Thursday, 1st January 2009
Alan Gibbons, author and organiser of Campaign for the Book, reports that Kelvin Hopkins, the Labour MP for Luton North, is tabling an Early Day Motion in support of...
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Sunday, 21st December 2008
As the National Year of Reading draws to a close - with the announcement of Anthony Horowitz, Katie Price and reformed gang-leader Louis Ferrante (author of Unlocked: A...
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Sunday, 21st December 2008
Alan Gibbons, author and the power behind the Campaign for the Book, has made a submission to the DCMS Review calling for 'managed symbiosis of one form of technology, the...
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Friday, 19th December 2008
The Labour-Liberal Democrat council that runs the Wirral has approved the closure of 13 libraries with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs. A public consultation period ends on...
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Wednesday, 10th December 2008
Nielsen Book, proprietor of the BookScan sales data monitoring service, is to launch a service monitoring library borrowings. LibScan will begin operations in summer 2009....
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Tuesday, 25th November 2008
A system that, for the first time, allows libraries to manage the sales, rent and loaning of ebooks is being rolled out in Denmark. The move has been two years in the...
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Monday, 10th November 2008
Alan Gibbons, the former teacher and author of such books as The Demon Assassin , The Number 7 Shirt and the Hell's Underground series, believes the Campaign for the Book...
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Wednesday, 29th October 2008
There was no change in total library expenditure in 2007/2008, although a decrease of 1.4% is estimated for the following year, according to the latest LISU Material Funds...
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