The Library Campaign, after a period of silence, has organised a meeting this Saturday on the crisis in public libraries. It's short notice, but I shall certainly go if I can. I'm a life member, joining at the foundation conference in Sheffield in the late 1980s. The Campaign brings together library users, the trade unions that represent library workers and CILIP.
There are two speakers: Lyn Brown, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Libraries Literacy and Information Management and Rachel Cooke, whose writings in the Observer have done a great deal to bring the crisis in public libraries to peoples' attention.
