Lancashire transfer Trawden Library to community group to run,
Pembrokeshire Town Council agree to one-year funding of Pembroke Library to keep it open,
Tag: library reopens
UK libraries in the news | 10 Aug 2018
Sheffield launches ‘Discover More’ campaign to encourage residents to use libraries after book loans fall drastically, particularly in volunteer-run libraries,
Lack of consultation over plans to move council services into East Lothian’s Prestonpans Library criticised,
Lancashire drop plans to allow scout group to run Bamber Bridge Library,
Ealing Council told to think again about shutting Pitshanger Library and expecting volunteers to run an alternative…
UK libraries in the news | 13 Jul 2018
Call for decision on the fate of Somerset’s library service to be made by full council rather than just the cabinet members,
School crowdfunds for library for pupils and the community,
Friends of Cricklewood Library in Brent still waiting to access new building to set up a volunteer-run library,
Ealing plan to close Pitshanger Library,
Liverpool Central Library has won The Bookseller’s Library of the Year Award 2018
UK libraries in the news | 23 Mar 2018
Seven East Sussex libraries to close and mobile library to cease,
Penn Library in Wolverhampton reopens after refurbishment,
Ten Derby libraries to be run by a charity with volunteers,
Sutton Central Library reopens after refurbishment
UK libraries in the news | 13 Mar 2018
Northamptonshire Council meet to discuss future of libraries,
Groups wishing to take over one of Northamptonshire’s 21 libraries under threat have just two months to submit a bid,
Suffolk go ahead with plans to relocate Eye Library,
Grade II Listed Art Deco library in Harrow reopens following undergoing refurbishments for the past two months,
Redditch Library could also be demolished with the library moving to a new shared site and becoming a public services hub
UK libraries in the news | 2 Mar 2018
More u-turns, protests, and calls for urgent inquiry into Northamptonshire libraries decision,
Library protest in Somerset,
Under-threat library in Hampshire gets self-service kiosks but no immediate plans to go staffless,
New plan for Lancashire libraries with claims that libraries will be open longer but staffing could be cut,
Hastings Library in East Sussex receives major revamp…
Uk libraries in the news | 26 Feb 2018
LGA warns that cuts to services will continue,
Shropshire plans to add to coffers by selling services, including ‘Fab Reads’ library service initiative,
Libraries Minister praises revamped library in Oxford, overlooking lack of access for wheelchair users,
Staff sickness forces two Bath libraries to close on multiple occasions,
The Literacy Trust teams up with Cartridge Save for ‘Gift of Books’ Campaign,
Denbighshire Library revamp to create a flexible space and one stop shop,
Eleventh Lancashire library reopens with call for a friends group ‘to make the library sustainable.’
East Sussex forges ahead with plans to close seven libraries. They can only be saved if community groups or organisations come forward to run them,
Scottish Book Trust on why libraries matter for health and wellbeing
UK libraries in the news | 30 Jan 2018
Harrow join Croydon and Ealing by bringing libraries in-house after the collapse of Carillion,
Decision on library cuts in West Dunbartonshire imminent,
Tony Robinson brands Bristol councillors ‘stupid bastards’ over library closures,
Unison advises members not to work at Lambeth’s Carnegie Library when it reopens.
And Whalley Library in Lancashire reopens….
UK libraries in the news | 24 Jan 2018
Strike face action in Bromley over outsourcing of libraries to GLL,
More on Carillion and Croydon libraries,
Singing protest to save a library in North Tyneside,
Barrowford Library reopens in Lancashire,
Job Centre Plus, self-service access and machines for a library in Cornwall,
Rochdale consult on libraries with no mention of cuts,
Library ‘makeover’ in Hampshire includes a community room and self-service,
Somerset libraries at risk,
Plans to move an Oxfordshire library to a ‘community hub’,
And Kirklees consult on cuts to libraries for the third year running….
UK libraries in the news | 15 Jan 2018
Library closures a ‘disgrace’
Carillion collapses & library service swiftly taken back in-house in Croydon,
Libraries promote mental well-being,
Oxford Central Library revamp fails to accommodate wheelchair users,
Council websites fall short on e-lending,
And a library reopens in Lancashire…
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