..... but why would you, as a public library, let a bookseller examine all
your data
anyway?
Terry
Thinking of starting a charity for those with a more grown-up holistic view
of libraries
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>A few errors in the debate, and also how many public libraries would have
>volunteered to have Tim Coates examine all their date, financial etc?
>f
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>From: "Hanstock, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:00 AM
>Subject: The Lords on Libri
>
>
>(Apologies for cross posting)
>
>There was a short debate on the Libri Report in the House of Lords
>yesterday which included the following comment from Lord McIntosh:
>
> Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, I would prefer to
>call my meeting in June a seminar rather than a summit. I think that
>summit is a bit grand. I will not call chief executives and leaders of
>councils to book; I will invite them to be present, which I think is
>more constructive. I will also invite Tim Coates, the author of the
>Libri report, and he will have an opportunity to defend his statements
>about the decline of libraries, some of which I have a good deal of
>doubt about.
>
>The full text is here:
>
>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds04/te
>xt/40506-01.htm#40506-01_star0
>
>
>Terry Hanstock
>
>Nottingham Trent University
>
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