Public libraries are being hit by a wave of proposals to resurrect a service in serious decline. Demos recently published Overdue, which proposes a National Library Development Agency. Earlier this year, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport published its long-awaited framework for the future of libraries. And where the Demos publication has set the cat among the pigeons, the framework document is hardly radical and at other times might have been politely ignored.
But many in the sector recognise this is crunch time: with a polarised age profile of users, problems in the recruitment and retention of staff, under-investment and fierce competition from the high street, library services desperately need to re-invent themselves or face obsolescence.
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