Search News and Blogs tagged libraries

Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries?

Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Article, Magazine, moving, P.S data on the UNISON National site.

Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries?

Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Behind the headlines, Magazine on the Magazine site.

Barnet library workers on strike

Dave Prentis takes support and solidarity to north London picket line in strike over plans to outsource library service

Article on the UNISON National site.

How can you run a campaign to defend a service?

Neath Port Talbot branch fought a successful campaign against library closures – so just how did they do it?

Blogs on the UNISON National site.

Public library service ‘hollowed out’ by job losses and cuts

UNISON backs BBC report that reveals loss of 8,000 jobs and 343 libraries in six years

Article on the UNISON National site.

The Elaines: speaking up for local libraries

The Elaines have travelled from Lancashire to London to speak up for local libraries. There are currently 74 libraries in Lancashire County, but by the end of the […]

Magazine on the UNISON National site.

‘Library cuts slow down research into my local area’

A local government member tells us about the effect of cuts on his community’s archive

Article on the UNISON National site.

Victories like this give us hope that the tide can turn

Of course these are tough times for public services and those who provide them – but victories like this give us hope that the tide can turn, and that the resources which have helped so many generations of working people will still be there to support generations to come.

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Union campaign saves local libraries

Neath Port Talbot reverses plans to close libraries, mobile library service and museum after UNISON-organised petition

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Yoga, stand-up comedy, singing children and books…

All in a day’s work for today’s librarian

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.

Thousands say no to Neath / Port Talbot library closures

Still time to sign petition which will be handed in to Neath and Port Talbot county borough on Monday 11 January

Article, News on the UNISON National site.