Meeting on Saturday 1st October
NO to an Age of Ignorance!
NO to an Age of Ignorance!
SATURDAY 25 JUNE 11 a.m. The next venue in our leafleting campaign to support Birmingham’s community libraries is outside Sparkhill Library on Saturday 25 June between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.. The aim is to raise public awareness that all of these libraries are under threat in the current review of local services by Birmingham City Council,…
WE NEED THIS: – A community library – Properly paid, trained and permanent librarians – Plenty of opening hours, facilities and new books – Parent and toddler groups – Coffee mornings – Teenage readers groups – School holiday clubs – Study facilities and more . . . NOT THIS: – A “hub” that contains a…
Dear supporters, please join us this Saturday. We are campaigning to support Birmingham’s community libraries, which are under threat in the current review of local services by Birmingham City Council, which is seeking to make substantial cuts to all of its budgets. We will be holding leafleting sessions at individual libraries to raise public awareness,…
The public meeting to launch campaign to oppose cuts and closures to our Community Library service was held on 18th January 2016 at Birmingham Council House, organised by @FoLoB_ Ten key points raised during the meeting: 1. book fund – no new books means people stop going to libraries 2. computers are not a substitute…
…Our Future! Public meeting: 7 pm on Monday 18 January 2016 at the Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham to debate the question: what next for Birmingham’s public libraries? We invite all those interested in protecting an essential part of the city’s infrastructure to discuss the library service of the future. Download the flyer: January 18th…
This event is presented by the Unison Branch of Birmingham University, pitched as a celebration of the importance of properly staffed and funded libraries to education and society as a whole, in the run-up to the University’s move to a new building in 2016. The Branch says : ‘To give the event a wider focus…