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Social inclusion

jonathanmw — 2009-12-14T07:02:57Z

one of the most excluding and unwelcoming habits of public libraries is their method of arranging the stock by a system ugg sales that only they understand: the so-called "dewey-decimal" system

of course this puts people off- especially new, younger readers who are uk ugg used to a world in which shop signage is intended to be helpful, not to show how clever the owners are

at last a conference of librarians has recognised this. let's hope it doesn' bailey button t take 850 years for them to do something about it

mrs dumpling in barsetshire will recognise that i made the same suggestion myself that has been made at today's conference to her in bailey button my report "who's in charge?" several years ago - and she took no notice at all, insisting with all her friends that i had no understanding of the idea of social inclusion, public service, ugg boots china local government, libraries, cheap uggs etc. oh really mrs dumpling!

Saving Hove Carnegie Library

jonathanmw — 2009-12-14T06:57:17Z

christopher hawtree writes about how the people of hove saved their library

it is bogglingly difficult to understand that politicians can ever have contemplated closing down hove's carnegie library.

this has dominated the life of the current, hung council. the fact that it is a hung council gave a chance to save the library which would not have been possible in ugg boots on sale the previous new labour council (whose manifesto did not announce its plan to close down the library...).

it has been a long and sometimes wearisome business to save the library, although with a great many jokes, which are essential to any campaign. the essential part of any campaign is not only to know how the council system works - which questiosn to ask at which meetings of whom - but also persistence. this, ugg boot paradoxically enough, is a way of marshalling energies and resources, for it is far better to have a series of events and ideas than to fire off everything at once.

one thing led to another in hove, the first wave of protests - hundreds of messages to opposition party leaders - led to the council forming a "working party" to look into the library matter. there were suspicions that this was a sop, and so the pressure had to be kept up. this led to the formation of the friends of hove library, to which thousands of people signed up, and then, in the middle of a cold winter, when politicians expect things to go quiet, the friends produced the first save hove library posters (a4, landscape). black on bright yellow is very effective. the womens classic short ugg first of these went up under cover of darkness in the windows of all the houses surrounding the one where lived the councillor who wanted to close down the library. as we surmised, she came out the next (stormy) morning and had a fit, issuing an insulting press release about them womens uggs classic short . this made it clear that the poster was a success, and so we were encouraged to get up 5000 of them. politicians were amazed, palpably envious. stategically positioned - in windows along bus routes - as well as in houses everywhere and in independent shops (chain-store staff speak forlornly of the fact that "company policy" means that they cannot play a part in the community). when the planning committee went in a mini-bus on a site visit to look at something else entirely, they were flabbergasted to find almost every house in the vicinity had a poster up.

these posters made it clear how strongly people felt tall chocolate ugg boots about it all. i gather that the local mp was alarmed.

when we got to 5000 posters, it all had a momentum of its own (the tipping point)- everybody wanted one, and it could easily have got to 20,000 by ugg australia then, but, at that point, the council announced that the library would stay put, and, indeed, it has now been repaired and redecorated, although that took a further two years with much debate about the way in which the place would be organised - whether the reference library would be ditched, biography lost, and so on. uk ugg

i think all this shows what can be done - along with innumerable letters to the local paper by many people, much badinage. the paper gave it a great deal of coverage, and the campaign also got a piece in the times, tls (twice), an appearance across the whole south of england on the politics show, and private eye's "library news" appears eager for information about councils' sidelining of libraries and books. the whole place here is talking about it all, purple ugg the pavements echoing to the many comments, some of them unprintable even on the web. as a result, hove appears to be a continual foment about everything, its atmosphere one of distrust and sucpicion.

this repair of the library has been done - in house - for a relatively modest sum. it is amazing to me that politicians do not realize the amount of goodwill that can be won by spending on libraries: books. staff, opening hours. book readers might not be the most obviously vocal of people - until something like this happens - but they do talk among themselves, and word cheap ugg boots spreads.

when all this erupted, i had been looking forward to a quiet life, and it has been galling to have to give such time and energy to this - but what else could one do? it has been so profoundly dispirting that precious time had to be given to a matter that should never have been necessary that i have decided - heartbreakingly - not to have children. i simply cannot see a future in which people ugg hammond slippers have to battle and battle for what should simply be a part of civilised life. looking back, to the evening when seeing the news in the local paper of the plan to close down the library, i did not then realize that the course of my life would be changed.

No more secrets

jonathanmw — 2009-12-14T06:07:13Z

"one of the underyling causes of the collapse of the public library service ugg classic short sand is that it has lost contact with the people it is there to serve". those aren't my words but they are taken from a focus kids pink boots sale group discussion among ugg classic short younger people in oxfordshire about 4 years ago.

i agree. secrecy pervades the service from the presentation of performance data in most councils to the discussions which go on in the highest levels of the profession and in government. it is impossible to find out what is being planned and plotted and for the people who pay for the service to contribute. at the moment there is a really important review of efficiency and i and others were astonished to find that it is effectively going on behind closed doors and only involves a small number of people who have both vested interests and limited experience. that has to stop.

the efficiency review came about chesters ugg on sale because, having ugg classic cardy looked at some councils in detail i identified possible savings of 300m pa from the way the service operates. that was a long list of inefficient or wasteful practices that i showed in a presentation in the summer of 2002 to tessa blackstone who was then a minister of state. the bookseller also published that list. since that day no one has been able to refute or deny any of the points that i made. therefore "doing nothing" has already cost us all a further twelve hundred million pounds. (wow) of course no one would take my word and so the ugg5919 best way to avoid taking action was to employ a succession of consultants and then throw their reports, secretly, into the bin. that is what is happening now. bailey button uggs

if "the powers that be" won't be open about their discussions then one has to rely on the press. in the past few years discount ugg boots both the trade and the national press have played a key role in uncovering the secret behaviour of those who operate the library service.

this week we can see a very fine example of that. the times discovered that publishers charge a higher price for a book if it is supplied to a library than if it is supplied to a book shop. there cardy ugg boots uk 's no reason, other than that they can get away with it. women's ugg the technical language makes it all very complicated, but that's what it boils down to. here is katherine rushton in the bookseller and here is ralph baxter in publishing news

the original article was by dalya alberge in the times and i calculated that simply by publishing this, the times added 30m to the purchasing power of the national public library book fund. that is good journalism. here is dalya's piece in the times

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Tiger Woods' sponsors taking a timeout

jonathanmw — 2009-12-11T07:09:05Z

as tiger woods uses silence to deal with the uproar over his alleged infidelities, his sponsors apparently are following suit, quietly not running his ads until the worst is over.

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"if a sponsor cuts him loose, that makes it look like the relationship was tenuous to begin with," burton said wednesday. "i womens ugg classic short don't think accenture, nike or gillette want to do that. sometimes what they'll do is take an athlete and put him into a probation period, a quiet window."

and for woods the ad window has been very quiet. according to data compiled by the nielsen ratings company, no woods ads have appeared on television since nov. 29, two days after he crashed his cadillac suv buy ugg boots online outside his home in florida.

according to forbes, woods has endorsement deals worth $110 million with accenture, nike, pepsico inc.'s gatorade (which is discontinuing its tiger focus drink), tag heuer watches, electronic women's ugg arts inc., upper deck, netjets, tlc vision corp. and gillette. although attempts to reach nike, accenture and pepsico wednesday were unsuccessful, no spokesman from any of the companies connected to woods has indicated the deals are in trouble.

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Facebook users speak out against new privacy settings

jonathanmw — 2009-12-11T06:46:36Z

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(12-09) 14:38 pst -- many facebook users expressed anger at the site wednesday for changing privacy settings, which they say caused personal information to be inadvertently exposed.

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facebook employee ruchi sanghvi explained the changes in an official facebook blog post titled "new tools to control your experience," which received about 500 comments from users, many of them critical of privacy changes.

"great ? job. now everyone who isn't even my friend can see my profile," one user wrote. "this is ridiculous. i'm not an idiot, i've searched thru all the settings for over cheap mayfaire uggs an hour and now friends of mine who i did not want seeing stuff can now see men's lacoste arixia shoes stuff. i have tried blocking them and customizing them and now all my [information] is exposed."

facebook shuts down beacon program, donates $9.5 million to settle lawsuit

many other facebook users apparently approve of the privacy changes, since more than 2,400 clicked the "like" button on sanghvi's blog post.

but criticism came from numerous quarters. kevin bankston, a senior staff attorney with the electronic frontier foundation, wrote that some of facebook's new settings "have created new and serious privacy problems for users of the popular social chocolate short ugg network service."

blogger marshall kirkpatrick, vice president of content development at readwriteweb, called the privacy settings "near orwellian."

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The Best New Bluetooth Headsets

jonathanmw — 2009-12-11T06:42:12Z

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