Last night I attended the meeting about threats to the local public
library in the village of Bar Hill, Cambridge. It was very well attended
(audience was about 5 times that expected, if the number of chairs laid
out at the start was anything to go by) and included many people with
excellent arguments to present.
It all boiled down to the village being one of several amongst the
villages that ring the city where the library is very popular, very well
used, but in places that are too affluent to score on the "social need"
part of the equation.
Libraries in the region will be run by a charitable trust along with
adult learning; back-office functions will be shared by several
authorities in the Eastern Region.
The threatened libraries are in danger of closure unless sufficient
funding comes in from fund-raising, sponsors and other users of the
library buildings and facilities (Bar Hill has shared its building with
the Post Office for some time).
There was a call for volunteers to fund-raise and staff the library. The
volunteers are, I gather, to be trained by the residual professional
staff but there is no budget for the training.
I await further developments.
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Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI
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