043 - Nonprofitization of Council Libraries in the UK feat. Alan Wylie

https://twitter.com/wylie_alan

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Leisure_Limited

Readings

• Public libraries are vital to local communities – Labour must fight to defend them | openDemocracy (2018)
• The Fight for Britain's Libraries (2021)
• Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries (2021)
• Evidence on the use of volunteers in libraries and on volunteer-run libraries (2015, pdf)
• The UK no longer has a national public library system | Laura Swaffield | The Guardian (2017)