Latest News from the Campaign - 2016    Please View in EXPLORER !

Use the library!

Use Old Town Library regularly, to show that we need to keep it WITH its staff!

Old Town Library is open in the Arts Centre on Devizes Road.   Library Information : please Click here  to see Opening Hours and Staffed Hours. Story Time for pre-schoolers is every Tuesday in term-time, at 2.15 p.m.

Please fill in the Swindon Libraries Survey, attend the council's 'engagement session' 2.30-4.30 Fri 11th March in the Library and the Fundraiser 9.30 to 12.00 on Saturday at Los Gatos!

Click here   to take the Council's 'Libraries Survey' Online
Click here   to get more Info

Useful websites
Click here   for Public Libraries News
Click here  for Don't Privatise Libraries Blog
Click here  for The Library Campaign
Click here  for Voices for The Library
Click here   for 'What do public library workers do?'

2015/16: Latest News from Swindon

Please click here   to read : Question Everything They Tell You - Blog : 'A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist' - Oxfordshire and Swindon's library proposals discussed : 5th March 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Campaigners opposed to Swindon library proposals' - launch of borough-wide petition outside Old Town Library : 1st March 2016

Please click here   to see : Swindon Advertiser : Protest Demo : Photograph -- Defence of Swindon Libraries & staff prominent! : 27th February 2016

Please click here   to read : The Library Campaign : 'Briefing Paper for Libraries Taskforce visit to Swindon' : 25th February 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Government's library taskforce visits Swindon' : 24th February 2016

Please click here   to read: Swindon Advertiser : 'Effects of Library Cuts' -- Sarah Church, Shrivenham : 18th February 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Volunteer library operator says model can work' : 16th February 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Librarians shown appreciation with giant Valentine's Day card' : 13th February 2016

Please click here to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'What do you want from the library service?' (consultation starts next week) : 12th February 2016

Please click here to read : The Guardian : Letter from Shareen Campbell, Swindon : 12th February 2016

Please click here   to read: The Guardian : 'Is this the final chapter for Swindon's libraries as locals denounce 60% cuts?' : 9th February 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : Letter from Steve Harcourt, Chair, Wroughton Parish Council - 'Library calls not useful' : 9th February 2016

Please click here   to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Council urged to reconsider library decision' : 5th February 2016

Please click here   to read Swindon Advertiser : 'Campaigner Shirley Burnham fears for future of town's libraries' : 4th February 2016

Please click here   to read : 'Nearly all libraries will be run by volunteers in 2020' : 3rd February 2016

Please click here  to read : Swindon Advertiser : 'Threat to libraries as more cuts loom in Swindon' : 3rd December 2015

Please click here   to read: Swindon Borough Council : 'Swindon Borough Council Publishes Draft 2017-17 Budget' : 1st December 2015

Any comments?

You can mail the Lead Member for Libraries, Councillor Gary Perkins Mail Councillor Perkins

the Leader of the Council, Councillor David Renard : Mail Councillor Renard

Contact Robert Buckland MP

Please use the link below if you wish to contact
Robert Buckland MP for South Swindon :    Mail Robert Buckland MP