London Library Campaign Group

We are a group of concerned Members of the Library. Many of us have been Members for years or decades, and we all love this space for its functionality and what it represents. It is our hope that the Library develops sympathetically and in a considered fashion.

We are not naysayers.

Many Members who have come to this Campaign Group can find some aspect of the proposals for the Library that, in abstract, they might support. Hence the survey the management point to when they claim the majority of Members support the proposals, in which questions were vaguely phrased and proposals not adequately outlined.

Some Members who have come to the campaign group would like to see plans entirely scuttled; some have questions about the delivery of the proposals; some are ‘for’ certain aspects and ‘against’ others. Wherever you fit on this spectrum, our campaign group would welcome your voice and insight.

We have been prepared to give management the ‘benefit of the doubt’ in respect to ‘Part 1’ of the Capital Connections plan, which includes:

• To create a new ‘Discovery Room’ for public meetings (meetings involving non-members) where the ground-floor catalogue hall used to be.
• A new kitchen is to be built in the basement, large enough to cater for both public and private events.
• The storage areas currently on the top floor will be moved to the basement, where, in addition to a kitchen, dedicated new areas will be set aside to store the Library’s extensive rare books and archive.

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   I attended the AGM in November so I could hear the arguments against the development plan, having picked up the…

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   I AGREE THAT A FEW MORE ARMCHAIRS IN THE READING ROOM WOULD BE DESIRABLE, BUT NOT IF THIS WOULD REDUCE…

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   I agree.we should build up the endowment fund and not engage in further building projects least of all a cafe,and…

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   Is creating a café and roof terrace a sensible way to raise money for the Library? The management’s justification for…

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   I’m a very new member, having made three visits so far, so I venture my opinions tentatively, but have spent…