UK National Libraries Day makes Lesley Pearse official Ambassador
In a welcome sign that the apparent anti-public libraries lobby in official UK circles are not having things all their own way, the British charity National Libraries Day has announced that Lesley...
View ArticleUK DCMS public libraries report branded “work of propaganda”
The latest (December 17th) “Report under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 for 2012/2013” from the British government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), the body responsible...
View ArticleRetiring National Library of Scotland National Librarian named new CILIP...
Martyn Wade, the retiring National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland, has been named as the new chair of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information...
View ArticleNew UK public libraries report: Timely, or deliberate time-wasting?
The UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport (headed by Ed Vaizey) and Department for Communities and Local Government have jointly commissioned “an independent report on the public library...
View ArticleCILIP gets behind campaign to open up UK library ebook lending
The Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), the UK’s professional librarians body, has issued a release and a call for action under the heading “Strict limits on...
View ArticleCILIP confirms libraries endorsement of new UK intellectual property rules
The Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) has just added its overall endorsement to the new changes to UK copyright law, confirming the overall positive reception of...
View ArticleUK libraries protest copyright restrictions with empty spaces
The Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals and other libraries and library associations in the UK are in the midst of a campaign to move unpublished individual works to the...
View ArticleUK government responds to Sieghart library report, meets skepticism
Following the release of the Sieghart report on the UK library system, in full the ”Independent Library Report for England,” the current UK government has announced its official response. As reported...
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CILIP delivers crushing vote against UK library “amateurisation”
The UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) have just held their annual general meeting in London. At the meeting, they delivered a ringing majority vote in favour of...
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CILIP launches My Library By Right campaign to pressure UK government
CILIP, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, has launched a public campaign, My Library By Right, to pressure the UK government to honor its legal obligations to...
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Carnegie legacy lives as closure protestors occupy London library
Andrew Carnegie‘s legacy of supporting public education and literacy is getting a late refresh in London. Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, Lambeth, was slated for closure on April 1st, as part of...
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Can we trust latest UK government library usage figures?
The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the government body responsible for libraries in England and Wales, has issued a “statistical release” in partnership with the UK Arts Council, “Taking...
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