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From: Sue Morgan, Ventnor
We have just learnt from IoWCC HQ that the links which local libraries have with their communities are to be seriously undermined, as the staffing is to become more peripatetic.
There will be no “Ventnor team” as such.
I am sure that all Ventnor Library users will be upset to learn that we are to lose our wonderful library staff, although they may still have a role within the service.
How does this fit with promotion of localism?
This seems particularly surprising given this Government’s supposed aim of promoting localism and community. The proposed diminution of personal service fits in well with the “supermarket” model of libraries originally promoted by the IoW CC with their Libraries “Extra” and Libraries “Local”.
Altogether, with the closure of five libraries (as administered by the IoW CC), the reduced opening hours of a further four libraries and the loss of staff designated to a particular library, we are heading towards a very diminished library service for the citizens of the Isle of Wight.
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