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Opportunity for self motivated, self starter

The Carnegie Library Project Group is looking for a self-employed, self-starter to help it turn the page at the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill.  Can you help?

The Carnegie Project Group has some funding from Lambeth Council to help it to come up with some ideas for increasing community uses in the Carnegie Library building.  An architect has been appointed to develop some options for how the building could be used, while keeping a library at its heart.  There is some funding to put toward restoring and upgrading the building into something the community can use more.  Continue reading Opportunity for self motivated, self starter

Lambeth Libraries: a talk by Robert Drake Wed 12 Feb

Letter from The Herne Hill Society

Wed 12 February, 7:45pm
Robert Drake, Secretary of the Twentieth Century Society, gives an illustrated talk on the history and architecture of the Borough’s libraries including Herne Hill’s Grade II-listed gem, the Carnegie [that must be us! - ed]. About the Herne Hill Society meetings ->
 
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Lambeth UNISON’s Manifesto for Libraries

Creative Commons, credit to Phil BradleyLambeth Council are threatening to cut libraries. This will mean that Lambeth Libraries, which already have fewer staff and fewer books than the London average, could soon become even worse. Lambeth UNISON, which represents the library staff, has launched a Manifesto for Libraries.

You can help this campaign: