Useful links and articles...

Please make sure you 'like' our Facebook page, for info about the Save Burnage Library campaign, and to share your thoughts. 

http://www.facebook.com/SaveBurnageLibrary


And check out some of these other links / articles about the proposed closures of Burnage and other Manchester libraries in areas of high need.
http://www.manchestergreenparty.org.uk/news/2013-02-19-burnage-library-letter.html



Fallowfield Library under threat too.
Save Fallowfield Library



Another library threatened with closure in north Manchester...
Campaign for New Moston Library




Very interesting report on potential of some councils to risk failing in their statutory duty to provide a 'comprehensive and efficient' library service to council tax payers.

• 'In the Minister's view, the wholesale transfer of library branches to volunteer groups is unlikely to meet the statutory criterion of providing a 'comprehensive and efficient' library service; but volunteer-run libraries can be valuable additions to the service;
• Councils which have transferred the running of libraries to community volunteers must continue to give them the necessary support to maintain the service, otherwise they may be viewed as "closures by stealth"; '

Report by Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee into library closures