Comments on: Oh Deary me: Horrible Histories author says libraries have “had their day” https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/oh-deary-me-horrible-histories-author-says-libraries-have-had-their-day.html What's happening to your library? Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Louise Hollingsworth https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/oh-deary-me-horrible-histories-author-says-libraries-have-had-their-day.html#comment-5659 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:54:23 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4096#comment-5659 In reply to Louise Hollingsworth.

The quote was of course from Lord Gardiner, not Lord Kimble, my mistake.

]]> By: Louise Hollingsworth https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/oh-deary-me-horrible-histories-author-says-libraries-have-had-their-day.html#comment-5658 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:51:05 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4096#comment-5658 With regards to Lord Kimble’s reply “….clearly it is important that the local authorities reflect on the local need. That is precisely why there is a specialist libraries adviser, as I particularly mentioned, whose job it is to work with the local authorities where there is a question of libraries being at risk ”
That’s all very well but it is of no help whatsoever to the people campaigning to save Newcastle libraries from closure. The council vote to pass the cuts budget on March 6th and at a meeting on the 6th February they dismissed the petition signed by over 5,000 people to reconsider the library closures out of hand. As far as Newcastle City Council is concerned the library closures are going ahead no matter what anyone else says. It’s like talking to a brick wall, the council are not listening to public opinion, the public consultation has been an absolute joke and I doubt very much that they have had contact with this “specialist library advisor” or whether they would listen to them even if they had. To read that some newspapers are now reporting on other council library cuts across the country, Liverpool for example, as “doing a Newcastle” is just an absolute embarrasment for those of us who live here and care deeply about our libraries, even more so for those of us who are librarians and library workers.

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