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One of the many joys of doing the website is being recognised for the hard work which is put in. I won the IWR Information Professional of the Year 2011 award for Public Libraries News. See this video.
The British Library have chosen to archive Public Libraries News.
Of course, it’s not all about the website. For work at “my” public library I won the Winsford Customer Service Oscar 2012 and again in 2014.
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Since 1st April 2014: 233 static libraries have been put under threat of closure/passing to volunteers. 8 mobile libraries under threat. 1 new library opened. 3 refurbishments over £50k, 11 libraries (3 static and 8 mobile) libraries closed, 9 libraries passed to volunteers. 1 entirely new volunteer-run library. Please note that the number under threat does not normally correspond with the number eventually closed. There are currently 4145 libraries in the UK. There were 4482 in 2009/10 and 4622 in 2003/4. The complete list is on "Tally by Local Authority" page as are other changes to budgets such as cuts to hours, bookfund and staffing. CIpfa have calculated that 49 service points were lost in 2013/14, 74 were lost in 2012/13 and 201 in 2011/12. For a list of new and refurbished buildings see this page,
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I would also like to add at this point my thanks to Shirley Burnham for her frequent emails with relevant public libraries news which I then use as a a large part of the material for this site.
Warren O'Donoghue of Rabbitdigital Design has been wonderful in designing and creating this website, maintaining it and basically being there for the one hundred and one web problems that seem to surface all the time.
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