The following has been sent to all on the email list and it will be put on Facebook. Please take a moment to read and make comment, whether you are from Croydon or further afield…
Steven Downes of Inside Croydon is, yet again, making wild accusations on Twitter – that a meeting on libraries has been called for and asks why has this not been done. Who called for this meeting? Does anyone know?
Only one resident suggested a meeting to me but he genuinely thought we could hold it in a Croydon library. Clearly we can’t. Nobody who responded to the last email though, regarding this, thought there was any need to meet.
The leader of Croydon Labour promised a public meeting but I’ve heard nothing, despite following this up twice.
I am starting to think that this attack is political, as others have suggested, as I spoke out with your thoughts regarding Labour’s co-op model. No one understood where this came from and no one understood what it really meant and whether it offered a better alternative to JLIS (Laing). The Campaign group was used by Croydon Labour to lend support to their push for co-op libraries. We are non-party political and had to speak out with what people told us.
Steven also wants an elected committee. I deal with national library campaigners via The Library Campaign and Speak Up for Libraries. Few, if any, have formal groups or committees. Even groups who have defended libraries right through to Judicial Review have no formal organisation. We do not take public funds. Does anyone want such a structure?
Thoughts please…..
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Many thanks
Elizabeth
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