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ACE 'will not warn on libraries'

Publication Date: Fri, 09/11/2012 - 09:00

The Arts Council England libraries director Nicky Morgan has said it is not the organisation's role to feed information on potential problem areas for libraries back to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, as recommended in the library report published by the CMS select committee this week (5th November).

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Arts Council England | DCMS | Home | Joshua Farrington | MLA | Nicky Morgan | select committee | Voices for the Library
Money talks

Publication Date: Mon, 25/07/2011 - 12:01

The last time I contributed to these columns, I discussed the demise of the professional local government officer and the rise of the bureaucratic manager, with a focus on management objectives, targets and performance measures. Within local councils this shift has fundamentally changed the relationship between elected councillors and their...

blog | CILIP | DCMS | Home | John Pateman | libraries | MLA
Morgan to be Arts Council libraries director

Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 09:59

Nicola Morgan is to be the libraries director at the Arts Council.

Morgan is currently programme manager, sector improvement at the Museums, Libraries and Archives council, which winds up this autumn. She will take up her new post on 1st October.

Morgan commented: "I am looking forward to this exciting new chapter at...

Arts Council | Benedicte Page | Home | libraries | MLA
Community-run libraries ‘could charge’

Publication Date: Fri, 24/06/2011 - 10:05

Book borrowers at community-run libraries could be charged for the privilege in future, according to guidance issued by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).

The Department for Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) asked the MLA in March to prepare guidance for local authorities looking to restructure their library services....

Benedicte Page | DCMS | Desmond Clarke | Ed Vaizey | Fight for Libraries | Home | Jeremy Hunt | libraries | MLA
Library bodies warn publishers off 'retrenchment' over e-book lending

Publication Date: Thu, 17/03/2011 - 09:23

The Society of Chief Librarians and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council have signed a joint position on e-book lending in libraries, saying the Publisher Association's baseline position has "limited practical use" for customers and warning publishers off putting new restrictions on remote downloading of e-books.
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Charlotte Williams | e-books | Home | libraries | MLA | pa | Richard Mollet
MLA to make funding decisions for 2011/12

Publication Date: Mon, 07/02/2011 - 12:24

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is to retain responsibility for 2011/12 funding decisions, with Arts Council England (ACE) taking on responsibility for decisions with a longer-term impact.

The news comes ahead of the MLA's 2011/12 budget, which is released on 11th February.

Chief executive of Arts Council...

Alan Davey | Arts Council | Charlotte Williams | libraries | MLA | Museum Libraries and Archives Council
Gibbons calls for public debate on libraries

Publication Date: Tue, 18/01/2011 - 16:02

Campaigner Alan Gibbons has called for a "robust" public debate on the library service between MLA chief executive Roy Clare and culture minister Ed Vaizey on the one hand and campaigners from what he describes as "the growing Save Our Libraries movement" on the other.

Gibbons' call comes following a furore over a...

Alan Gibbons | Benedicte Page | Fight for Libraries | Home | libraries | MLA | Roy Clare
Clare cautions 'prudence' over MLA grants

Publication Date: Thu, 02/12/2010 - 07:29

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, which will close by March 2012, has notified all employees that they are "at risk" of redundancy and started a four-month period of formal consultation.

The MLA also warned library bodies that the process for deciding future grant funding remains to be agreed, and they should stay...

Benedicte Page | Ed Vaizey | libraries | MLA | Roy Clare
DCMS makes play for Arts Council to take on MLA's library work

Publication Date: Tue, 23/11/2010 - 15:07

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council's library development work is "likely" to go to Arts Council England (ACE) by end of March 2012, culture minister Ed Vaizey has announced. The MLA's Renaissance in the Regions project for museums would also transfer to ACE.

However Alan Davey, chief executive of Arts Council...

Benedicte Page | Ed Vaizey | Home | libraries | MLA | Roy Clare
Books key to libraries, says MLA survey

Publication Date: Mon, 22/11/2010 - 16:33

Books remain the main reason why most people use libraries, according to a new research study published by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).

Seventy-six per cent of users go to libraries because of their love of reading, found the study, carried out by Shared Intelligence and Ipsos MORI. Meanwhile 44% go for study, and...

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