Close to 100 Greenwich library workers are on strike over plans to privatise the borough's library services. The library staff, all Unite union members, began five days of industrial action on Friday (27th April).

A further day of strike action is planned for 11th May.

Greenwich council wants to transfer its library...

Volunteers in libraries are nothing new. Members of the public have been involved in the lives of their local branches for years, and few would argue that they have not enhanced the service. Volunteers have been especially helpful in libraries’ outreach work—in taking books to housebound users, for instance, or helping with...

Surrey residents have won their High Court judicial review challenge against council plans to remove paid staff from 10 of the county's libraries.

In a judgement handed down this morning (3rd April), the council's decision was found unlawful. Mr Justice Wilkie said actions by the council had fallen "substantially short...

Shadow culture minister MP Dan Jarvis has warned Ed Vaizey risks becoming the “Dr Beeching” of libraries as the culture minister prepares to give evidence at the DCMS select enquiry and library campaigners make their way to a mass rally in London.

In a speech Jarvis intends to give at the Methodist Central Hall rally this...