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Hertfordshire, Cornwall and West Sussex are the latest councils to come under the spotlight for planned cuts to their public library service.
Hertfordshire has begun a consultation on efficiency savings, proposing a cutback of a third in library opening hours in a bid to avoid closures, according to a BBC">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-11626827">BBC report.
Council leader Robert Gordon said he planned "to stagger opening hours so that, even when your most local library is closed, another relatively local one will be open."
Meanwhile Cornwall Council is set to discuss budget proposals today (27th October) involving potentially radical cuts to its library service. A document leaked to the BBC">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/grahamsmith/2010/10/cornwalls_cuts_budget.htm... last week suggested the proposals could reduce Cornwall's service to as few as "nine key locations", with a potential 60 posts made redundant.
Five staff members are likely to go in the West Sussex library service, according to a report in The">http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8461522.Sussex_library_staff_face_axe/">The Argus.
Other staff posts could suffer demotion, as part of a proposed restructure aimed at saving £318,000 a year.