It Harpooned One Night #GreenlandRomcoms

There are those, both here and in the United States, who struggle to persuade both library professionals & politicians who fund them, that the value of a local public library is its provision of reading material and a place to read, for local people. This ridiculous announcement hurts in every way.

I love this clip of Horn and friends from The Producers doc doing a scratch version www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWY...

Will do! Thanks again

Alas I am on the wrong side of the pond, but thank you for your support, it can, like funding, be thin on the ground.

I recently had to turn down 'warm space' funding because it would have meant having to run more events in our libraries. We have strong upward trends in borrowing and attendance that I'm not throwing away for seated chair yoga or basket weaving!

Agreed, and while I think there is good ‘social value’ in events that serve the community and align with the purpose of libraries, there is way too much diversity into counterproductive irrelevance in too many libraries. No point ‘getting new faces in’ at the cost of driving existing users out.

So the way to measure a library's social value is "speaking with users, staff and partners and then looking at things such as running costs, event attendance and visitor figures" I have nothing against that, but surely issue figures too? We are still concerned with books no?

Birthday by The Sugarcubes. I bought the 7” based on seeing a Melody Maker cover, took it home and put it on with no preconceptions and then just played it over and over. Changed everything.