Comments on: DCMS intervenes in Lancashire: delay or something more? https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/10/dcms-intervenes-in-lancashire-delay-or-something-more.html What's happening to your library? Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:52:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Linda Moffatt https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/10/dcms-intervenes-in-lancashire-delay-or-something-more.html#comment-7936 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:55:26 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11557#comment-7936 Cornwall started bringing One Stop Shops into libraries several years ago with the decision to continue to do so whenever the opportunity presented itself i.e. Change of building
We now have 13 Library One Stop Shops in Cornwall, offering the services mentioned in the Ideas Stores. The latest Library One Stop Shop opened in April of this year when Penzance Library moved into the newly refurbished St John’s Hall along with the previously stand alone One Stop shop on the outskirts of the town. The staff are cross skilled and we see it as one service, not two separate ones.

]]> By: Frank Daniels https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/10/dcms-intervenes-in-lancashire-delay-or-something-more.html#comment-7935 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:01:28 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11557#comment-7935 Re: Lancashire cuts. Is it not the case that the cuts Lancashire C.C. are making in their public library service are driven by a lack of funding, as a direct result of the last Chancellor’s austerity programme? If that is so, then is it not disingenuous of the DCMS to claim that they are going to “investigate” the apparently reprehensible behaviour of councillors whose actions would appear to be actuarially beyond reproach: i.e. if you do not have the money then you cannot spend it.

Of course I could be totally wrong. How many Conservative-run councils are beng “investigated” for implementing austerity cuts in library services? So it goes …

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