Comments on: Bradford strike, Warrington good news, CILIP and campaigners, and Libraries Connected. https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2019/10/bradford-strike-warrington-good-news-cilip-and-campaigners-and-libraries-connected.html What's happening to your library? Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Glyn Sutcliffe https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2019/10/bradford-strike-warrington-good-news-cilip-and-campaigners-and-libraries-connected.html#comment-46749 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:32:26 +0000 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=15059#comment-46749 The CILIP Position Statement reads more like a party political document than that of a professional body. While I agree with much of the content I disagree with any professional organisation being so overtly politicised in this way. We are about facilitating the delivery of information in all formats in an impartial, detached, unbiased and disinterested way. How can we do this within such a political agenda framework as embodied in the CILIP Position Statement? Such an approach will fail in any event since CILIP has no political influence and will be ignored by those who have. This is already more than clear by the rapid decline of Public Libraries. Only by pursuing sound professional values rather than political agendas will the profession reassert any influence through embracing a closer professional integrity based on academe.

]]> By: Glyn Sutcliffe https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2019/10/bradford-strike-warrington-good-news-cilip-and-campaigners-and-libraries-connected.html#comment-46703 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:41:50 +0000 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=15059#comment-46703 Perhaps a ‘Lives change Libraries’ award is now more appropriate. Time to begin again with the William Ewart Award for genuine stand-alone public libraries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_(British_politician).

Bradford Central Library used to be a shining example of what could be achieved both in scale, design and service delivery. All lost.
Libraries are communications centres for information in all formats, print and electronic, delivered through structured holdings and access to wider resources. They are not community hubs, social centres, dog care areas, cafes or micky mouse book collections run by volunteers, how ever well intentioned.

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