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• Meeting some baser needs

  20-11-2022 20:18 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  EditorialI wasn’t sure what to write in this week’s editorial – more on Warm Banks (or whatever we call them) perhaps or on the recent austerity-laden budget. But then I read something just below publishing about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It strikes me that libraries can meet all of these needs: self-actualisation (e.g. writing that novel, 3D printer), esteem (e.g. literacy, even owning a library card), social (e.g. knit and natter) and safety (neutral welcoming space)
  
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• LGBT+ awards make a welcome return in Edinburgh

  20-11-2022 19:46
  For the first time since the start of the COVID pandemic, the weekend’s UNISON LGBT+ conference in Edinburgh saw the return of the group’s recruitment and organising awards, with vice president Amerit Rait making the presentations.
  Members have been promoting the work that the union does for LGBT+ equality in the workplace, together with its wider work and the importance of being in a trade union.
  This year’s caucus winner was the trans caucus (pictured above with vice presiden
  
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• ‘We need to continue the fight … let’s join the winter of solidarity’

  20-11-2022 15:50
  “We need to continue the fight … we can’t let our hard-won rights” be stripped away. That was the central message from UNISON president Andrea Egan today, when she addressed the union’s LGBT+ conference in Edinburgh.
  Saying that she had been privileged to attend the union’s trans ally training, she told delegates that the subject was “close to my own heart”, particularly since her nephew started to transition three years ago.
  “Education is k
  
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