On 22nd February Surrey County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Select Committee raised a challenge to the proposals for changes to the library service, as follows… “To review the decision by Cabinet on 1 February 2011 to implement the recommendations of the Libraries PVR to close the mobile library service and transfer libraries into community [...]
All posts for the month February, 2011
Surrey Library Service Review Recommends Rethinking Cabinet Decision
Posted by garygre on February 24, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/surrey-library-service-review-recommends-rethinking-cabinet-decision/
Gloucestershire and Doncaster Libraries Scrutiny
It was a strange week last week. The two library campaigns I’ve followed since before Voices for The Library was set up went to Scrutiny Committee in their respective areas – Gloucestershire and Doncaster. These committees were used to question whether the decision that had previously been agreed to cut their library service budgets were [...]
Posted by garygre on February 21, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/gloucestershire-and-doncaster-libraries-scrutiny/
Surrey Library Service Review
Surrey County Council are planning a £60m reduction in budget next year and are expected to provide services without increasing council tax. I work for Surrey County Council Library Service. The Library Service recently underwent a public value review. (Full documents here & here.) As a result of this recommendations were made as follows to a Cabinet [...]
Posted by garygre on February 18, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/surrey-library-service-review/
#SaveLibraries Even If You Can’t Get To One On 5th Feb.
CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) recently provided a page of ideas if you want to get involved in Save Our Libraries /Read-in day on 5th February, but don’t have much time to spare on the day. To sit along side that, I’ve come up with some ideas for people who can’t make it [...]
Posted by garygre on February 3, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/save-libraries-even-if-you-cant-get-to-one-on-5th-feb/
