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Library activists from Walsall and Hampshire explain the reality behind the stats that funding has been decimated and libraries are closing at an alarming rate

UNISON calls for libraries to stay completely closed, to protect library workers and their families

‘Our library workers need the certainty that will come with their workplaces being closed for this next lockdown phase’

Advice for a ‘gradual and phased’ return puts safety first

“I’ve also had customers hurl racist abuse at me and others have refused to be served by me.”

Hundreds of youth centres, libraries and public toilets causing huge impact on communities

Councils are using every trick in the book to offload their libraries

UNISON lays down plans to protect service and workers after hearing of members burned out and facing threats and violence

UNISON survey of library workers will look at the effects of austerity cuts on the service

Essex county councillors voted down calls yesterday to abandon their swingeing cuts to library services. An extraordinary council meeting was called after nearly 60,000 people signed petitions condemning a consultation on the future of libraries that will close at least 25. A further 18 libraries will close if no volunteer groups can be found to […]