https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2020/09/not-a-good-time-to-be-down-by-two-thirds-kent-and-stockport.html What's happening to your library? Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:32:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2020/09/not-a-good-time-to-be-down-by-two-thirds-kent-and-stockport.html#comment-49354 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:32:05 +0000 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=17079#comment-49354 It is hard not to see the Princh article on Collaboration as a spoof. It summarises so much wrong with the way many libraries are going. I mean jazz!. Give me a break, and “leveraging the libraries brand”!. Libraries have a brand; they are known for providing books, physical and digital, and information, physical and digital. Weakening the “brand” with unwanted, random, irrelevancies, simply dilutes the brand. Library customers want books and information. The less provided, the fewer the customers. It reminds me of years commuting by train. Loads of money spent on “upgrading” stations and cute retail “opportunities”, when all we Wanted was trains; on time.

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