Community Asset Transfer and Public Libraries

Newcastle Business School has quite a good new report explaining the complications behind promises to volunteer libraries and either community asset transfer or other forms of grace and favour funding.  Among other things it is worth pointing out that such things can easily mean that the volunteer library continues as a drain on the public library service.  When discussing this sort of thing with the various community groups during the Libraries Transformation Project, I found that they were quite disdainful of even being asked the questions.