Central library closure

[Lex Luthor]

Well the link in the last post by laz says this:

 

 

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cross-posted with you... well yeah, again. Difficult to trust these people isn't it.

 

If you substitute difficult with 'foolish', even closer the mark.

 

After their antics last week, I've lost complete faith in them, and I'm one of the 'tree haters' (that's what someone on my street called me, who I've never even met before because I had very good reasons for wanting a tree removed!) who has been asking for trees to go!

[LeMaquis]

What is the percentage of the average citizens of Sheffield that feel the need to use a Hotel.

 

Or the percentage of Londoners, New Yorkers, Parisians, Berliners, Singaporeans, etc? There wouldn't be any hotels anywhere with your thinking?

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If you substitute difficult with 'foolish', even closer the mark.

 

Yes, probably!

[dejitmx]

Really? What Is this town turning to? Giving up education for profit making. I wonder what our kids would face in next 10 years

[WestTinsley]

Birmingham Library is an impressive new build effort too, although it did cost £200m

wow £200million!

 

Yep. Leeds and Harrogate for starters!

Nice is harrogate but i meant in sheffield tfh ..both towns library's are nice too. Nothing wrong with progression, but tradition and history needn't be bulldozed to make way for it. the 1960s sheffield building schemes are a great example of that..

 

Liverpool's cost £55 million:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325333/55million-refurbished-Liverpool-Central-Library-open-years.html

Maybe if more was spent on the current library building it would be cheaper than building a shortterm glass or chinese steel structure ..

Edited November 23, 2016 by WestTinsley

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Really? What Is this town turning to? Giving up education for profit making. I wonder what our kids would face in next 10 years

 

This is the thing, unless they are lying, then there will be somewhere more modern (education wise).

 

Really? What Is this town turning to? Giving up education for profit making. I wonder what our kids would face in next 10 years

 

Fewer stairs for a start

 

Won't something think of the children having to use stairs?

[alchresearch]

Really? What Is this town turning to? Giving up education for profit making. I wonder what our kids would face in next 10 years

 

I'd like to know how many kids have stepped into a library in the past few years.

[S1 1DJ]

I'd like to know how many kids have stepped into a library in the past few years.

 

Sadly, none of my nephew's or niece's have. As a kid I used to use both my local and Central Library. Services need to be bought up to date and rationalised. Unfortunately, money is key to this and reduced Central Government funding and other Council services take priority.

 

The bottom line is that the building needs to be protected regardless of the Library staying there or not. A future Central Library needs to be fit for future generations and their needs in a a ever more digital world, so I don't envisage a Central Library in its current shape or form moving forward.

 

Perhaps, a more collaborative approach with both Universities would be of benefit?

[LeMaquis]

Sadly, none of my nephew's or niece's have. As a kid I used to use both my local and Central Library.

 

Especially the misplaced apostrophe section.

[the_bloke]

I'd like to know why the library suddenly needs £30 million worth of renovation and updating work and isn't fit for purpose. Surely the major issues such as poor disabled access and a stone age heating system were also a problem ten years ago, when SCC was getting boat loads of cash from the Government? Why wasn't it addressed then? (Like the roads..)