Wider fears over historic collection (From Kidderminster Shuttle)
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Wider fears over historic collection
12:10pm Thursday 26th April 2012 in Letters
AFTER the article in last week’s Shuttle, and the many valid letters about the possible loss of the gallery and meeting rooms in Kidderminster Library, please remember first and foremost, this is a library. Time is running out, and maybe we should look at it from the wider point of view regarding book stock too.
The proposed plans show a considerable loss of space on the first floor to accommodate new meeting rooms, thus reducing actual book space further.
Besides general non- fiction stock, this floor also houses reference and local history material. This collection was started in the 1880s and maintained by the Borough Council until reorganisation to the county council in 1974, only surpassed in the county by the History Centre/Record Office collections.
It houses a large local book stock, plus over 12,000 photographs, ephemera, microfilm and maps dating back to the 1800s, so much of which is of considerable value and just irreplaceable, I feel concern over its future entirety.
Come on all you local historians and researchers, there are many more questions to be answered from this point of view, before it is too late.
NAME SUPPLIED Stourport
Comments(7)
walkerno5
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4:48pm Thu 26 Apr 12
Marcus Hart is up for re-election this time around, if you or anyone you know lives in Sutton Park encourage them to get out and vote (provided they're not a tory)
Stephen Brown
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9:56pm Thu 26 Apr 12
The volume of opposition from local people to this ill thought out plan from the Tory council is now so loud that I hope even those stubbornly deaf Tories can actually hear it.
neilhar
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7:56pm Fri 27 Apr 12
Problem is Mr Jupiter, Cllr Campion is the neo-stalinist dictator from County Hall. It's his bag all the way on this. Two jobs, One conflict of interest. It should be made illegal.
FranOb
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6:33pm Sat 28 Apr 12
Mind you it is a bit crazy, the \\county has this really valuable grand piano in the Library whilst, not 100yds away there is the world famous William Hill organ at Kidder Town Hall.
Everytime an orchestra needs a grand piano at the Town Hall they have to pay hundreds of pounds to hire one in and get it tuned.
If Cllr Campion MUST relocate the piano at the Library why not house it in the acoustically excellent Music Room at Kidder Town Hall?
Or doesnt the County want to share a suprb instrument with the District?
Mr Jupiter
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6:40pm Sat 28 Apr 12
But he mustn't... that's what the Big Society says anyway...the piano is fine where it is, besides which... it is a bit premature to be dividing up the spoils, Cllr Campion's battle is not won yet, far from it actually.
DOEPUBLIC
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8:51pm Sun 29 Apr 12
Clearly it needs treasuring by key politicians as much as its users do.
Mr Jupiter says...
12:54pm Thu 26 Apr 12
It seems especially ironic to me that Cllr Campion, the county council lead on localism and "bottom-up" democracy, is trying to defend these neo-stalinist diktats from County Hall that ride roughshod over public opinion and local democracy.
When will Cllr Campion finally concede that these proposed changes to our gallery are widely unpopular and should be scrapped?