of the borough’s library service”.</i><br />
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public service is in disarray. Now the fight is on to keep Bromley’s
libraries in public hands, but library workers will be able to campaign
as a single united force rather than a fragmented one.</i><br />
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last year. Many have taken over 30 days of strike action in the long
campaign. It’s a testament to their determination.”</i><br />
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<b>Just goes to show what unions, library workers and community activists can achieve when they unite and fight.<i> </i>That's why it's crucial that we build support and solidarity for the national demo on 05/11/16<i>, </i>we need a show of strength with thousands of library workers, library users, library campaigners and community activists marching shoulder to shoulder against the destructive, savage and ideological Austerity and Localism agendas. </b><br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-17220851848826745242016-07-22T11:52:00.000-07:002016-07-22T11:54:23.658-07:00Library Workers of the World Strike and Fight!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There's a saying in libraryland that if library workers are on strike then things must be really bad, well things are really really really bad!<br />
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For the last 3 or so weeks <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-of-mississauga-library-workers-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-strike-1.3690420">library workers in Mississauga</a>, Canada, have been striking for a better pay deal and terms and conditions. For the last two years they've been offered 0.5% and with 50% of the library workforce on part-time contracts with no holiday or sick allowances their union branch CUPE Local 1989 decided emough was enough and brought their members out. With wonderful support from their local community and library users they've managed to secure a better deal albeit a tentative one.<br />
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Their <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/05/02/toronto-library-workers-reach-tentative-deal.html">CUPE Local 4948 comrades in Toronto</a>, lead by the wonderful Maureen O'Reilly, won a similar battle earlier in the year.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14627994.Council_workers_in_Bromley_take_strike_action_to__defend_public_services_/">Library workers in Bromley</a> started a weeks strike action on 16/7/16 against the mass privatisation and amateurisation of their service. With 87% YES vote in a ballot and a brilliantly organised community campaign they're taking the fight directly to the doors of the hard-right Bromley Council which seems more interested in investing money in commercial property than properly funding statutory services! The strike culminates in a March through Bromley on 23/7/16.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36350323">Library workers in Lewisham</a> also took strike action recently and held a magnificent march in which i was proud and honoured to be asked to speak at. They went on strike to try and stop the Council from making more cuts and handing their libraries over to volunteers, a disastrous policy which has resulted in drops in usage at the existing volunteer -led 'libraries' of 60-90%.<br />
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And not forgetting my comrades at Barnet and Lambeth Unison who're still leading magnificent campaigns/strikes/marches/protests/occupations etc against cuts and privatisation.<br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-26103292403094095882016-07-22T06:57:00.003-07:002016-07-22T06:57:55.759-07:00The DCMS & Civil Society (and Ed!)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Recently an announcement was made by the government that could have a fundamental effect on the future of public libraries in the UK, responsibility for the government's 'Civil Society' (Charities, SocEnts, Mutuals etc) agenda has shifted from the Cabinet Office to the DCMS. The Minister involved is Rob Wilson who has also been given the DCMS libraries brief. This change takes place shortly after a ministerial re-shuffle that saw John Whittingdale being replaced by Karen Bradley and Ed Vaizey by Matt Hancock.<br />
This move is seen by many as an attempt by the government to re-position and re-invigorate (or even demote) their 'Big Society' agenda;<br />
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<i>"Under cover of darkness the Office for Civil Society, a shadow of its
former self, slips, almost unnoticed, out of the Cabinet Office,
shuffles across Whitehall and finds refuge in the cavernous DCMS."</i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/blogs/content/22119/the_rise_and_fall_of_the_office_for_civil_society">http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/blogs/content/22119/the_rise_and_fall_of_the_office_for_civil_society </a></i><br />
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<i><b>But why might all this be bad news for public libraries?</b> </i>Well although we've only got a handful of library mutuals we've definitely seen a push towards offloading library services to Social Enterprises, Charitable Trusts etc and with the Minister for Civil Society now holding the libraries brief within the DCMS I would be very surprised if their wasn't an escalation. Add to this the fact that the new 'Libraries Minister', Matt Hancock, is a Suffolk MP and that Suffolk Libraries are an Independent & Provident Society (IPS) then you can start to see why I'm getting twitchy.<br />
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And as for Ed Vaizey, his tenure as the longest serving 'Libraries Minister' was a complete and utter disaster for public library services, users and staff. During his reign we lost 8000 paid/trained library staff, 343-600+ libraries (figure depends on whether you count volunteer-led 'libraries' as closed); saw a 93% increase in volunteers, a huge decrease in budgets/opening hours and an escalation in privatisation/commercialisation. He also treated campaigners with contempt, blocking them on twitter and breaking his promise to debate with them in a public meeting.<br />
Although he was very vocal about library cuts/closures in opposition he refused to intervene or speak out when in power, a total dereliction of his duties and leadership remit under the 1964 Act.</div>
Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-54077892548313098712016-06-11T01:55:00.000-07:002016-06-11T01:55:46.531-07:00Bromley Unite Save our Services March 23/7/16<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-85569819666118300492016-05-17T10:06:00.000-07:002016-05-17T10:11:01.289-07:00'Lewisham March For Libraries' 21/5/16<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Assemble 12 midday<br />Limes Grove - next to Lewisham Library</b><br />
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<b>March to Town Hall</b> for rally with speakers including :<br />
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<b>Carnegie Library occupier from Lambeth<br />Alan Wylie - Libraries campaigner<br />Heather Wakefield - Unison</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please show solidarity and send messages of support to <a href="mailto:savelewishamlibraries@gmail.com">savelewishamlibraries@gmail.com</a> , join them on the march if you can and sign the petition;</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/lewisham-council-save-lewisham-libraries">https://www.change.org/p/lewisham-council-save-lewisham-libraries</a></div>
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-38622919361349276742016-05-02T11:23:00.002-07:002016-05-02T11:23:30.394-07:00The feeling's not mutual and Staffless in Calne?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<u><b> Library Mutuals</b></u><br />
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In case you missed it another big library service spun-out from public control recently, Devon Libraries is now 'Libraries Unlimited'. And according to their <a href="https://librariesunlimited.org.uk/about/our-company/">website </a>'Libraries Unlimited' is;<br />
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<i>"a new and independent staff and community-owned
social enterprise, established in April 2016 with the support of Devon
County Council. We are a company limited by guarantee with charitable
status pending. Our formally registered name is Libraries Unlimited
South West."</i><br />
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They were widely congratulated on social media, by the government and members of the Taskforce mainly, and will now join Suffolk, York and Dudley (2016?) in the brave new world of<i> </i>spun-out library services.<br />
But it appears that not is all what it seems in 'Maude's Mock Mutuals Bargain Land', my Voices for the Library colleague Ian Clark, in response to a tweet stating that the Suffolk 'mutual' was "thriving", recently found out via an FOI that Suffolk (much touted by Sieghart etc) has seen a decrease in usage and by just looking at York's performance figures (<a href="https://www.exploreyork.org.uk/client/search/asset/1016903">issues</a> & <a href="https://www.exploreyork.org.uk/client/search/asset/1016902">visits</a>) anyone can see that there's been a decrease in usage in nearly all of York's branches, the Central Library and the Mobile service seem to be propping up the stats. I'll admit that it's still early days and usage stats aren't everything but I'm sure you'll agree that a drop in usage is hardly a definition of thriving.<br />
Mutulisation in the public sector is really no more than a gun to the head for most employees, the <i>"run it or we'll close it"</i> blackmail threat unloved of most library 'volunteers'. I wish staff and users well but really can't endorse or approve of this risky & unaccountable method of privatisation. For more on the governments mutuals agenda see my earlier post<br />
<a href="http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/mutuals.html">http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/mutuals.html</a><br />
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<u><b>Staffless in Calne </b></u><br />
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Well done to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CalneLabour/">Calne Labour Party</a> et al for putting up such a spirited fight against the introduction of <a href="http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/14287348.Calne_Library_set_to_trial_no_staff_system/?ref=mr&lp=13">staffless opening hours in their local library. </a><br />
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<i>"Members of the newly formed Calne Labour Party handed out leaflets
outside the library on Saturday (Feb 13) to protest the reduction of
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Oliver Boaler, co-founder of the party, said: “Staff are essential to
the library’s smooth running. They not only help library users choose
books, use the computers and deal with queries, their supervision means
the library always feels safe and is kept tidy.
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“I worry about someone having a fall or somebody causing damage. A
response to this wouldn’t be quick enough with the use of CCTV.” </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/wp/2016/03/31/unstaffed-libraries-unsafe-and-unproven/#more-4543">http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/wp/2016/03/31/unstaffed-libraries-unsafe-and-unproven/#more-4543</a><br />
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<a href="http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/unstaffed%20libraries">http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/unstaffed%20libraries</a><br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-21975105430196998272016-03-11T09:54:00.000-08:002016-03-11T09:54:43.918-08:00Public Libraries the DWP, Police and Fire services.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well folks welcome back to the crazy world of libraries during wartime (otherwise known as austerity!).<br />
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The prospect (and reality) of basing Police officers in static libraries has been with us for some time but recently I spotted what I thought was a<a href="https://new.shropshire.gov.uk/libraries/library-events/shrewsbury-library-west-mercia-police-use-the-mobile-library-to-deliver-policing-mobile-route-10/"> new 'mobile' </a>development in Shropshire until that is I discovered this Norfolk based <a href="http://www.norfolk.police.uk/newsevents/newsstories/2010/september/policetravelonlibrarybus.aspx">story from 2010 </a>!<br />
Now the arguments against (invasion of trusted/safe public space, privacy/spying, just another cuts based shoe-horning exercise etc) and for (better public access?!?) police officers in libraries are well rehearsed but when you then find out that we will also be sharing with <a href="http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14328976.Libraries_could_co_locate_with_fire_stations/">fire stations</a> and <a href="http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/dwp-job-advisers-to-be-placed-in-libraries-and-schools">DWP 'advisers' </a>you start to think "WTF?!?!"<br />
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I can imagine the discussion between councillors before deciding on sharing with the Fire Service;<br />
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<i>"what are we discussing tonight?"</i><br />
<i>"library cuts"</i><br />
<i>"oh i haven't used a library in years"</i><br />
<i>"neither have I"</i><br />
<i>"what are we proposing?"</i><br />
<i>"to have a 'library presence' in our fire stations"</i><br />
<i>"ooh great idea, that'll come in handy when we burn the books"</i><br />
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And as for the decision to place DWP 'advisers' in libraries well all I can say is the remaining part of the community that hasn't been alienated by the Police presence and the constant shrieking of fire sirens will definitely be alienated by the threat of sanctions due to missing their appointments due to the library only being open for 5 hrs a week due to all the staff being replaced by volunteers or the <a href="http://dontprivatiselibraries.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/unstaffed%20libraries">'open+' staffless library</a> failing due to crappy library software glitches. (see <a href="http://wwwbrokenbarnet.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/barnet-libraries-meltdown-we-apologise.html">recent goings on in Barnet</a>)<br />
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But seriously folks all these decisions are purely ideological and cuts based and will seriously undermine and erode the concept of libraries as safe & trusted public spaces (please don't get me started on bloody <a href="http://infoism.co.uk/2015/12/why-are-barclays-in-our-libraries/">'Digital Eagles'</a>) For similar concerns re DWP 'advisers' being embedded in GP surgeries see;<br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/02/activists-anger-scheme-embed-job-coaches-in-gp-surgeries">http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/02/activists-anger-scheme-embed-job-coaches-in-gp-surgeries</a><br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-12714539575620410282016-02-12T13:13:00.000-08:002016-02-12T13:13:02.670-08:00Me and the amazing George speaking at #SUFLlobby16<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
George Hamerton loves libraries, he loves them so much he's Chief Pupil Librarian at his school library and he came all the way to London on Tuesday to tell us how much he loves them at the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/09/library-campaigners-descend-on-parliament-to-defend-public-funding">Speak up for Libraries Rally and Lobby of Parliament</a>, you can hear him (and me) here;<br />
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<a href="http://wembleymatters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/speak-up-for-libraries-will-our-mps.html">http://wembleymatters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/speak-up-for-libraries-will-our-mps.html</a><br />
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the transcript of my speech can be found at;<br />
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<a href="http://www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk/2016/02/speak-up-for-libraries-crisis-or-opportunity/">http://www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk/2016/02/speak-up-for-libraries-crisis-or-opportunity/</a><br />
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-52352211690174647482016-02-12T12:07:00.000-08:002016-02-12T12:07:16.542-08:00Solidarity to Lambeth, Greenwich and Bromley Library Workers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week library workers in Lambeth (Unison), Greenwich (Unite) and Bromley (Unite) have all taken strike action against cuts, privatisation and paid/trained staff being replaced by volunteers.<br />
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On Monday Lambeth Unison was successful in bringing out it's members and <a href="http://lambeth-unison.org/2016/02/08/rock-solid-strike-across-lambeth-libraries-all-libraries-closed/">closing all libraries in the borough.</a> This is part of a long running dispute over <a href="http://lambeth-unison.org/2016/01/24/policy-save-our-libraries/">cuts to the service </a>and proposals to turn 3 libraries into <a href="http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2016/01/internal-labour-opposition-to-book-ish-gyms-grows-as-local-labour-branch-meetings-pass-motions-condemning-the-move/">"bookish gyms"</a> run by <a href="http://uniteforpublicservices.org/gonewrong.php">Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL)</a><br />
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Libaries in Bromley were closed as a result of Unite's members industrial action and Unite is also mobilising its members in Greenwich. There was a great turnout of striking members outside of Bromley South station, which was followed with a rally and march along the high street.</div>
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Alan Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663076592553652836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957140491776029712.post-70723503780305982612016-01-28T10:41:00.001-08:002016-01-28T10:41:48.938-08:00Speak up for Libraries lobby of Parliament 9/2/16 and Early Day Motion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Best-seller Jake Arnott is the latest writer to sign up for the Speak Up For Libraries (SUFL) lobby of Parliament on 9 February.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">‘Throughout our history,’</span> he says, ‘the library has proved to be the most effective and resilient memory system for our culture and civilisation.</div>
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‘The public library creates a collective consciousness. Any attack on it simply adds to a social dementia.’</div>
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The day begins with a public rally at Central Hall, Westminster (10am-1pm), with a line-up of speakers chaired by campaigning author Alan Gibbons. All welcome, whether joining a lobby or not.</div>
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Alan’s Campaign for the Book is part of the SUFL alliance, alongside librarians’ professional association CILIP, campaigners’ charity The Library Campaign, UNISON and Voices for the Library.</div>
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Supporters from as far away as Gateshead, Shropshire, Lancashire and Lincolnshire will then descend on the Commons to lobby MPs to focus on the root cause of libraries’ grim situation – apathy and ignorance in local and central government.</div>
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‘These people are fighting hard locally to keep libraries alive. They are desperate to show this is a major issue for the whole nation,’ says Laura Swaffield of The Library Campaign.</div>
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‘And it’s not too late for others to join us.’</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eve Ainsworth</span> (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seven Days, The Blog of Maisy Malone</em>) – just launching her latest novel <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Crush</em> with Scholastic (‘Love hurts… but should it hurt this much?’).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Philip Ardagh</span>, multiple award-winning comic writer and dramatist (the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grubtown Tales, Eddie Dickens & The Grunts </em>series) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Guardian</em> book reviewer and the loudest beard in literature.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jake Arnott</span> (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Long Firm, He Kills Coppers, truecrime, Johnny Come Home, The Devil’s Paintbrush, The House of Rumour</em>) – the first two made into successful TV serials.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cathy Cassidy</span>, million selling Queen of Teen award winner (the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chocolate Box Girls</em> series, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Looking-Glass Girl</em>) – breaking off from a schools and libraries tour to promote her new paperbacks (Penguin Random House).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">John Dougherty</span>, irrepressible children’s writer (the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face</em> series) – singing by special request his classic lament ‘What’s Wrong with [libraries minister] Ed Vaizey?’</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dawn Finch</span>, librarian, literacy consultant and best-selling author (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skara Brae, Brotherhood of Shades, The Book of Worth</em>) – speaking here as President of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan Gibbons</span>, million-selling, multiple award-winning children’s writer (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shadow of the Minotaur, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">End Game, Hate</em>) – tireless campaigner and international speaker.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Laura Swaffield & Elizabeth Ash</span>, The Library Campaign.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heather Wakefield</span>, head of local government, UNISON.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan Wylie</span>, Voices for the Library.</li>
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Libraries matter. They matter to all communities, but especially to those in the most deprived areas. And they matter to the little girl inside this author who discovered adventures and magic within a wonderful, and often under appreciated, haven.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eve Ainsworth</span></div>
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The local library is a port of call for: books, local information, human contact, internet access, newspapers and magazines, a safe environment, a quiet environment, help with form-filling, advice, and the countless other little things that all add up to bigger things. Speak up for libraries before there’s nothing left to shout about.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Philip Ardagh</span></div>
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Throughout our history the library has proved to be the most effective and resilient memory system for our culture and civilisation. The public library creates a collective consciousness. Any attack on it simply adds to a social dementia.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jake Arnott</span></div>
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Without libraries, I would never have had access to books as a child, would never had stood a chance of following my dreams. Now our public libraries are being closed all around us; it’s a national scandal, and we must stand together against these closures, for the sake of our children and the future of our country.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cathy Cassidy</span></div>
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If we want a society that is literate, cultured, educated and compassionate, then a well-funded, professionally-staffed public library service is not a luxury. It is a necessity. And the destruction of service that our government is allowing is quite simply immoral.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">John Dougherty</span></div>
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Libraries are the cornerstone of a well-informed society. I strongly believe that there is not a single person working at high level in their field who has not at some point turned to a library for help. It’s not rocket science, but without libraries there will be no rocket science.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dawn Finch</span></div>
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The public library service is being hollowed out. This is its worst crisis. Action is urgently needed to secure its future.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan Gibbons</span></div>
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(i) Over 100 were lost last year; at least 441 have closed in the past five years; 149 are currently under threat, with new threats announced almost daily.</div>
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(ii) Most surviving libraries are suffering severe cuts to staff, book funds and opening hours. Since 2010 there has been a 22% drop in staff (full time equivalents), including a 32% drop in professional staff and a 93% rise in volunteers (though on average each works just 38 hours per year).The skills, knowledge base and quality of service available to library users is being seriously eroded.</div>
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(iii) The future looks as bad – or worse. After last year’s Spending Review, the Local Government Association commented: ‘Even if councils stopped filling in potholes, maintaining parks, closed all children’s centres, libraries, museums, leisure centres and turned off every street light, they will not have saved enough money to plug the financial black hole they face by2020.’</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">sign the Early Day Motion supporting libraries and the lobby</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">acknowledge the importance of public libraries</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">call on government to do its job by producing statutory guidance on standards, and a development programme</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">call on local authorities to ensure adequate funding.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Early Day Motion:</span></li>
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That this house recognises that public libraries are hugely important to our communities; acknowledges that many have already closed and many more are under threat; welcomes the Speak Up For Libraries lobby of Parliament in support of the UK’s public library service on 9 February 2016; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that councils have enough money to provide well staffed quality library services; to enforce the law that says local authorities must provide a comprehensive and efficient library service; to implement policy which secures people’s statutory rights to a quality library service and gives libraries a long-term future by including a programme of library development and modernisation in the 2016-2020 DCMS Business Plan.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #771791;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PRESS CONTACTS:</span></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Campaign for the Book: Alan Gibbons 07889 981739 ; mygibbo@gmail.com</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Author interviews + The Library Campaign: Laura Swaffield, 07914 491145; lswaffield1@gmail.com</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">CILIP: Cat Cooper, 020 7255 0653 (mobile 07867 455070); cat.cooper@cilip.org.uk</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">UNISON: Fatima Ayad, 020 7121 5255; press@unison.co.uk</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Voices for the Library: Lauren Smith, 07503 173894; media@voicesforthelibrary.org.uk</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #771791;">DETAILS:</span> <a href="http://speakupforlibraries.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #da4453; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">http://speakupforlibraries.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #771791;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRAVEL COSTS</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span>The Library Campaign will consider giving lobbyists financial support for travel costs if they are otherwise unable to attend the lobby. Contact:<a href="mailto:thelibrarycampaign@gmail.com" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #da4453; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">thelibrarycampaign@gmail.com</a> or 020 8651 9552 / 07968 491355.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Speak Up For Libraries is a coalition of organisations and campaigners working to protect libraries and library staff, now and in the future.</span></div>
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Website: <a href="http://www.speakupforlibraries.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #da4453; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">www.speakupforlibraries.org</a></div>
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakUp4Libs" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #da4453; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">@SpeakUp4Libs</a> using lobby hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23SUFLlobby16&src=typd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #da4453; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">#SUFLlobby16</a></div>
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