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BrumTogether Heritage

Birmingham Libraries – Thriller or Fantasy?

Birmingham’s botched consultation over Library Services has sparked outrage, proposing massive cuts in services and a vague move to voluntary sector/ volunteer led services. However, reading top lines of Birmingham Council Literature you’d be forgiven for thinking the ‘revamp’ or ‘reset’ was a well considered, much needed move from decrepit libraries to a modern service […]

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Save our Libraries, Save Ourselves

On 11th May we walked with Birmingham Loves Libraries and local library lovers a distance of some 5 miles between Druids Heath and Selly Oak Libraries and talked to people about why Libraries were important to them. Many of Birmigham’s Public Libraries were built as part of a campaign to provide public libraries within walking […]