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Northern Lights author Philip Pullman has launched an attack on the government's library policy, telling campaigners they were fighting a "war against stupidity", and criticising Brent council for "political bullshit" over its library closures.
He made the speech as library campaigners from across the country vowed to work together to put pressure on government, at a pioneering day conference held in London on Saturday (22nd October).
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One third of Bolton's public libraries are set to be closed after a full council meeting last night (19th October) endorsed the decision taken by the Labour-run council's ruling executive committee a week ago.
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Camden library campaigners have become the latest group to apply for judicial review over library closures.
The Camden Public Library User Group has instructed solicitors Bindmans to lodge an application for judicial review, according to a report in the Camden New Journal. Bindmans is the law firm which acted for Brent Save Our Six Libraries, which last week lost its judicial review challenge against the library closures.
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 9/22/2011
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Library campaigners have expressed intense disappointment with the Arts Council’s first strategy document on libraries. with one claiming it is not "devised to meet people's needs".
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Former children's laureate Jacqueline Wilson is the latest high-profile author to take part in a fundraising benefit in aid of Brent's six threatened libraries.
Wilson will do the event at 6pm on 28th September at St Martin's Church in Mortimer Road, London, the same venue that hosted a packed benefit from author Alan Bennett in May.
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Surrey council now plans to hand 19 libraries over to community management, or close them, according to local news site Your Local Guardian.
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People in the least deprived areas of England are most likely to have visited a library in the past 12 months, according to new government statistics.
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The government and local authorities are not fulfilling the statutory duties laid out in the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, according to the man who drafted it.
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The lawyer representing Brent library campaigners has warned Brent council not to undermine the borough's library services while both parties await the results of July's High Court judicial review.
The judge in the case, Mr Justice Ouseley, has indicated he will not publish his decision until October. John Halford of law firm Bindmans, which represented the campaigners, said: "This is an important test case and it is clear that the court is giving it a commensurate degree of thought and attention.
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The judge handling the Brent libraries High Court judicial review case will give his judgment in October, it has been confirmed.
Mr Justice Ouseley had initially indicated the judgement might come as early as this month. Brent council has promised to keep the six libraries threatened with closure open until the decision is given.
The judicial review hearing was held in July. Gloucestershire and Somerset councils' library service plans will go to judicial review at the end of September.
Wokingham borough council plans to begin discussions this month with private companies interested in taking over the running of the borough's libraries.
According to a report in the Wokingham Times, the council's executive member for internal services, councillor UllaKarin Clark, said she hoped to have between three and six interested organisations by early August. "We will then begin a more detailed discussion known as competitive dialogue," she said.
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The defence of the public library service has entered a new phase with the judicial review hearing in the High Court into Brent council’s contentious proposal to close six of its 12 libraries.
The case was the first to be heard but more will swiftly follow, as campaigners frustrated by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport’s unwillingness to order a public inquiry into closures turn to the law for urgent action before their libraries are closed for good.
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An annual National Libraries Day looks set to become a reality after widespread support for the scheme at an early planning meeting held this morning (26th May).
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