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WOW! - A FULL HOUSE at the community meeting on "NOTTS CC LIBRARY CUTS" held at the Library was well attended by so many residents that additional chairs had to be brought in to cater for the numbers (approx 100+ ) .
BJ LIBRARY – PAST/ PRESENT/ FUTURE - CAUSE/ AFFECT/ SOLUTION
Surprise! surprise! The two representatives present from NOTTS CC could not provide an answer or suggestion to the question as to why library numbers generally had decreased and were continuously falling - Unbelieveable !
How on earth can the establishment hope to run a successful library service if they are unaware of cause and affect? - We suggest the remidy will invariably be based simply upon financial retraints
We are told almost everyday now that libraries throughout the country are being closed by Council Authorities because they have to make cuts in their budgets. Which is why communities such as those in Devon , Worcester, Richmond, etc and over 100 others throughout the country are taking action with the formation of local "FRIENDS of LIBRARIES" - We need consider a similar initiative here in BJ., however as was suggested from within the meeting this possible initiative -( Friends of Burton Joyce Library) - should be divorced and detached from NOTTS CC control ( which incidentally is acceptable to Notts CC)
THE SOLUTION is surely that we the BJ community must develop a permanent strong solution to safeguard the long term existence our own library. A solution which will stand the test of time, preventing all possibility of the futher adverse revisions within the revisits to the annual Notts CC budget reviews
We need to take the “bull by the horns” and create an independent Community initiative such as the “Friends of Libraries” and develop a permanent solution based upon meeting the requirements of all ages of those within our community with due and vital consideration given to the issues suggested and necessary for the development of the British Library service 2010<2020 in the recent Governmental Report
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Parent website www.burtonjoyceonline.co.uk
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