Latest figures from The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA) show library loans are down 43% in the last decade in England, with libraries still in “a terrible state” as ...
Library campaigner Tim Coates, a former managing director of Waterstones, has warned US libraries are “in danger of going the same way as the UK” and there is too much reliance on digital provision.
Big UK publishers need to lobby councils over the importance of their libraries in a “last ditch stand” to save the service, campaigner Tim Coates has claimed. With council budgets under threat across ...