Monthly Archive: May 2023

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May 20, 2023

Reading in the Rain

Grace Hill Library early history…. A series of blogs written for the Save Our Library campaign by Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University If you’re finding it hard to think about summer reading...

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May 11, 2023

Folkestone Free Library: Beginnings

Professor Carolyn Oulton School of Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University Books have always had the power to cause trouble. Ironically the Folkestone Free Library catalogue for 1884 includes Mary Braddon’s Taken at the Flood among other...

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Alan Wylie @wylie_alan ·

26 Aug

Councils propose to close libraries.
They do Equality Impact Assessments which show that the poorest & most vulnerable residents will be severely impacted by the closures.
They then close the libraries.
What’s the point of EIA’s I hear you say?
#savelibraries

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Alan Wylie @wylie_alan ·

22 Aug

Hi @lisanandy @RhonddaBryant please call a moratorium on library cuts & closures and meet with representatives from all interested parties inc users, unions, campaigners & prof orgs to discuss the way forward.
We can’t go on like this.
#savelibraries

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Alan Wylie @wylie_alan ·

19 Aug

Hi @lisanandy @RhonddaBryant what’s your vision re Public Libraries?
After 14yrs of trying to get @UKLabour to adopt a national policy supporting the sector and the staff who work in it I’d love to know what your plan is?
#savelibraries

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Rainbow Centre @rainbowcentre01 ·

11 Aug

#charity #volunteers

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