Book lovers - check your library - free reservations for disabled

Our libraries have never asked us to pay for reservations unless it's from the British Library, whether you will ever recieve your reservation is another matter completely as they tend to get "lost", our council dosn't seem to buy new books anymore and only in paperback, so it's easy to wait 6 months plus for a book.

TheCatWoman said:

our council dosn't seem to buy new books anymore

I know! I wish libraries would be better funded. Surely a Labour Government should see to this . The only plus at mine are the donators.

Library funding comes from councils rather than central government, so a council can spend as much or as little as it likes on things like libraries, they're not statutory, like say social services, so to support the statutory services they cut things like libraries.

Is your library privately run? I've never heard of the company you mention and our libraries aren't allowed to take donations.

I also think that it can depend on who's on your council, one of the comunity councillors told of a county council person who disliked trees and came round and pulled new saplings that the comunity council had put in and ordered the maintainance people to mow over any they saw. I mean like WTF? Maybe we have somebody or somebodies that don't read, so they don't prioritize libraries.

Library funding comes from councils rather than central government, so a council can spend as much or as little as it likes on things like libraries, they're not statutory, like say social services, so to support the statutory services they cut things like libraries.

Is your library privately run? I've never heard of the company you mention and our libraries aren't allowed to take donations.

I also think that it can depend on who's on your council, one of the comunity councillors told of a county council person who disliked trees and came round and pulled new saplings that the comunity council had put in and ordered the maintainance people to mow over any they saw. I mean like WTF? Maybe we have somebody or somebodies that don't read, so they don't prioritize libraries.

Some older books are very useful for researchers, there are many non fiction books that are more than 10 years old, but they are the latest on the subject

TheCatWoman said:

Is your library privately run?

Libraries Unlimited is a charity in my area [Devon] that runs libraries using volunteers and some paid staff. They take donated books  less than ten years old - rather strange as many older books are classics and still very useful. But yes, pity funding is abysmal and perhaps it needs national input to get more clout rather than relying on fund raising all the time. It ought to be part of the education system.