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Monday, 13 December 2010

"Lies, Damned lies and Lewisham" (my apologies to Mark Twain!)

Lewisham Council has been threatening to close six of its libraries, to save money they say! Library users in the borough have mounted a vigorous campaign and legal challenge to stop them doing so.
 Now they have announced that they are to join the 'London Libraries Consortium', a grouping of 12 library authorities who offer access to over a 100 libraries in the capital and most importantly shared costs, but in order to do this they must change their library management IT system, at a cost of possibly 100's of thousands of pounds! Were has this money miraculously appeared from?

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