Comments on: Dame Joan Bakewell, Jamie Oliver and Alan Bennett https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/02/dame-joan-bakewell-jamie-oliver-and-alan-bennett.html What's happening to your library? Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Ian Anstice https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/02/dame-joan-bakewell-jamie-oliver-and-alan-bennett.html#comment-236 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:41:59 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2012/02/dame-joan-bakewell-jamie-oliver-and-alan-bennett.html#comment-236 Hi Anonymous. Thanks for the comment.

Where did you get the view that all libraries were disproportionately suffering cuts? Some authorities are. Some are not. As one would expect from a service split over 151 authorities with the only person with national responsibility refusing to intervene in any way.

By the way, to wave away the loss of one in five trained staff in just one year as a piddling thing is an interesting point of view for one concerned with libraries.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/02/dame-joan-bakewell-jamie-oliver-and-alan-bennett.html#comment-235 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:30:22 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2012/02/dame-joan-bakewell-jamie-oliver-and-alan-bennett.html#comment-235 8% of libraries (not mobiles) have closed, and on (some unreliable guestimate by CILIP) 20% of librarians MAY have lost their jobs (not sure 700 librarians have been made redundant, but there you go).

Not exactly evidence of libraries disproportianately suffering cuts (28% across local gov) as is often alleged

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