Gloucestershire – Joanna Trollope supports libraries, council spokesman says cuts unavoidable – BBC
Gloucestershire – details of consultation times and dates – Friends of Gloucestershire
Walthamstow – St James Street Library RIP – Youtube (old video, but interesting)
Walthamstow – Campaign for Lea Bridge – Youtube (old video, but interesting)
Jeremy Hunt in favour of volunteers in libraries, does not mention them replacing staff – Guardian
“Take to the barricades” – Alan Gibbons
Aberdeenshire – some
Angus – 4 libraries closed this year (April) to be possibly replaced by a mobile
Argyll and Bute – 3 libraries and mobile library.
Barking and Dagenham – 5
Barnet – some – public consultation here
Barnsley – up to 8
Bedfordshire – 1 mobile to go
Birmingham – 40
Bolton – Up to 8
Brent – 6 (out of 12)
Bristol – some may be staffed by volunteers
Buckinghamshire – up to 14 to close or be staffed by volunteers
Cambridgeshire – some
Camden – several plus one mobile library (£2 million cut)
Central Bedfordshire – one mobile library to go
Cornwall – up to 23
Croydon – 1 (local studies)
Devon – (mobile stops cut)
Doncaster – 13, (may also be taken out of council control)
Dorset – up to 20 (out of 34) to close or be given to community groups
Dumfries – 7
Flintshire – 5 and at least one mobile
Gloucestershire – Up to 25 and 6 mobiles – 11 to close or go to volunteers. 7 to close if they don’t find a partner. A further 11 reduced to 3.5 hours a week (this is just a small figure I include them under “closed”), 6 mobile libraries to go.
Hampshire – (58 FTE jobs to go) (and mobile library review)(libraries merged with IT/property etc)
Harrow – (34 FTE to go)
Hartlepool – 1 confirmed to close (another to merge with community centre, all library’s hours cut)
Hertfordshire – (opening hours to be cut by one third – from 2236 hours down to 1575) – At least one library (Borehamwood) faces a 40% cut
Highland – (Wick Library to close and merge with school library)
Hounslow – (12 FTE to go, 1 IT skills suite closed)
Isle of Wight – up to 10 (out of 11)http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4018469601482369709
Kirklees – at least 1
Leeds – Up to 20 (out of 52)
Leicestershire – all libraries could be privatised, put to trust or shared (merge of lending/reference- 14 FTE jobs lost)
Lewisham – 5
Milton Keynes – 2
Newport – 7
Northumberland – some
North Norfolk – some (c. £1m reduction)
North Somerset – 1 closed, 2 proposed. Weston Mercury update
North Yorkshire – 24 to close or be staffed by volunteers, 9 mobiles to go off road.
Nottingham – (80 FTE jobs to go, 75% off bookfund, 30 libraries have less opening hours)
Oldham – (increase in volunteers, merging, cuts)
Oxfordshire – 20 – list of those under threat here
Redbridge – 5 out of 12 may close, another may relocate.
Renfrewshire – (2 libraries to move into smaller sites in community centres)
Richmond – 1
Rochdale – (some library managers to to go in first phase of cuts)
Sefton – 3
Sheffield – (30% cut expected)
Shropshire – 1 (reference library to merge with central library)
Somerset – several. 7 libraries have reduced opening hours until decision made/jobs freeze.
Stoke – 2 and 1 mobile library, (ends RNIB service)
Suffolk – up to 2
Tower Hamlets – (staff made to reapply for their own jobs -23 library staff replaced)
Wakefield – “several”
Walsall – at least 8 (30 FTE). More details here
Wandsworth – 1 plus reduction in hours in others
Warrington – 2 and 1 mobile library
West Sussex – Some (5 FTE lost, some librarians pay reduced to library assistant)
Wigan – Up to 15 out of 17 (£1.1m cut off £4m budget)
Wiltshire – (26 FTE posts to go inc. 9 out of 13 community librarians)
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