Looking first at Arbury Court (where I'm a friend of the Library) at the moment the library is open for 32.5 hours a week. The proposal is that this be reduced to 27 hours a week. This reduction is around 17%, substantially more than overall reduction of 7% being proposed for the entire service.
Unfortunately the news for both Histon (a 10% reduction) and the Central Library (a 9% reduction) are not substantially better.
It seems after attempting to rig the original survey identifying the libraries under threat of closure against City Libraries the Conservative administration is now attempting to rig the opening hours cuts so that they disproportionally affect city libraries - and this is surely what these cuts (based on the population of the catchment area - rather than actual usage) will do.
Once again the Conservative administration is ensuring that the harshest cuts are inflicted on Cambridge City.
The surveys can be completed online by following the following links;
And for those of you for whom the Milton Road Library is more appropriate a link to this survey is available here.
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