https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/03/southend-and-trafford-will-have-more-volunteers-derby-will-have-a-new-library.html What's happening to your library? Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/03/southend-and-trafford-will-have-more-volunteers-derby-will-have-a-new-library.html#comment-5700 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:12:44 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4400#comment-5700 I am a volunteer in Cambridgeshire, at an independent library which would have been closed had the Community not rallied together to keep it open some years ago. We are very aware of the situation the full time staff have been placed in by the necessary cuts to services, We do not welcome it, but we, and they, have to work with it. We have enormous respect for our full time colleagues in Cambridgeshire, they are very helpful, always willing to advise and guide, for which we thank them enormously. It is unfortunate we have the situation in this country where money is so tight, but unfortunately it is the old old story of spend too much and you have to pay it back, and that is the situation the country is in at present. Hopefully it will improve, but in the meantime we will all work together to try to keep as many libraries open as possible, so our children, grandchildren and their children will be able to enjoy the sheer pleasure of a library, as we did.

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