Why ??

Is there any evidence anywhere that these so called ‘universal offers’ have added one user to any public library – or indeed if anyone ( outside the little circle of beneficiaries ) even understands what they mean

The unversal offers of a public library are free books and other reading in a warm building – and the use of them is falling because they don’t do these things well enough for people to choose to use them . That’s the problem . Until we tackle that we might as well write off the public library service as a dead loss

But we seem to be going back to the lunatic days of the last Labour Government in which the MLA spent hundreds of thousands every month on meaningless initiatives and reports which never achieved anything .

Do you know who is funding the SCL- and what political purpose is intended by the money ? Who has decided that these projects should have priority over things that libraries need ?