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Library - News

Last updated 11.09.09

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Author helps save local library

Children's author Nick Arnold has helped to save his local library from closure in Appledore, Devon, after a four-year community...

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The scramble to digitise

The digitising of human knowledge is the most profound cultural event since the invention of...

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Authors attack Lambeth librarian cuts

The manager at the centre of a controversial library review in Lambeth has left the...

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Library - In Depth

Last updated 26.10.07

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Opening shots from the Admiral

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is used to talking in optimistic PR terms about "engagement", "leadership"and "innovation"—but its new chief executive Roy Clare will not brook any blather.When...

All change in library supply

Kevin Holden, m.d. of Holt Jackson library suppliers, arrived back from his holiday last week to news that the second of his two main competitors had been bought out by a big-muscle wholesaler. Gardners' acquisition of Askews is a huge shift...

Surfing the bookshelves

Katherine RushtonJulie Distin, the area operational manager in charge of Newquay Library, recalls its former décor with a grimace: "It was horrible. The walls were all dark wood tongue and groove, and the shelves were a mismatch of...


Library - Blogs

Last updated 13.09.07

TIM COATES

Ministers misbriefed

Libraries need more books, but they are unlikely to get them while ministers continue to quote wrong information.

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Katherine Rushton

Libraries need a line in the sand

The lack of a clear national mandate for the UK public library service risks death by a...

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Katherine Rushton

Bob McKee and the 'busted flush'

The battle lines used to be quite easy to draw in the library sector, but CILIP chairman Bob...

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