I am glad you picked this up, as it was a sort of jocular off mic comment, which made me shoot up!
And isn't one of the organizations who should be doing what you suggest, the MLA?
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From: Gibbs, Jonathan
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: Libraries making the news again!
On the subject of insulting, I found the closing remark by Evan Davis advocating the use of Amazon by those deprived of libraries indicates that BBC presenting staff have no immediate danger of falling into the 'low paid workers' category. According to a notoriously unreliable online resource, Mr Davis apparently has form for this - a book entitled 'Public Spending' in which he urged private companies to replace the public sector in providing public services.
Now that the barbarians are no longer merely at the gates, but apparently sitting on the lawn in deckchairs waiting for local authorities to shred public library provision thus obviating the need to repeal the '64 Act, it would be wonderful to imagine some rear-guard defence from the profession. A Chief Officer or two stepping up to champion services perhaps? We cannot hope to escape from this horrible recession unscathed, but there is no other job I can envisage where there is an obligation to ensure that generations to come have at least some of the wonderful resources we currently enjoy. And if that means re-educating broadcasters so that they see the worth of libraries and avoid ill-informed comedy pieces (however inspired they might be by politicians), then we've made a start.
Jonathan Gibbs
I.T. and Operations Librarian, Barbican Library
020 7638 0569 ext. 7885
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From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Judith
Sent: 25 August 2010 07:45
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Subject: Re: Libraries making the news again!
Not to mention referring to library staff as "low paid workers"!!! Not that I'm denying that as a fact, but in context it was pretty insulting.
The level of debate was just facile.
Judith
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Reading recommendations -
I've been reading my fictional way around Africa recently, but am just moving into China by way of Qiu Xiaolong's excellent detective novels. I read "Death of a Red Heroine" when it first came out, and it's high time I caught up with the subsequent doings of Inspector Chen, one of Shanghai's Finest. As well as being an exemplary policeman, he's also a published poet - though in a rather different mould from our own dear Adam Dalgliesh.
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From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frances Hendrix
Sent: 25 August 2010 07:16
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Apparently the SCL were approached and didn't field any one. Same old...
and you are right about the quality of the debate.
dying pubs put a shelf of books in, yippee, great step forward
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From: Debby Raven
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Libraries making the news again!
I found the Today programme items pointless. No librarians speaking, no discussion about innovations in services, discussion at level that could have been 20 years ago.
Talking about the disappointing coverage to my friends who are (or have been) editors of national papers, etc, they say you have to remember that journalists are very lazy. This must apply to the Radio 4 producers and editors who yet again have failed to get any proper insight into what libraries are doing about such 'crises' in library service use.
On Aug 24, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Philip Wark wrote:
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