I think that's outrageous - they should be named and shamed.
John Briggs
On 20/06/2013 14:16, Fiona Allison wrote:
> My local library service, a large county council, this year is charging
> £30 for an annual subscription for internet use or £18.00 for a six
> month subscription.
> Pay as you go charges are £2.50 for 1 hour; £1.25 for 30 mins or 75p for
> 15 mins.
> These have not increased since I first started having to pay three years
> ago, but the annual subscription has increased from £18.00 to the £30 in
> that time. The last two years have seen a £5.00 increase each year.
> Free access is given to Jobseekers if they have a JSA form, but when I
> added to the number of professional librarians without a job three years
> ago, I wasn't eligible for benefits, and so had to pay the full
> subscription for my internet job hunting and access, even though I was
> unemployed.
> The outer London borough I used to work in ran, and still does, some
> Back to Work weekly sessions for job seekers, a need that is met where I
> live, not by the library service but a charity based IT learning centre
> funded by the Big Lottery and run by, primarily, volunteers.
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