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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 […]

With £650k of cuts planned over the next three years, the library service will see its budget (£2.6m) fall by more than one quarter. Options set out in the Council’s […]

“Council services up and down the country are under attack as the Tory government in Westminster piles still more cuts on […]

What campaigning activities did you do? The campaign involved several strands: we set up an online petition on change.org and encouraged everyone to sign. Our petition […]

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