Archives for November 8th, 2010

THINK TANK WARNS SPENDING CUTS WILL HARM BIG SOCIETY

Headlines, PublicNet: 8 November, 2010

The new economics foundation has warned that the spending cuts detailed in the Comprehensive Spending Review will result in a poorer, more hard-pressed society, not a bigger one.

The report Cutting It: The Big Society and the new austerity, provides an analysis of the prospects for the Big Society in the context of the Spending Review. From the analysis it claims that the Government wants the Big Society to pick up the pieces left by its public spending cuts, but the scale and speed of the cuts will leave civil society with an impossible job to do and not nearly enough support.

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NEW AGREEMENT WITH PUBLISHERS GETS MORE ON LINE IN LIBRARIES

Headlines, PublicNet: 8 November, 2010

MLA has brokered an agreement between publishers and library services which allows extended use of free or low cost reference materials.

Ten new online resources have been licensed for English public libraries and local authority museums and archives to help build their collections and offer improved information to the public.

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SURVEY REVEALS VOLUNTEERING IS LESS POPULAR

Abstracts, PublicNet: 8 November, 2010

The latest National Statistics from the Citizenship Survey from Communities and Local Government shows that the number of people volunteering is in decline.

The number of people engaged in civic participation at least once a week has declined to 31 per cent. This is fewer than in any previous year.

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