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Tuesday 29 March 2011

New Reader Libraries!

The Reader Organisation, a literacy charity from the north east, is currently trying to push the idea of creating new 'community' libraries, or as they call them 'New Reader Libraries'.
"First, we are advocating a national network of New Reader Libraries. New Reader Libraries are going to be like a real home, crossed with a great school, crossed with a fabulous café. People are the main thing, people and the things people need.
There will be laptops and desktops and possibly even a home-cinema-size screen, and a PA system for dance night and disco. But mainly it will be books, chairs, sofas, corners, lamps, tables, people and food." - sounds like something Jamie Oliver would think up!
Anyway they claim to be supporting the campaign to save libraries but at the same time seem to be totally undermining this by advocating the creation of new 'libraries' run by themselves and volunteers and by asking people to sign an e-petition in support of this (90 signatories in 8 days, that's all the staff and their friends and families taken care off then!)
"Up and down the country, libraries are being marked for closure; 800 may be shut by the end of the year. No one supports the cuts and there have been protests aplenty. Now it is time for a change.
The Reader Organisation wants to create New Reader Libraries, with people and reading at the heart of them."
The word opportunistic springs to mind!

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