“The most important resource a library has is its skilled staff at all levels. A library run by volunteers or self-service alone would not be fit for purpose or worthy of being called a public library” says Sean McNamara to deep-cutting council

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/together-wit… Ok! I’m taking the plunge & doing a crowdfunder to get my album over the finish line. There’s loads more info on the linked page! Creative Scotland are wonderful but if anyone can help, I’d be so grateful.

“Drag Queen Story Hour looks exactly like any other [event] you would see at a library … but the reader may look a little more fabulous than your average librarian”. bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/artic…

Thanks to our colleagues at CILIP and Arts Council England for producing this excellent and thorough guidance on 'Managing Safe and Inclusive Services', with lots in it that can support public libraries and their staff in Scotland cilips.org.uk/safe-inclusive/

Excited to announce that I'm working on a book about kindness & wellbeing in libraries! Seeking short vignettes (200-300 words) to illuminate real-world practices. Contribute your expertise! Deadline: 27th November 2023. More details drive.google.com/file/d/1fy5dk_… #Libraries #Kindness

On 19th October 2023, exactly 114 years after disrupting Churchill’s meeting in Dundee, we pay tribute to Maud, and to all other courageous suffrage activists that endured violence, abuse, humiliation, intimidation and imprisonment so that women could vote. Thank you.

Amey NE Trunk Roads UPDATE❗ ⌚19:34 #A92 Kilmany CLOSED in both directions between Rathillet and Kilmany due to flooding⛔ Diversion information can be found at traffic.gov.scot Below is a picture of the flooding in the area! Amey NE Trunk Roads

🚨 WE NEED YOUR LIBRARY STORIES! PLEASE SHARE! 🚨 🎥🎞️🎬 The team are in talks with a documentary maker about the possibility of a film about Libraries in Scotland. But we need your help! #LibrariesAreEssential ✨📚 Read more here: cilips.org.uk/library-storie…

Two new guidance notes from Libraries Connected may well be of interest - librariesconnected.org.uk/resource/guida… on making libraries as safe as possible and librariesconnected.org.uk/resource/guida… for open access/staffless libraries.

Just been informed that Stirling is proposing cutting all but one library (16 libraries to close) or cutting just (!) half of them. Wow. mwu.unison.org.uk/warms/index.ph…

Saturday 23rd Dec. .Spare Snare .Echo Machine .RRRapid-Kool and Phill Jupitus and Celie Byrne

Derby considers spinning out its 10 volunteer "non-statutory" libraries into a separately run trust. derby.gov.uk/news/2024/febr…

The Libraries at Risk Monitor provides a resource for the sector and beyond to keep track of proposed budget changes in local authorities that will impact libraries across the UK and Northern Ireland. cilip.org.uk/page/libraries…

Library supporters! Please use the hashtag #DearChancellor to tell HM Treasury why local public libraries urgently need support to protect them from a catastrophic wave of Local Government cuts. #LibrariesChangeLives

"Public libraries in Wales have received close to £1 million in funding from the Welsh Government to create a new shared digital platform." This would be £18m if sized up to England's population. LibraryOn, the closest English equivalent, received £3m uk.news.yahoo.com/welsh-librarie…

20% cut to opening hours in North Ayrshire expected, £450k cut, 9.5 FTE to be lost, schools library service "to be redesigned". irvinetimes.com/news/24328130.…

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay‌ so we're being very sustainable by taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look through, then giving them out again to other people who haven't read them yet. It's a great system. ♻️ #Libraries

Christopher Eccleston on “Lorraine” says the Summer Reading Challenge is “particularly important right now”, libraries are “seriously underfunded in this country” and visiting the library as a child made him proud of his mum and dad. youtu.be/R2a_5tkp7t4

Flintshire libraries return to council control on 31 October, from Aura leisure trust. This is the eighth library service farmed out to a trust in 2010s that has returned to council control.