On 13 Jul 2004, at 17:26, Bob McKee wrote:
> ... it doesn't deal with two other central issues for which funding is
> badly needed in many areas - the legacy of years of under-investment
> in book budgets and buildings. The Spending Review does nothing about
> these.”
The penny hasn't dropped and neither have the pounds.
Why?
Because good publicity (LIS successes too numerous to mention) has
little or no effect and bad publicity (Coates being the latest) seems
to resonate with our paymasters only too well.
Even Coates drew attention to poor stock holdings, even if he did think
we could replenish by selling off the bricks salvaged from our
crumbling buildings.
Personally I think we're far too civilised in public as a professional
group. It may go against the grain and we don't have to go to extremes
(I don't want my subs going towards horses' heads for example), but
where is the exploding passion, the anger, the marches, the withdrawal
of cooperation.
We know we're good at what we do.
Unfortunately people think we're good.
John
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