Vol 24 No 2, Summer 2009

Editor's Letter

Time to meet the neighbours
NEIL MACINNES and LINSEY HEALD hit the Manchester streets to meet the neighbours

On crime and on budget
MADELEINE BENTLEY discusses managing the first Reading Festival of Crime Writing

Power to the (young) people
STELLA THEBRIDGE presents findings from a project with looked-after children in Warwickshire

KATE MILLIN, JEN BEARDSMORE and JAYNE WILKINS on a new service model in Dudley

TATI DE JERSEY previews The Library Show 2009

PLR Registrar, JIM PARKER, reflects on the first 30 years of the Public Lending Right

JULIA BALL outlines how they held wrestling matches at Bath Central Library

ROBIN GARLAND and PETER WILLETT discuss a survey of lapsed users in North East Lincolnshire Libraries

AYUB KHAN considers new trends and forces in library design and planning

ROGER MCMASTER describes building improvements in Suffolk

The SCL's exciting new advocacy work, by TONY DURCAN and ELIZABETH ELFORD

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