https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2011/09/national-library-leadership-please.html What's happening to your library? Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:16:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2011/09/national-library-leadership-please.html#comment-126 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:16:23 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2011/09/national-library-leadership-please.html#comment-126 Any surprises here? The only surprise is that public libraries have survived for so long. Books are cheap, information is widely available on the internet. Libraries offer poor service- bad opening hours, poor quality buildings – their only selling point is that they are free! Yes – they offer community space, IT and are valued by users; but most of the population are not users. If we have to chose between healthcare and libraries I know which I would choose!

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