Library news

• Exam board staff will strike this week on GCSE results day

  23-08-2022 14:48
  
  Staff at exam board AQA will tomorrow (Wednesday) begin a further set of strikes coinciding with the days when schools and pupils receive GCSE grades, says UNISON.
  It marks the fourth round of action in a dispute over pay and fire-and-rehire threats to staff, says the union.
  Around 180 workers – including those in customer services ​who would normally take calls from schools, parents and pupils about the results – are walking out for five days up to and including
  
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• Putting the drag into story-times

  23-08-2022 13:26 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  
  EditorialIt’s clear something major has happened this Summer. There has been widespread and vocal protests, and counter-protests, outside libraries hosting drag queen story-times. This has received huge media attention and it’s too heated and immediate for me to write more on it. Just see the multitude of articles below, in a separate section below the national and international news sections.
  Changes by local authorityGloucestershire – Stonehouse library moves into town counci
  
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