Commonplaces

Abstract

THE BIAS towards the shires in the rate‐support grant for the next fiscal year has brought benefit, albeit of a negative kind, to one county librarian to whom I was chatting recently, who has to face a cut in his budgets of ‘only about £60,000’, which is some 3% of his total. We agreed ruefully that in real terms public libraries have had to live with annually reducing expenditure for at least a decade, and that 3% next year was at least manageable, if no great stimulus to morale.

Citation

Bingley, C., Fleming, E. and Bunch, A. (1981), "Commonplaces", New Library World, Vol. 82 No. 3, pp. 50-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038524