A campaign to save Aspley, Basford, and Radford Lenton libraries from closure.
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29 May 2024
Followers, supporters, campaigners & friends! Please sign & share our new petition. We're back! Ready to fight & win again!
This time we need to save FOUR beloved & vital community libraries: Aspley, Basford, Bilborough and Radford Lenton.
Sign & share ⬇️
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
10 Sep 2024
One of the managers involved in trying to shut down the Aspley library told me it was because the library was not being used. It’s on the edge of a huge “council estate”. She pushed for the new Sherwood library in preference to it. Typical #CultOfManagerialism incompetence.
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
6 Sep 2024
Paid, professional library staff are essential for an accountable and professional library system. Volunteers do great work but every library should have a paid, professional librarian present. A school would never be run by volunteers - why should libraries?
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
6 Sep 2024
On @BBCr4today @richove calls on Govt to address 'critical' issues in #Libraries. "Responsibility is held by Govt to provide a comprehensive & efficient library service" - service needs to be more 'joined up' - an "infrastructure for democracy" From 02:23 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022l…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
8 Sep 2024
The library minister also has statutory duty to 'promote the improvement of the public library service' - both duties can be interpreted with far greater ambition
6 Sep 2024
On @BBCr4today @richove calls on Govt to address 'critical' issues in #Libraries. "Responsibility is held by Govt to provide a comprehensive & efficient library service" - service needs to be more 'joined up' - an "infrastructure for democracy" From 02:23 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022l…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Local/national campaigners & unions have been using deprivation indices etc to argue against library cuts and closures for years, I wrote a guide to doing this for ‘Speak up for Libraries’. Most EIA’s like consultations aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
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10 Sep 2024
In Nottingham when we fought 3 library closures in 2022 the equality impact assessments were damning. It was VERY obvious libraries targeted were in areas that had the most need for resources & support. The same 3 libraries & another in a similar area are under threat again.
8 Sep 2024
Such an eye-opener, I don’t think library closures had been mapped against index of multiple deprivation before.Surely equality impact assessment should have picked this up. Need to fix council underfunding. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
9 Sep 2024
📚Nottingham libraries latest:
🟢 Snags preventing opening of "much-delayed" Sherwood Library to be fixed in next 3 weeks
🟢 Libraries consultation got 5k responses. Alternatives to closures being considered
@Notts_TV @SaveNottmLib #LDReporter
Read ➡️ nottstv.com/snags-preventing…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
6 Sep 2024
@SaveNottmLib @BBCr4today The Labour led Nottingham City council is planning to close yet more libraries - it is clear that @UKLabour has no vision for libraries seeing them as a burden not an agent of social mobility
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
6 Sep 2024
@mrjamesob wouldn’t it be good if we had a renewed vision for libraries in our communities ?
5 Sep 2024
If you use a Nottingham library, especially if you use one of the libraries under threat of closure, we encourage you to please respond to this survey from @guardian asking how libraries shape your life. Reply here too if you'd like to share with us 💚📚💜
theguardian.com/books/articl…
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5 Sep 2024
If you use a Nottingham library, especially if you use one of the libraries under threat of closure, we encourage you to please respond to this survey from @guardian asking how libraries shape your life. Reply here too if you'd like to share with us 💚📚💜
theguardian.com/books/articl…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
4 Sep 2024
Artwork by Cody Davis - Year 6, St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School. Lets spread this far and wide.
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
30 Aug 2024
“Modesty may be part of libraries’ DNA, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to shout about.”: the new edition of the Bookseller is libraries-themed. thebookseller.com/editors-le…
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4 Sep 2024
"Closing libraries is an act of cruelty" - @MichaelRosenYes illustration from @chrisriddell50
We absolutely agree which is why we're trying our hardest to ensure @ng_labour @MyNottingham do not close 4 libraries in our city! Support our campaign here:
tinyurl.com/NottmSOL
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4 Sep 2024
Very much tracks with the situation in Nottingham. Councillors pretended to be offended when we asked why cuts were being targeted in working class areas. And yet they are. Support our campaign, sign our petition here:
tinyurl.com/NottmSOL
3 Sep 2024
Important new analysis from @BBCNews reveals extent of library cuts since 2016. The poorest areas are around four times more likely to lose a local library than the richest. Our CEO @HunterIsobel is quoted bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
3 Sep 2024
This is an enormous scandal and needs to be a priority for the new Government. Libraries are absolutely vital community assets, particularly in the most deprived past of the country. We’re proud to champion them through @WarmWelcome_UK
3 Sep 2024
Important new analysis from @BBCNews reveals extent of library cuts since 2016. The poorest areas are around four times more likely to lose a local library than the richest. Our CEO @HunterIsobel is quoted bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
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4 Sep 2024
How does this work when you are simultaneously proposing to close libraries? Upgrades to where? Aspley? Basford? Bilborough? Radford Lenton? Or do you still intend to close these?
@CllrNeghat @Ethan_Radford_ @ng_labour @NottmLibraries @MyNottingham
westbridgfordwire.com/nottin…
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30 Aug 2024
We're at 2000 signatures to our petition to #SaveOurLibraries can you share to help us reach 3000?!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
22 Aug 2024
Calling all library lovers!
22 Aug 2024
Every Birmingham library is precious & worth fighting for. As @BhamCityCouncil announces proposals for closures, cuts and reduced services, we urge you to push back. Attend consultation meetings, write to yr councillor & join protests as they happen. Follow @BrumLibraries 🖤
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
22 Aug 2024
Hi @lisanandy @RhonddaBryant please call a moratorium on library cuts & closures and meet with representatives from all interested parties inc users, unions, campaigners & prof orgs to discuss the way forward.
We can’t go on like this.
#savelibraries
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Save Nottingham Libraries retweeted
21 Aug 2024
Just booked a stall for Nottingham Green Festival. The organisers promise us good weather and that the gazebo we are in will not blow away. Because they can see the future. And we believe them.
We will be the ones without flowers in our hair. Well maybe @GiselleKLeeb will.
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