Friday, 18 March 2011

The power of one

So here I am, one lone voice shouting into the wind and hoping that someone out there will hear and start shouting with me. And that from there we can go from one lone voice to a whole multitude shouting in unison to get the message across - "Your libraries are not safe, act now to save them!"

Devon County Council had put out the message that "none of its 50 libraries would close, but some branches could have opening hours reduced" and we all made the mistake of believing that our beloved repositories of knowledge were safe from the programme of cuts, that they would survive intact. But this is not the case, your service is being attacked from the inside in a 'restructuring' campaign that looks like it intends to destroy the service we know, and close your libraries. You won't find this in the press, or on the Local Authority's web pages or in their press releases, you won't know its happening until its too late, but your libraries are on the endangered list and only you, the public, the borrowers, can save them.

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