Calling all library lovers!

Hi Lisa Nandy MP Chris Bryant please call a moratorium on library cuts & closures and meet with representatives from all interested parties inc users, unions, campaigners & prof orgs to discuss the way forward. We can’t go on like this. #savelibraries

We're at 2000 signatures to our petition to #SaveOurLibraries can you share to help us reach 3000?! actionnetwork.org/petitions/save…

Please consider signing. These places are so important. And so much more than libraries.

“Modesty may be part of libraries’ DNA, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to shout about.”: the new edition of the Bookseller is libraries-themed. thebookseller.com/editors-letter…

This is an enormous scandal and needs to be a priority for the new Government. Libraries are absolutely vital community assets, particularly in the most deprived past of the country. We’re proud to champion them through Warm Welcome UK @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social

How does this work when you are simultaneously proposing to close libraries? Upgrades to where? Aspley? Basford? Bilborough? Radford Lenton? Or do you still intend to close these? Neghat Khan Cllr Ethan Radford Nottingham Labour Nottingham City Libraries 🏹 My Nottingham westbridgfordwire.com/nottingham-cit…

Very much tracks with the situation in Nottingham. Councillors pretended to be offended when we asked why cuts were being targeted in working class areas. And yet they are. Support our campaign, sign our petition here: tinyurl.com/NottmSOL

"Closing libraries is an act of cruelty" - Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 illustration from chris riddell We absolutely agree which is why we're trying our hardest to ensure Nottingham Labour 🏹 My Nottingham do not close 4 libraries in our city! Support our campaign here: tinyurl.com/NottmSOL

Artwork by Cody Davis - Year 6, St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School. Lets spread this far and wide.

If you use a Nottingham library, especially if you use one of the libraries under threat of closure, we encourage you to please respond to this survey from The Guardian asking how libraries shape your life. Reply here too if you'd like to share with us 💚📚💜 theguardian.com/books/article/…

Save Nottingham Libraries BBC Radio 4 Today The Labour led Nottingham City council is planning to close yet more libraries - it is clear that The Labour Party has no vision for libraries seeing them as a burden not an agent of social mobility

On BBC Radio 4 Today @richove calls on Govt to address 'critical' issues in #Libraries. "Responsibility is held by Govt to provide a comprehensive & efficient library service" - service needs to be more 'joined up' - an "infrastructure for democracy" From 02:23 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

James O'Brien wouldn’t it be good if we had a renewed vision for libraries in our communities ?

CILIP BBC Radio 4 Today @richove Paid, professional library staff are essential for an accountable and professional library system. Volunteers do great work but every library should have a paid, professional librarian present. A school would never be run by volunteers - why should libraries?

The library minister also has statutory duty to 'promote the improvement of the public library service' - both duties can be interpreted with far greater ambition

Ayub Khan MBE Local/national campaigners & unions have been using deprivation indices etc to argue against library cuts and closures for years, I wrote a guide to doing this for ‘Speak up for Libraries’. Most EIA’s like consultations aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

📚Nottingham libraries latest: 🟢 Snags preventing opening of "much-delayed" Sherwood Library to be fixed in next 3 weeks 🟢 Libraries consultation got 5k responses. Alternatives to closures being considered Notts TV Save Nottingham Libraries #LDReporter Read ➡️ nottstv.com/snags-preventi…

In Nottingham when we fought 3 library closures in 2022 the equality impact assessments were damning. It was VERY obvious libraries targeted were in areas that had the most need for resources & support. The same 3 libraries & another in a similar area are under threat again.

Save Nottingham Libraries One of the managers involved in trying to shut down the Aspley library told me it was because the library was not being used. It’s on the edge of a huge “council estate”. She pushed for the new Sherwood library in preference to it. Typical #CultOfManagerialism incompetence.