Latest News from the Campaign

Answers to Baroness Ros Scott's Questions in House of Lords

Please click here to read the Questions tabled by Baroness Ros Scott in the House of Lords and the Replies received to date.

Confused about the seemingly endless Ministerial saga formerly known as the DCMS Modernisation Review of Public Libraries ? Please click here to read The Chief Executive of CILIP, Bob McKee's 'Margaret's Miscellany' : 1st December

Latest National and Local News

Please click here to read : The Guardian : 'The Battle of Britain's Libraries' : 8th March (includes Swindon)

Please click here to read : The Swindon Advertiser 'Library Saviour is Heralded in Press' (includes a quote from Councillor Foley re the Arts Centre merger - "A public exhibition in April" and "work on Arts Centre - in the summer") : 8th March

Please click here to read : The Good Library Guide : 'We Have Lost 1000
Libraries-worth of Books' : 8th March

Please click here to read : Alan Gibbons Blog : 'Open Letter by Library Campaigner, Shirley Burnham' : 3rd March

Please click here to read : The Bookseller : 'Libraries Most Vulnerable to Public Service Cuts' : 1st March

Please click here to read : The Daily Mail : 'Domesday Book 2010 - Strip Clubs Soaring, Libraries Disappearing' : 22nd February

Please click here to read : The Daily Telegraph : 'Half of Children Don't Read Fiction' : 17th February

Please click here to read : 'Ambiguity remains over Library Service Status' : The Bookseller : 12th February (and view comments)

Please click here to meet Perkins and read the latest on the 'Good Library Blog'

For more local and national news reports, please see our archive on 'Contact Us' page ....

Our thanks for an excellent talk on
28th January at the
Central Library

Mr Tim Coates

Author, Tim Coates, talked to us about his new book, Delane's War.

Click here to read : The Times : "How The Times Went to War with a Government" (an extract from 'Delane's War').

Our thanks to the Library Service and to Tim, for an informative and fascinating evening.

Complaint : Ombudsman's Decision : 1st October 2009

A formal complaint was submitted to Swindon Council re. its Decision on 23 February 2009 to Close Libraries.

Please click here to access details of the complaint and the Ombudsman's response.