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My Employment History Part 8 (or how I ended up working in a library)

November 29, 2016 — 0 Comments

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House of Lords attacks the government over library closures | via The Guardian

October 22, 2016 — 2 Comments

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Banned Books Week: closing libraries is tantamount to censorship | CILIP

September 29, 2016 — 1 Comment

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Oxfordshire to close mobile library service

June 9, 2016 — 2 Comments

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Libraries over two generations

May 19, 2016 — 0 Comments

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Libraries and Me

May 11, 2016 — 2 Comments

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Take children to the library!

May 3, 2016 — 0 Comments

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‘A place of refuge and reinvention’: what my local library means to me | UK news | The Guardian

April 11, 2016 — 2 Comments

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London’s Feminist Library Faces Shutting Down 30 Years Of History

March 19, 2016 — 1 Comment

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What’s your story? A library marketing campaign

March 17, 2016 — 0 Comments