Trevor Craig, an Oxfordshire campaigner, was today (Friday) given the opportunity to have a meeting about public libraries with the Prime Minister, who is also his MP. Trevor reports that the meeting was very constructive and they were able to discuss issues including escalating service charges imposed on library authorities, the need to encourage the sharing of services and technology and the lack of strategic leadership on libraries from the DCMS, in comparison to the vision shown for libraries in other countries, for example Ireland. The Prime Minister showed genuine interest in the issues discussed and said that he would discuss leadership with Ed Vaizey. Unfortunately, there was insufficient time to discuss the issues surrounding the ACL.