A few thoughts

24Aug07

Some things I plan to come back to after the Bank holiday weekend:-

• Hillingdon: how significant is the use of ‘ ‘ around qualified, as in ‘qualified’ librarians?
• Hillingdon: and since when was a library a retail centre?
• Hillingdon: why couldn’t a local coffee shop have been given the opportunity? Why go for the sanctimonious milk peddlers?
• Hillingdon: it’s all about books and frontline issue/return services. Oh and coffee. Are libraries just nice buildings with books and a cafe? Isn’t that what Waterstones was some time ago, and that model isn’t working for them? What about the other roles and value of libraries? 
• Librarians: why do so many hate the job they do? Why do so many piss on their own chips? Why so little promotion of the value staff can add?
• Community involvement: how do people like John Pateman suggest this will work? And why do they seem to think that there is a tyranny of librarians which the ‘community’ are too meek to complain about? Come to it, who are the ‘community’?
• Community involvement: does the SACRE model offer a way forward?

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