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Old Town Library is Moving to The Arts Centre on
9th September 2010

Old Town Library, Victoria Road, will close at 1.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 7th September 2010 and reopen at 4.00 p.m. on Thursday, 9th September, in The Arts Centre, Devizes Road.

Please Click here to see the extended Opening Hours and the Hours when there will be Staff in the library to assist you.

ARTS CENTRE PLANS

Thanks to all who came to a public exhibition of the Plans in the Arts Centre on 26th May. If you did not submit your comments on the day, please comment to Allyson Jordan of the Library Service : Contact Allyson Jordan Please click here to read the List of Improvements envisaged, published by the Library Service (you can also comment on these).

Documents : to view or request

Click to View :

Please click here for the Ombudsman's Response to our 2009 Complaint against Swindon Borough Council
Please Click here to read the Libraries and Museums Act 1964, with all amendments
Please click here to read The Wirral Inquiry Report (November 2009)

Other Documents and Reports :

Please e-mail me a copy of the UNISON People's Inquiry Report : April 2010
Please e-mail me a copy of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) summary performance data 2008-09
Please e-mail me a copy of the DCMS Library Review Consultation Document, 'Empower, Inform, Enrich' : 1st December 2009
Please e-mail me a copy of the All Party Parliamentary Group Report on 'Libraries, Literacy and Information Management' : September 2009

Mr Tim Coates

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

2nd September : Alan Gibbons : 'Bad News from Somerset'. 2nd September : Manchester Evening News : 'Library Boom as Bookworms Help City Buck National Trend' 2nd September : The Bookseller : 'Up to 40 Libraries Affected in Birmingham Review'. 1st September : The Birmingham Mail : 'Birmingham Spends �187m on New Library and Cuts Book Fund'. 1st September : The Swindon Advertiser : Letters from Mrs Anthea Beaumont and Shirley Burnham. 1st September : The Guardian : 'Frank Skinner's Attack on Free Libraries is a Bad Joke'. 31st August : The Bookseller : '�50m Could be Saved in London's Libraries'. 31st August : BBC Radio 4 : 'What's the Point of the Public Library?' [all on 'Latest News'] Swindon-wide Petition to Save our Community Libraries (see Menu Item : 'Petition' ... and find out where you can sign it ...)