Third Leg of ‘Grand Tour of Barnet Libraries’ kicks off Saturday 25 April 11 am Chipping Barnet Library

Third Leg of ‘Grand Tour of Barnet Libraries’ kicks off Saturday 25 April 11 am Chipping Barnet Library

London Metropolitan Brass Band will be providing entertainment between 11- 11.30 am then marching part of the route.

The march is from Chipping Barnet to Osidge Library via East Barnet Library.

To view route click here

To view poster click here

To view flyer click here

“Save Barnet Libraries goes all Bollywood”

“Save Barnet Libraries goes all Bollywood”

Save Barnet Libraries campaign gets a Bollywood makeover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1RzsOerMo&feature=youtu.be

Saturday 28 March saw the beginning of the Grand Tour of Barnet Libraries.

Nicole Burstein, author of Othergirl (young adult novel) and lifelong member of Edgware Library spoke of her love and inspiration of her local Library.

The march then took off to Burnt Oak and Mill Hill Library.

11 March meet outside Hendon Library for 11 am.

Details of speakers at the next three gigs are below.

11 April: Caroline Green, Dark Ride, Cracks, Hold Your Breath, Fragments (young adult novels)

25 April: Alec Worley, sci-fi comics, graphic novel Age of the Wolf, Mike Carey, sci-fi comics and novels

9 May: Children’s book authors: Linda Nissen Samuels, Alan Gibbons, Angela Kanter

· Flyer for the march here

· Watch short animation here

Save Barnet Libraries Tour kicks off tomorrow

Save Barnet Libraries Tour kicks off tomorrow

Cartoon by Ros Asquith

The grand tour of Barnet Libraries kicks off in Edgware tomorrow morning.

There is an impressive line-up of speakers for the Tour

Speakers

28 March: Nicole Burstein, author of Othergirl (young adult novel)

11 April: Caroline Green, Dark Ride, Cracks, Hold Your Breath, Fragments (young adult novels)

25 April: Alec Worley, sci-fi comics, graphic novel Age of the Wolf, Mike Carey, sci-fi comics and novels

9 May: Children’s book authors: Linda Nissen Samuels, Alan Gibbons, Angela Kanter

Messages of support so far from:

Cartoonist Ros Asquith, Claudia Roden, and Nicola Solomon (Chief Executive of the Society of Authors).

Flyer for the march here

Route of the first march from Edgware here

Watch short animation about Barnet here

UNISON request for extension to public consultation on Libraries refused

Barnet UNISON earlier this week wrote to the Council expressing concern that the public’s access to the Library Review Consultation documents in the Libraries is being restricted.

At a meeting on the 16 October  2014 UNISON expressed concern about the current reliability of ICT in Libraries as this would hamper the availability of  documents for the public. At that meeting UNISON was assured that printed versions would be available  to cover this eventuality.

Our concerns have been borne out by events this week as UNISON has learnt that printed documents will not now be in the Libraries until the 1st December and there have been ICT issues!

UNISON noted Drop-in sessions are now taking place in the Libraries for the public. UNISON questioned the validity of the whole consultation process due to the lack of document provision.


In light of these facts UNISON requested an extension to the consultation period.

Our request was refused. 
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