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Council ready to hand over its libraries
PLANS to hand over the running of North Yorkshire County Council’s libraries to local communities as the authority battles to make £69m in savings to counter the Government’s cuts were approved by senior politicians yesterday.
The council’s executive backed the proposals to transfer the running of many of its 42 libraries to volunteers, which the Yorkshire Post revealed last month was set to prove a success following a huge reaction from the public.
But it emerged earlier this month that more than a fifth of the library service’s workforce is due to be axed with 36 posts going from 177 full-time staff, while opening hours in many branches are to be cut. All North Yorkshire’s branches will be retained, with the exception of Malton and Norton libraries which will be merged into one. The 41 remaining branches will be run either by the county council’s library service, volunteers, or a combination of both.
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Shirley Burnham
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 03:05 PMIt is interesting, given the likely decimation of North Yorkshire's excellent library service, that a Parliamentary Select Committee announced yesterday that it is to conduct an inquiry into library closures, to examine whether cuts are compatible with statutory duties. This news is important and one hopes that the Yorkshire Post might pursue the story.
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