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Kirklees set to close 24 of its 26 libraries
30 Jul 2014:Situation is 'only the worst in a succession of similar cuts throughout the country', say campaigners
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21 Oct 2014:
Mary O’Hara: Sex and religion have long vexed self-appointed guardians of US school and library reading habits, but now objectors are trying to add social inequality to their list of unacceptable topics
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20 Oct 2014: The visual op-ed: Hope and change may have been a little overdramatic. But hopefully these bold ideas will change the way you think about a politician’s legacy – or at least design
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13 Oct 2014:
Part polemic and part love letter, the monologue Spine responds to library closures. It’s not just about the freedom of learning, finds Catherine Love, but also a personal narrative about the austerity agenda
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10 Oct 2014: Step back in time at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and learn how to print pages by hand on 18th-century presses
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10 Oct 2014: Authors including Cathy Cassidy, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Caitlin Moran are protesting the possible closure of 11 of 18 of Liverpool’s libraries, writes Alison Flood
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8 Oct 2014:
MP David Blunkett says it would be ‘breathtaking cheek’ for government to launch inquiry over move prompted by cuts
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2 Oct 2014: Terror and Wonder: the Gothic Imagination is Britain’s largest-ever exhibition devoted to the literature of fear, blood and darkness, writes Alison Flood
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1 Oct 2014: The Brazilian artist has transfigured this quiet place of reading with an intervention of subtle imaginative power, writes Jonathan Jones
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Guardian Professional,
18 Sep 2014:
School librarians are depressingly underused, argues Sally Dring. Many teachers would be amazed at how much support they can give them and their students
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12 Sep 2014: Letters: It is the love of story and the development of language that is needed in the early stages
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12 Sep 2014: Study of American ‘millenials’ finds 88% of the under-30s read at least one book a year, compared to 79% of their elders
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Guardian Professional,
11 Sep 2014:
Ann Cleeves is one of several authors embarking on a challenge to bring literary events to Several authors are embarking on a challenge to bring literary events to some of the wildest and most beautiful places in Britain
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Guardian Professional, 7 Sep 2014: The Guardian’s Lucy Ward meets an award-winning school librarian who increased library visits with a bit of imagination
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5 Sep 2014:
Novelist says it is 'delicious' to be first contributor to the Future Library, which will compile 100 texts for publication in 2114
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1 Sep 2014:
From robot building to cooking lessons, public libraries are creatively staving off the threat of closure
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