Frances Hendrix
Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods,
Chorley, Lancs PR6 7QR, UK
tel: 01257 274 833. fax: 01257 266
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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
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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Judith
Rhodes
Stock Services
Librarian
Leeds Library &
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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.
From: lis-pub-libs: UK
Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frances Hendrix
Sent: 25 August 2010 07:16
To:
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Subject: Re: Libraries making the news
again!
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
Frances Hendrix
Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane,
Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancs PR6 7QR, UK
tel: 01257 274 833. fax:
01257 266 488
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----- Original Message -----
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.
CILIP Library +
Information Gazette
www.cilip.org.uk/gazettedigital
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