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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.
When people from Japan contact you and say they want to see you for an interview, you know something is happening.
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Since 1st April 2014: 148 static libraries have been put under threat of closure/passing to volunteers. 7 mobile libraries under threat. 1 new library opened. 3 refurbishments over £50k, 2 library closed, 8 libraries passed to volunteers. 1 entirely new volunteer-run library. 493 libraries (411 buildings and 82 mobiles) are currently reported as either likely to be closed or passed to volunteers or have been closed/left council control from 1/4/13 to 31/3/14 out of c.4265 in the UK. This figure will shortly be reviewed and is here as an indicator only. 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 74 service points were lost in 2012/13 and 201 library service points were lost 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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