Here are some questions that have come to my attention. There one's for us all to find answers too before we go too far down the road of being partners:
- what level of qualified librarian support will Matson & Tuffley & Hester's Way have? There is now, I believe, only one librarian per geographical area (Gloucester, Forest, Stroud, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Cotswolds). The Gloucester librarian for example, will now presumably have two decent sized libraries added to their workload (unless additional posts are created).
- What is the nature of the work expected of those librarians with regards to the different tiers of the service (main, etc)
- similarly in those areas where community run or partnership libraries are being put in place, how are those single librarians expected to add this to their workloads. I believe there is a figure for the number of hours of librarian time allocated to partnership libraries.Will this disproportionately affect some librarians' workloads and impact on their ability properly to cover their other responsibilities?
- In Matson, Hesters Way and Tuffley, presumably, new staff teams will need to be appointed? How is this to be done, bearing in mind that other staff were made redundant?
- Who is responsible for outreach / promotional work and what level of outreach will be possible (for each type of library)?
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