When we’ve read our weeklies - the New Scientist and The Week - we give them to the local library. They are very grateful, as their grants have been severely cut so they can’t offer them to readers anymore. Our mags go first to Ilminster library, which then passes them on to Chard, Crewkerne and South Petherton.
Better than the recycling bin.
Please share/forward!
There are probably many ways to help keep libraries open.
A few years ago, when our local libraries were pencilled in for cutbacks/possible closure, the government's backed people's network installed computers for free access! This has really taken off big time, i.e. quite often there are queues even though there could be as many as 15 computers in a room. 1 hour is allotted.
When we’ve read our weeklies - the New Scientist and The Week - we give them to the local library. They are very grateful, as their grants have been severely cut so they can’t offer them to readers anymore. Our mags go first to Ilminster library, which then passes them on to Chard, Crewkerne and South Petherton.
Better than the recycling bin.
Please share/forward!
Not all libraries are allowed to take donated reading matter.
Another way to help keep libraries going might be to be a volunteer there. Some libraries are
asking for volunteers.
When I posted this to another forum ("Down the Lane"), someone replied:
I just found out last week that our library takes book donations. The decent ones are catalogued and put on the shelves. The tatty ones are sold on to a paper reclamation business and will be turned into paper. An income for the library!
Good idea! I wonder if other libraries do it that way? Hers is in North Lincs.
Not North Yorkshire.
Not North Yorkshire.
You no longer live in Wales, Crowan?
We moved from North Yorkshire to Wales in 2013. Before that I worked for North Yorkshire, both in the Library Service and as a teacher. North Yorkshire County Council appeared to have nothing but contempt for their workers and their service users.
I hope that library volunteers in other parts of the UK do better, but NYCC used volunteers to justify getting rid of full time staff, then gave the volunteers so few powers and so little help that they were able to turn around and say, look - having volunteers isn't working. We'll have to close them anyway!
I doubt that they have suddenly started caring in the last couple of years.