£5.5m grant, Library of the Year shortlist, PhD in libraries and the normal mix of news

EditorialThe £5.5m announced by the Government to aid libraries is welcome but, basically, chickenfeed compared to the funding she announced for the Arts at the same time and, more seriously, the funding needed for the public library sector. Just one example, Lambeth this week is contemplating cutting it’s libraries by a further £1m. To reinstate just that one service to the level it was, even without this further cut, it would need around twice as much as that national grant.M