Comments on: Library service shake-up: Original community hub plan looks likely to go ahead https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/library-service-shake-original-proposal-recommended/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=library-service-shake-original-proposal-recommended of Spalding and South Holland Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:58:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 By: Bobrkh https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/library-service-shake-original-proposal-recommended/#comment-162 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:58:12 +0000 https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/?p=21738#comment-162 When I first came to work in Lincolnshire over forty years ago, I thought it was quaint how feudal the county still was. I soon became disillusioned with the system and having read this article, I see nothing has changed. Cllr Worth says “I look forward to the views of the scrutiny committee” but the executive ignored them before and I fully expect them to do so again. This decision is fuelled by political ideology. What has happened to a professionally run library service for the benefit of all Lincolnshire people?
I have the greatest respect and support for volunteers helping in their local library but having to find sources of funding to keep open and at the same time staff a community hub is very different. When the £5,167 running costs are no longer available after the council’s four year period, the hubs are no longer the council’s responsibility. At least thirty to forty community hubs will be looking for sources of funding across Lincolnshire. How many will survive and will they be in the areas that need them most?

“Some local authorities struggle to know how to deliver – they tend to panic, go for closures or volunteers. That will be a disaster.”
(Westminster Media Forum Event: From a speech by William Sieghart.)

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