It is also the year of an election!! Get your members, users, supporters to speak to their candidates! Votes are your voice!! f Digest of e-cuttings : 31st December Express & Star : 31st December Volunteers to help run Black Country libraries under cost-cutting plans 13 libraries in Dudley earmarked for a 'transfer of management' http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/12/31/volunteers-to-help-run-black-country-libraries-under-cost-cutting-plans/ Wales Online : 31st December Newport Council 'risks disowning literary hero Arthur Machen if library closes' http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/newport-council-risks-disowning-literary-8365922 Wales Online : 31st December Proposed library cuts in Cardiff 'worse than burning books,' Welsh poet Sheenagh Pugh claims in scathing attack on council http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/proposed-library-cuts-cardiff-worse-8365923 Get Bucks : 30th December Dedicated volunteer from Chalfont St Giles receives new year's honour http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/dedicated-volunteer-chalfont-st-giles-8360339 Staffordshire Newsletter : 30th December AWARD... Staffordshire libraries guru Janene Cox http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/Staffordshire-workers-recognised-new-year-s/story-25782402-detail/story.html The Gazette : 30th December Hundreds opposed to leisure trust transfer in Renfrewshire http://www.the-gazette.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/12/30/520090-hundreds-opposed-to-leisure-trust-transfer-/ <http://t.co/oeK4KJP7w7> Frances Hendrix Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancs, PR6 7QR Tel: 01257 274 833. Mobile: 0777 55 888 03