https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com What's happening to your library? Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/myth-busting#comment-7687 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:53:30 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/?page_id=1230#comment-7687 Your naïve commentator may be interested to learn that our current rulers have chosen both Libraries and free universal Healthcare (the NHS) to be eliminated. It is undoubtedly the most right-wing government we have ever had and they are anxious to destroy every Socialist achievement in British society. It is ironical that they still call themselves ‘Conservative’, since they are in fact Revolutionary Capitalists restructuring the UK along American, rather than European social democratic lines. Most of the people who write about the destruction of our Library services, both for and against, have little idea of what libraries are really about. Where they survive, quite apart from providing free access to the sum total of human knowledge, they are the most important community centre for those who most need them: the elderly, the poor, the dispossessed, children, students, migrants, etc., etc. But those people don’t vote Tory, do they?

]]> https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/myth-busting#comment-4144 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:25:17 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/?page_id=1230#comment-4144 I would like to support this campaign. Without the use of a free public library nearby my parental home, while I was at secondary school, I would probabely never gone on to study for a Musicology degree.
I dread to think many children’s life will be affected as such and miss out on finding out what really interests them in life.

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