07-09-2025 12:58 via publiclibrariesnews.com

After 15 years, it’s time to do something else

EditorialI started Public Libraries News back in 2010, when the word “austerity” was being used for the first time and eBooks were just coming in. My daughters were 3 and 6 years old. Yesterday I took the youngest of them to their new university for the first time and I recently attended the graduation of my eldest. Unfortunately, though, austerity is still with us and does not appear to have changed.Writing PLN, as it appears to have become known as, was at first a professional deve
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