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Author ups pressure on BL for user group.
Byline: mark chillingworth
Author ups pressure on BL for user group
Mark Chillingworth
The British Library has given the idea of an independent users' forum the cold shoulder. Author and Freedom of Information Act (FoI) campaigner Heather Brooke approached the BL to place an advertisement for a users' forum in the BL's newsletter, but was denied the opportunity.
Brooke approached BL service improvement manager, Jenny Brace, to place an ad in the Readers Bulletin asking library users to sign up for a users' group. In an email exchange seen by IWR, Brace said: "We could neither sanction the establishment of the independent user forum that you envisage, nor would we be prepared to recognise such an 'un-official body'."
"It harks back to the anti-union style of large corporations," Brooke said. She believes users of the BL deserve an independent forum as there has ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Author ups pressure on BL for user group.