Media

Print/Online

• Doubts over digital library service in cost-cutting town
  Yorkshire Post, 26th December 2011
• Why the Big Society plays havoc with Britain’s borrowers
  The Independent, 14th December 2011
• MPs to investigate library closures
  The Guardian, 24th November 2011
• Doncaster’s libraries will close as plans for rethink thrown out
  South Yorkshire Times, 23rd November 2011
• Library cuts: The battle of the bookshelves
  BBC News: Entertainment & Arts, 13th October 2011
• Campaigners want library plan shelved
  The Epworth Bells & Crowle Advertiser, 8th October 2011
• Campaigners want library plan shelved
  Doncaster Free Press, 6th October 2011
• Doncaster to hand 12 libraries to volunteers
  The Bookseller, 5th October 2011
• Doncaster council plans to transfer 12 libraries
  BBC News, 4th October 2011
• Doncaster libraries reading scheme ‘hypocritical’
  BBC News, 19th August 2011
• Library services will be halved despite £1.8m refurbishments
  Sutton Observer, 29th July 2011
• “Unlawful” library closures head for court
  Bookseller, 20th May 2011
• Warwickshire council offers community library funds
  BBC News, 8th April 2011
• “Big Society” Bookswap plan under fire
  Financial Times, 29th March 2011
• Government puts legal protection for libraries up for review
  Guardian, 17th March 2011
• Library buildings available for lease
  Eastlondonlines, 10th March 2011
• Cull of libraries brings cries of protest throughout region
  Yorkshire Post, 21st February 2011
• Outcry as a fifth of Yorkshire libraries face axe
  Yorkshire Post, 20th February 2011
• Cautious welcome for libraries reprieve
  The Star, 19th February 2011
• Libraries saved by peaceful protest
  Student Guardian, 11th February 2011
• Library cuts ‘would make Britain more illiterate’
  The Telegraph, 7th February 2011
• Thousands turn out for Save our Libraries day
  The Bookseller, 7th February 2011
• Britain – England rises to save reading; London library occupied by sleep-in campaigners
  Morning Star, 7th February 2011
• Overnight protest held at library
  The Independent, 6th February 2011
• Read-In Library Protest Becomes Sleep-In
  Press Association Mediapoint, 6th February 2011
• Protesters stage overnight sit-in at New Cross library
  BBC News Entertainment & Arts, 6th February 2011
• Are libraries finished? Five arguments for and against
  BBC News Magazine, 4th February 2011
• Go-ahead to close 14 of 26 libraries in Doncaster
  BBC News Sheffield & South Yorkshire 4th February, 2011
• Fears For Preston’s Libraries Amid Council Cuts
  Blog Preston, 28th January 2011
• Library closure threats spark campaigns across England
  BBC News England, 26th January 2011
• Campaigners pledge to fight plans to cut spending on libraries; Beeston/Chilwell
  Nottingham Evening Post, 26th January 2011
• Don’t be quiet please
  Red Pepper, January 2011
• Without libraries, we will lose a mark of our civilisation: 250 libraries are earmarked to be closed. Clearly the government ignores this huge loss to the community
  The Observer, 28th November, 2010
• Campaign group’s FOI findings on threatened Leeds libraries
  Guardian Unlimited, 25th November 2010

Radio

• Charles Dickens’ 200th Anniversary
  BBC Radio Leeds, 7th February 2012
• Doncaster Libraries to be Handed Over to Volunteers
  BBC Radio Sheffield, 5th October 2011
• Wakefield Library Closures (and the need for accessible library branches)
  BBC Radio Leeds, 12th September 2011
• Doncaster Library Closures
  BBC Radio Sheffield, 31st August 2011
• Cumbria Library Fines
  BBC Radio Cumbria, 23rd August 2011
• Doncaster Summer Reading Challenge
  BBC Radio Sheffield, 19th August 2011
• Buckinghamshire Volunteer Libraries
  BBC Three Counties Radio, 12th August 2011
• Somer Valley FM, 6th June 2011
• Big Society capital funds
  BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire, 8th April 2011
• Up All Night: Book Hour
  BBC Radio 5 Live, 4th April 2011 (5 Live blog with link to recording 8th April 2011)
• Doncaster libraries reprieve
  BBC Radio Sheffield, 18th February 2011
• Britain faces closing the book on libraries
  NPR (US), 10th February, 2011
• Doncaster libraries will close
  Hallam FM, 4th February, 2011
• Debate with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
  You & Yours, BBC Radio 4, 19th January 2011
• Local radio interviews about library closures
  BBC Local Radio Luton, Cambridge, Wiltshire, York, Hereford & Worcester, Sheffield, Surrey & Sussex, Leeds, Northampton, West Midlands and Cornwall, 19th January 2011

Television

• Doncaster Summer Reading Challenge
  BBC Look North, 19th August 2011
• Wakefield Library Cuts
  BBC Look North, 19th July 2011
• Save Our Libraries
  The Wright Stuff Extra (Channel 5), 19th July 2011 (25.30 mins)
• Warwickshire Library Cuts
  BBC Midlands Today, 14th June 2011
• Library Cuts Protests
  ITV National News, 5th February 2011
• Wheatley (Doncaster) Read-In
  BBC News, 21st August 2010