I'm honoured to see that this blog is mentioned in this month's Library and Information Update (though not in the sections available online) in Edward Dudley's Clip Board column. Edward's' theme is how librarians talk to one another.
Elsewhere, Chris Armstrong's intervention in the debate on public library supply is attracting attention. I've been out of circulation for a while, so missed Richard Charkin of Macmillan's speech to the National Acquisitions Group, in which he seems to swallow the Tim Coates line in toto, to wit that public libraries are filled to bursting with overpaid managers who spend the book fund on expense account lunches.
I was going to stand in the elections for CILIP Council this autumn, but had to withdraw my candidature, but if I were standing, a major part of my platform would be to help to build an organisation that can make forthright, public, convincing rebuttals of Coates and Charkin. Once there was a Triple Alliance of the old Library Association, the Library Campaign and the trade unions that organise library and information workers. We need that alliance again.
