Just saw this on my FB feed and am reposting it here
Haringey Council has deleted all Children’s Librarian positions. Children in the borough no longer have access to trained professionals to help them further their reading experience, and the borough’s libraries no longer have staff dedicated to curating and updating their catalogue of children’s books. There is a protest outside Wood Green Library at 10.30am on Saturday 9th September. Please help spread the word. All details on this website:
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I don't think so, but I've just copied this from a post someone put up on Facebook. There is more info if you click on the word 'HOME' underneath the picture.
This is robustly denied by Haringey who are perhaps more reliable as a source than "someone on Facebook"
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/news/our-commitment-haringey-s-libraries
What they say on that post is that there will now only be dedicated Children's librarians at Hornsey, Wood Green and Marcus Garvey. Aside from that, they are saying that children's librarians will now be expected to do additional admin work, so partly cutting that aspect of their jobs. That is not quite the same as saying it is not happening at all. To be honest, I don't know enough about it to be able to comment definitively, and I am just passing on what I have read, but I don't think the Council's spin on this is entirely a refutation of this.
Your heading is "Haringey Council cuts all children's librarian positions". I'm not here to defend Haringey but unless you're calling them outright liars that is just not true. Anything like.
In fact the only reason I responded was because shortly after reading your post I got the Haringey Borough newsletter and was all ready to send a stinging response based on it. I was on your side.
I don't want to make a big thing out of this but I don't see anything particularly wrong in just having children's librarians in the three main libraries. I can't imagine a big need say in the nice little one off St Ann's Road. And it probably isn't a full time job so why shouldn't they do other things as well. This is a non-story.
I don't much care for social media at the best of times- let's write posts on something a little more reliable than Facebook hearsay.
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