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By accident I tuned into BBC Radio 4 and heard Lord McIntosh's good response! I doubt whether there is anyone more critical than myself of public libraries but in these situations I always suspect that the authors of such reports are clueless or being paid by a particular group e.g.I was not impressed with the document produced by the Demos group.
"Hanstock, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:(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:
C 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:
Terry Hanstock
Nottingham Trent University
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