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Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Libraries and Library Services have been serverly hit due to the Austery agenda.  8000 jobs have been lost, 343 Libraries closed, over 15,000 volunteers introduced and many more buildings handed over to either community groups or external providers.  Libraries are one of the few free open spaces in society, they are often the heart of […]

Commenting on plans finalised today to shut ten of Swindon’s fifteen libraries and reduce the opening hours of the remaining buildings, UNISON South West regional secretary Joanne Kaye said: “With only five libraries left, Swindon will lose the expertise and experience of staff, and the service will be harder to access for older people or […]

30% of library staff in South Gloucestershire could be sacked under Tory Councillors’ plans to hit the local service, despite the council’s own consultation showing most public support for stopping library cuts. With £650k of cuts planned over the next three years, the library service will see its budget (£2.6m) fall by more than one […]

Dave Prentis takes support and solidarity to north London picket line in strike over plans to outsource library service

Neath Port Talbot branch fought a successful campaign against library closures – so just how did they do it?

UNISON backs BBC report that reveals loss of 8,000 jobs and 343 libraries in six years

Friends and fellow UNISON members Elaine Brooks and Elaine Cotterell have worked in libraries all their lives. They travelled to London to defend their passion

A local government member tells us about the effect of cuts on his community’s archive