Boughey, Alan; Cooper, Mike - In: Aslib Proceedings 62 (2010) 2, pp. 175-201
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its … relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach – The published literature from government … and professional bodies is reviewed, alongside published statistics on library use. Findings – Since 2003 public libraries …