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Brindley a beacon at BL.(British Library, Lynne Brindley)(Brief article)
Byline: Bobby Pickering
Brindley a beacon at BL
Last month's full-throttle attack on the current management of the British Library by the historian Tristram Hunt is a piece of elitist nonsense. In the columns of the supposedly left-leaning Guardian, Hunt attacked ceo Lynne Brindley's stewardship as "steadily dismantling a world-class cultural institution under the wholly disingenuous banner of access and inclusion".
What is his beef? That Brindley is overseeing a revolution that allows "the undergraduate masses" through the doors of the once mighty fortress. Now, "proper researchers" have to put up with mobile phones ringing, chatter and -- horror of horrors -- not being able to find seats because the place has become so popular.
Hunt implies, but offers no proof, that there is internal dissent. "The management has publicly refused to concede there is a problem. But their internal documents say otherwise," he declares. Yet he offers no evidence.
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