Islington Residents (& Students, & Workers) - Libraries Consultation

Islington Council are inviting opinions prior to deciding how to continue to the costs of running local libraries.

You can comment via the short questionnaire here.

Personally, I'm not happy about the suggestion that volunteers are used to run them, instead of employees. Various authorities are trying to implement this model across assorted community services (e.g. Post Offices), and I think it's wank, particularly as meanwhile it's becoming more and more difficult to claim benefits. How the fuck are people meant to survive?

Anyway…

my guess is they lost a lot of money on the big library fine amnesty of 2011

I'd rather Islington spent more time and money on all the fuckin dogshit if I'm on honest

@ dicki - that was UCL, which is in Camden.

@ Pistanator - the Tories and their community-killing policy makers will be pleased you've got your priorities right*.

*I hate all the dogshit too

well excuuuuuse me

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I don't know, I've seen plenty of other fixed bikes around Islington.

It took you three days to think up that awful pun Oliver? Or three days to build up to the bare faced cheek of posting it?

Incidentally, the consultation's key findings were as follows (not very encouraging, but not surprising either):

**All ten libraries in Islington will be kept open, though opening hours will be reduced in all libraries except Central and Finsbury. Reducing the opening hours will save £200k between 2011-2014. 73% of respondents to the consultation supported reducing opening hours to save money.

We are not reducing what we spend on books

Automated terminals for checking out books will be introduced in all libraries , saving £250k between 2011-14

Voluntary redundancies and back-office reductions will save £140k between 2011-14

We will share our Home Library Service with Camden saving £30k between 2011-14

We will increase fines and review CD and DVD hire services saving £30k between 2011-13**

It took you three days to think up that awful pun Oliver? Or three days to build up to the bare faced cheek of posting it?

I only just saw apolloxl's post. Had I been around when it was posted, I would of course have thought of the pun straightaway, such is my inventive genius.