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Haringey to be congratulated for Library Service Statement

HARINGEY Council is to be congratulated for its statement yesterday about its commitment to our library service.

This is in contrast to the plans of some other councils in the country. Haringey's intention to expand the role of libraries, rather than close them, is definitely the right policy.

At least for once the council is leading and for the right reasons, in the right direction.

 

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on February 10, 2011 at 22:13
And there was me thinking you wanted to do a takeover on SG Library, not a makeover. Whatever turns you folks on of course, fine. But I've had my whatsits kicked knuckles rapped for less outrageous trolling than this. Notice you missed out the Vatican Libraries/Museums, John. Now there's real porn!
Permalink Reply by Liz on February 10, 2011 at 22:21
Ah, this is not trolling...going massively off the point, yes. Sorry. Simmer down McMullan and stop luring us me off topic with your smutty pics
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on February 10, 2011 at 22:46

Oh I can be worse. This is the view from the 7th floor of my University library in Wellington. I used to sit either there or in the basement with the real nerds (which had just as good a view). I will never forget the silence that we all worked in and the fact that one day a very pretty post-grad student ripped up a piece of paper, chewed it into a ball and threw it very accurately at a snoring student near me.

 

I guess Simon Jenkins was at home in his nice quiet house with his pornographic library. I can honestly say I would not have been able to pass my exams had it not been for the access I had to that library, full of books and other quiet students. Who knows what it might be like in a house where you're eligible for EMA.

Permalink Reply by StephenBln on February 10, 2011 at 23:12

perhaps the style of the library influences the way people think:

 

what about some teutonic zack:zack?

 

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grimm-zentrum.hu-berl...

 

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_C3OIjT...

Permalink Reply by John D on February 11, 2011 at 2:29
OMG John !! I used to live just round the corner from La Quincaillerie !! :) Great place for brunch. As you might guess, it used to be an ironmongers.
Permalink Reply by GK/OD on February 11, 2011 at 0:15

Thanks for your library porn John. Very impressive institutions by the look.

May visit some.

Makes my wall of books look very very insipid :)

Permalink Reply by Liz on February 11, 2011 at 20:22
Article by Claire Kober on LocalGov.co.uk about Haringey plans for the libraries.
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on February 11, 2011 at 21:02

Oh thank you, thank you, Auntie Claire, for saving all our nice bookie-wooks. My Nan's Mum is walking the streets of Harringay and Totnam in her shift, nocking all the doors. She's looking for her old boyfriend, Al Zheimer, but my Nan says he went back to Germany in 1939. Anyway, when she gets tired of walking up the Ladder, my Mum says, she'll probly drop into your new drop-dead senther in our Library. That would be good. Bye, Auntie Claire, and thanks again for making the wheels on my bus go round and round.

 

Charmaine (Age 4 and a kwater)

Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on February 12, 2011 at 9:53

Do I detect a note of scepticism, OAE?

As you may have guessed, I'm not a big fan of the oh-great-leader / Mayors / superheads/ way of running things. But sometimes things on LocalGov website are accurate. And even when they appear under the byline of a Council Leader.

Haringey libraries are a success story and they have developed a wide range of extended projects and services. This does not mean they are able to fill every gap created by the Government's cuts. But nor is anyone suggesting they can.

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on February 12, 2011 at 10:53
Blame Charmaine, Alan. I tried to tell her but that young lady has developed a mordant streak of cynicism far beyond her years. I think it started after she was jilted in love by Lammy's young lad a year or two ago. I think she likes Auntie Claire but still misses her Gorgeous Uncle George who, she says, was good with kids despite what the papers say.
Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on February 12, 2011 at 16:44

I'm blaming nobody. Except of course people in Government who haven't noticed that bloodletting is rarely beneficial to either the body physic or the body politic.

 

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