tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5727503714935277719..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Every Child A Member - Damian HarveyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84136628232207317632014-06-11T09:24:20.158+01:002014-06-11T09:24:20.158+01:00ps Ignore the "In my opinion." Thanks.
...ps Ignore the "In my opinion." Thanks.<br /><br />pps A good post, Damian, even if it raised sadness as well as happy thoughts.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-55505602812454296172014-06-11T09:21:34.098+01:002014-06-11T09:21:34.098+01:00This a good initiative and paints a cheering and e...This a good initiative and paints a cheering and encouraging picture of new young readers, and of the keen enthusiastic work of the librarians in those areas. Hope it continues to boost all the local libraries.<br /><br />One of the features of UK libraries used to be that a child could go inside and hang about with the books (after school as well as on Saturdays and school holidays)without there being any time cost for busy parents. I'm not sure this idling in the company of books is possible now, for many reasons.<br /><br />Grieved by Andrew's information, coming alongside, though. The ploy of funding smaller and pleasantly distracting initiatives whilst cutting away at funding at a higher level is often used and is tawdry gilt indeed.<br /><br />It's myopinion that Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-39776205355636094402014-06-10T22:10:55.159+01:002014-06-10T22:10:55.159+01:00I don't think we've yet lost our public li...I don't think we've yet lost our public libraries, though with the conservatives in power, who knows when they'll take it into their heads to make savings that way? But schools - since some fool in government decided to give principals the power over the purse strings, they have found it easiest to start cutbacks with the school library, arguing, "oh, they're all using the Internet these days,what do we need with books?" With no school libraries, where will children go to read? My own principal has closed down our senior campus library and is coming for the rest of them as soon as he can.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22787476524816102772014-06-10T21:20:28.859+01:002014-06-10T21:20:28.859+01:00Heartening in a climate of library closures and cu...Heartening in a climate of library closures and cuts. Though, as Andrew says, mere gilt if there isn't actually a library for the child to be a member of. I grew up in a Belfast estate with a wonderful local library without which, I am quite sure, I could have Gone to the Bad. Sheena Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13847659993713606837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-1307534824268802622014-06-10T17:53:59.369+01:002014-06-10T17:53:59.369+01:00In the same month the 'Every Child a Member...In the same month the 'Every Child a Member' initiative was announced, Powys CC decided to axe the Bookrunner service, a mobile library that visits remote rural schools. Without it many children have no chance of borrowing books as the distances involved are far too great. The Welsh Gov't has begun a series of cuts, starting this year and going on for a further three, which will in all likelihood result in library closures all over this country. So as much as I'd like to applaud the Every Child a Member scheme, it is typical of every Welsh Gov't initiative - riddled with contradictions and ultimately, just cheap PR gimmick.Andrew Stronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875188855955154864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80238470272146792772014-06-10T11:57:42.088+01:002014-06-10T11:57:42.088+01:00What a wonderful story! Pity you can't join lo...What a wonderful story! Pity you can't join local libraries here if you're under 18 without parental permission. I can see why, but it's not encouraging. I joined the local library in the area where I work so I could show the kids what benefits they can get, and many are already members, but the having to get parents to sign makes a difference to whether the others will bother. <br /><br />Perhaps next someone will do something about the fact that school libraries are being closed down to save money...Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-21502025141447940172014-06-10T09:49:02.663+01:002014-06-10T09:49:02.663+01:00Applause for this!Applause for this!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.com