Silent Library TV Show in the UK

News

• Community-run libraries “could charge” – BookSeller.  Article already mentioned here but the comments are interesting.
• Future face of literature – Sunday Times (behind paywall).  Enfield librarian Ruper Colley comments on piece on iPad and Ebooks.
• IT Boss admits swindling £500,000 from National Library of Scotland – Daily Record.  “Throw the book at him”.
• Libraries are the beating hearts of our communities – NRToday.com (USA).
• New public library chapter in Santa Clarita – Signal (USA).   Controversial LSSI takeover of three-branch system favourably reported.  “The provision of excellent library services in our community is a top priority for our city. Our local libraries will have the benefit of a new partnership with LSSI, a professional library-management company that currently provides services to 13 public-library systems and 63 branch operations across the country, including the Library of Congress.”
• This is our last public space – American Libraries (USA). 
• Want to know print’s future? It will cost you – Guardian. Average British consumer spends £4 per month on ebooks.  Article speculates that books will divide with cheap paperbacks/vanity disappearing but quality hardbacks remaining. 
• We need libraries – One man and his beard.   “Don’t close our [guitar] Don’t close out [guitar] Don’t close our libraries”.
• Where life begins again and friends live forever – JJ Brown, Author (USA).

Changes to service

Croydon – Dozen library staff lost in April. 

Local News 

• Birmingham – Tesco awarded for listed library development – Retail Gazette.  Spring Hill Library now linked to new Tesco.  “The library, constructed in 1893, was saved from demolition in the 1970s and now following the award-winning development it is linked to the Tesco outlet via a covered walkway and a new lift, helping to boost footfall.”
• Cheshire West and Chester – Ellesmere Port library to close for major refurbishment – Ellesmere Port Pioneer. “The project includes the installation of self-service book issue and return, self-serve People’s Network and remodelling of the entrance area. There will also be a layout change, Wi-Fi installation, improved toilet facilities, complete redecoration, carpeting and improved ventilation.”
• Croydon – Secret meetings and council silence over library sell-off scheme – Inside Croydon.  Council are being very quiet about “market testing” proposal looking into privatising libraries, despite large-scale multimedia publicity of other council projects. Commenter worries that privatisation will mean increase in fees and distress to poorer users.
• Croydon – New Addington residents have their say at Councils’ first question time – Guardian series.   “We listened to the thousands of people who responded to recent consultations on parking and libraries, and we listened to the 2,500 people who told us how they wanted their money spent last year..”
• Gloucestershire – Library closure plans halted by injunction – Wilts and Glos Standard.
• Leeds – Rationalisation of Library Services: email from official – What Do They Know?
• Northern Ireland – Rural Community + Mobile Library = Nonsense – BBC Your Week in Pictures.  Killyleagh Library protesters with mock up library van make their point.