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Miriam, your last point is the most important one. Gershon isn't a plot particularly directed at libraries - all services are required to make efficiency savings, and this would be required of libraries whether or not we improved the efficiency of procurement. The crucial thing therefore is to make the best advocacy case we can to local government, on a national basis but also individually by services at local level, to be allowed to retain cashable savings and reinvest them. And that's up to all of us to do. Mike Clarke Director London Libraries Development Agency 35 St Martin's Street London WC2H 7HP tel: 020 7641 5244 fax: 020 7641 5266 email: [log in to unmask] www.llda.org.uk Find out what's going on in London's libraries at www.londonlibraries.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: Palfrey, Miriam [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 23 August 2006 11:35 To: Mike Clarke; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: Staffing Bib Services It contradicts itself several times, disregards important factors as irrelevant and uses jargon and acronyms without explaining their meaning. As a public document it is supposed to be clearly understood and I stand by my statement that it is horribly written. I agree that change is needed but the proposals that are made here are not going to help public libraries. Lets ignore (as the report does) the fact that all of our existing stock would need to be re-labelled and re-catalogued, lets disregard the fact that the software they insist will be our salvation does not exist and would have to be built from scratch (in less than two years). Even if public libraries bought titles on a national scale they would not be able to negotiate the bulk discounts on the scale of national book chains. Imagining that all the potential flaws I see in the scheme are negotiated, do you really imagine that local authorities are going to plough savings back into libraries? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Clarke [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 23 August 2006 11:11 To: Palfrey, Miriam; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: Staffing Bib Services I didn't find the report particularly horribly written. It sets out some clear findings and a rationale for change. Colleagues may not agree with all the detail, but the fact is, with falling issues and increasing costs, we need to make some changes to the way we do things - and not just accept 'managed decline'. People have been asking for leadership in the sector for some time - here's an example of it starting to happen. Mike Clarke Director London Libraries Development Agency 35 St Martin's Street London WC2H 7HP tel: 020 7641 5244 fax: 020 7641 5266 email: [log in to unmask] www.llda.org.uk Find out what's going on in London's libraries at www.londonlibraries.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Palfrey, Miriam Sent: 22 August 2006 10:16 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Staffing Bib Services I am surprised that no one on the list has commented on this before now. Perhaps only members employed by the MLA have had the time and inclination to plough through the whole thing (it is quite horribly written after all). Personally, whilst I am obviously looking forward to the "opportunities that these proposals will open up" for me to become redundant or work in the library equivalent of a call centre, I am hoping that my local authority will not be foolish enough to devote nearly all of their stock funds into a scheme which does not seem to relate to the way in which public libraries actually work. -----Original Message----- From: Sarah Wilkie [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 22 August 2006 09:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Staffing Bib Services This seems a good time to draw everyone's attention to the publication last week of MLA's latest report on stock procurement, "Better stock, better libraries" which you'll find on our website at http://www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/framework/framework_programmes/ stock_procurement While we wouldn't want to suggest that anyone delays a review of bib services until 2008, it is important I think that any such review takes account of the national direction of travel and allows your authority to start to plan for the opportunities that these proposals will open up for you. Sarah -----Original Message----- From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carole Day Sent: 21 August 2006 14:43 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Staffing Bib Services Hi All, In Ealing we're reviewing our Bib. Services provision. Could you tell us : 1. How many staff in total you have working in Bib. Service (not inc. ICT support) including accessions, cataloguing & interloans. 2. How many Interloans staff & what grades. 3. How many cataloguing & what grades. Any info. gratefully rec. Carole Day Area Manager (West) LB Ealing Library & Information Service Perceval House 1NW 14/16 Uxbridge Road Ealing W5 2HL [log in to unmask] 020 8825 9303 The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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