
Episode 43
043 - Nonprofitization of Council Libraries in the UK feat. Alan Wylie
February 20, 20221h 6m
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Show Notes
https://twitter.com/wylie_alan
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Leisure_Limited
Readings
- Public libraries are vital to local communities – Labour must fight to defend them | openDemocracy (2018)
- The Fight for Britain's Libraries (2021)
- Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries (2021)
- Evidence on the use of volunteers in libraries and on volunteer-run libraries (2015, pdf)
- The UK no longer has a national public library system | Laura Swaffield | The Guardian (2017)