Comments on: Lament for Lambeth https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2015/10/lament-for-lambeth.html What's happening to your library? Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: librariesmatter https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2015/10/lament-for-lambeth.html#comment-7350 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:10:47 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=9846#comment-7350 The Scottish libraries – Civica proposed service looks to be similar to the service that Civica has provided for a number of years to the SELMS consortium (currently 11 councils) in South East England.

]]> By: Mick Fortune https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2015/10/lament-for-lambeth.html#comment-7349 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:41:57 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=9846#comment-7349 Interesting arithmetic in the Civica story. According to the population figures supplied by Scottish public libraries in 2013 when licensing their online products the maximum percentage of the population now served by Civica libraries looks rather closer to 30% than 62%. Even allowing for a population surge in a resurgent nation and supplier hyperbole that’s quite a hike.

Perhaps when they say “served” they’re including all the other local authority services supplied by Civica, more and more of which we are seeing delivered via libraries. It makes it even harder to determine what’s actually happening to libraries – and makes your job even harder Ian!

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