Comments on: Four views on volunteer libraries: Sue Charteris, AnneMarie Naylor, Marylyn Haines-Evans of the WI and Ian Anstice https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com What's happening to your library? Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:07:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: librariesmatter https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/campaigning/volunteer-run-libraries/practicalities/three-views-on-volunteer-libraries-sue-charteris-annemarie-naylor-and-ian-anstice#comment-5930 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:20:35 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=6985#comment-5930 Surely the answer to the question posed is ‘No’ if the community libraries are part of Council’s statutory library service. I’m assuming the public library network is defined as being the same as the statutory service. In that case Councillors will have decided that the best way to provide the public library service given the [reduced] resources available is to have some community run libraries as part of its public library provision. The key point is the resources available. With more resources then the best way might well be different.

It should also be borne in mind that a move towards local community run libraries is reversible. If more resources become available in the future then the community run libraries could go back to being Council run if both the Council and the local community were willing. The alternative of closing libraries is irreversible.

The issue that will cause the demise of the public library network is a lack of funding and no floor on what constitutes a comprehensive and efficient public library service.

]]> By: Christopher Pipe https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/campaigning/volunteer-run-libraries/practicalities/three-views-on-volunteer-libraries-sue-charteris-annemarie-naylor-and-ian-anstice#comment-5928 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:38:29 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=6985#comment-5928 Deeply worried about unquestioning use of word “community”. Does it mean councils are no longer regarded as working for / representing their local community? Does it imply that individuals are not welcome unless they band together in some artificial sort of club? Does it mean partisan groups or communities defined by race, wealth or culture .might be acceptable controllers of what has hitherto been a public library?

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