Category: #savelibraries
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The CMS Inquiry into Library Closures
The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has published the written evidence submitted to its Inquiry into Library Closures, over 600 pages. Tomorrow the first oral evidence is heard, with Voices for the Library's Abigail Barker appearing before the committee, along with Miranda McKearney of The Reading Agency, Andrew Coburn of The Library Campaign and…
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Connectedness
‘The last thing I’ll say today begins with a recollection of my time as a library assistant – a pretty lowly form of life – in Charing Cross Road library, part of Westminster city libraries, in the early seventies. I’m a romantic. I’m easily swayed by my imagination. And one of the things that used…
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Ian McMillan banned from speaking in a Sheffield library
It's not just Mubarak's police state that tries to silence writers. Ian McMillan, presenter of the Verb on Radio 3, has been banned from running a creative writing workshop at Upperthorpe library in Sheffield, the SINTO blog reports. There's no justification given on Sheffield council's website. It is curious that this should happen in Sheffield…