The Long View

EditorialThese news updates tend to, by the nature of things, concentrate on the short term: a cut there, a new library here and a spotted possible trend perhaps thrown in. So perhaps it’s useful to take a step back and do a brief (if it’s long no-one will read it summary) of what’s happened to the public library sector since Public Libraries News started way back in 2010.The big obvious thing is that libraries are still very much here. The pessimistic observer back at the star