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Save Our Libraries - Essex. Campaigning to keep all Essex libraries open. Campaigning for all our libraries to be run by professional paid staff.
Joined March 2019
Save Our Libraries - Essex campaigned and saved the majority of our libraries from closing. But we’ll continue to campaign to ensure the safety of this essential service, to keep our public library buildings, for longer open hours, the paid library staff & better book stocks etc
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RT @coates_tim: There is a much wider issue than is raised in this report. For a long time, major UK publishers have not believed that pub…
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This is our first organising meeting in a number of years, following the above and other threats to the service. Details: Zoom on Monday 24th February, 19.30. ALL supporters are WELCOME. Meeting ID: 879 5679 7666 Passcode: 193396
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RT @Liz_Miles: ‘Between 2010 and 2020, almost eight hundred libraries were closed – and of those that now remain, a third have reduced thei…
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RT @publiclibnews: “Authors say plan to shut more than 20 public libraries could have devastating effect on Scotland’s cultural future” htt…
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RT @wylie_alan: I’ll be speaking at this rally against library closures in @LBofHavering please show your support and solidarity ✊ #savelib…
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Yet more weekly news of library cuts and closures, with this from Slough. But there is is always hope when people fight back to save the libraries that change their lives. As we know in Essex, and have also seen across the country, people power works!
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Stop the privatisation of @EssexLibraries Libraries by their very nature should be free. SOLE’s letter to Cllr Durham @Essex_CC @TheGazette @BBCEssex
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Privatisation of public space at Loughton Library, Essex! @Essex_CC has duped library users. Full press release here
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RT @publiclibnews: Newport plans to close 3 out of 8 libraries and to make a fourth volunteer.
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RT @SeanJMcNamara1: Stirling Council urged to rethink 25 per cent library budget cuts @publiclibnews
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RT @publiclibnews: Wakefield: The proposed library opening hours would mean a loss of 39 hours across library service
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RT @publiclibnews: Nottingham: Opening hours across all of Nottingham’s libraries will be cut by more than 200 hours a week, 36 full-time o…
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RT @publiclibnews: “I want to pay my respects to these unique institutions. By planning readings up to a decade in advance, I’m being optim…
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RT @Bobby_Seagull: What is the most precious thing I carry with me? My library card! I borrow physical or audio books for my non-fiction b…
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RT @libsconnected: Public #Libraries offer free IT facilities that allow customers access to good quality, reliable health information from…
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RT @Liz_Miles: It was great hearing @frankcottrell_b on @BBCr4today this morning. We must embrace our great value-for-money public librarie…
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RT @CILIPinfo: Help shape research for an upcoming book on the experience of homeless users in libraries. Please fill in this anonymous su…
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RT @coates_tim: The reduction of book funds in public libraries in the UK, over 30 years, has been a terrible mistake - and it is still goi…
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