Nice video piece from The Guardian covering the closure of libraries in Yorkshire, a situation described as the creation of the big society by a government keen to utilize local volunteers to run public services no longer deemed sustainable or valuable enough to fund. Seems the one ‘success’ story involves a local village pub that now hosts the book collection. So the future is clear….we need more local pubs.
[later] And this sunday the Independent has the story on the front page of its national edition. So public library funding is a top story in the UK. What does it take to make the national news in the US?