Petition Handed In To Wokingham Council

Last night, Thursday 22nd, we handed in our 2,374 strong petition opposing the privatisation of Wokingham's libraries. 

Because the petition is over 1,500 signatures, according to the Council's own constitution, it should trigger a debate on the privatisation of our libraries at the next Council meeting (November 17th).

We'd like to thank everyone who signed and helped collect signatures. 

The next stage of our campaign will be more difficult. We now need to convince councillors to support us in the debate and oppose privatisation. You can help by telling them how you feel. Write to them at http://www.writetothem.com/ or find them on Wokingham Council's website at http://wokingham.gov.uk/council/councillors/councillors-database/ .

We're now on Facebook

We thought it was time we branched out on to Facebook .

Our page, Save Our Libraries In Wokingham, can be accessed on  

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Our-Libraries-In-Wokingham/241135085913936 

( Once we have 25 Likes for the page we'll be able to ask for a better link ).

It's amazing how many people are still unaware of the Council's plans to to privatise our library service, please help us let them know by showing your support on Facebook.

Once again, the page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Our-Libraries-In-Wokingham/241135085913936 .

Thanks for your support, and if you haven't already please sign either our on-line or paper petition.

Upcoming Petition Signing Events

We have two upcoming petition signing events:

Thursday, 18th August, at Lower Earley Library between 1.00pm and 2.30pm .

and

Saturday, 20th August, at Wokingham Library and Town Centre between 10.00am and 12.00pm(noon).

Please come along and help out, or sign the petition if you haven't already, or if you can't make it, then why not sign the on-line petition? Just click the "Sign Our Petition" logo to the left and it'll take you there.

Over 800 Signatures and Counting

Thank you to everyone who signed our petition during our signing event outside Finchamptead library yesterday.

We have now collected over 800 signatures - on-line and paper based petitions combined - and fully expect to reach our 1500 signature target soon. 

If you haven't already signed our petition please sign it now ( the link to the online petition is on the top left of this page ). We need 1500 signatures to force a full council debate on the privatisation of our libraries.

If you'd like to collect signatures on our behalf please get in touch with us at saveourlibrariesinwokingham@gmail.com and we can send you a petition collection form.

We have a new web address...

www.savewokinghamslibraries.org

Spread the word, tell your friends, colleagues, family and acquaintances, if they want to stop the privatisation of Wokingham's libraries then get online and sign our petition at: http://www.savewokinghamslibraries.org

And, to celebrate our new web address, we're produced another "Save Our Libraries" poster with the web address given on it. You can view and print in from here. Why not print it out and put it somewhere it will be seen?

New Events Calendar

We've added this online calendar to the website so you can keep up to date with all our petition signing events and maybe come along to sign the petition or help out.

Click here for a bigger, easier to use calendar. 

If you want to access it quickly again in the future, just click on the "Events Calendar" from the menu bar at the top of the website.

Why Not Print A Poster To Support Our Campaign?

Phil Bradley has created a wonderful set of "Save Our Library" posters for the national campaigns against local councils looking to close libraries. 

The posters are based on old war posters and are simply fantastic. Phil's Flickr website, where you can see and download the posters can be access here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/sets/72157625923493122/

For a bit of fun, I've ameneded one for the Wokingham campaign (left), you can access it and download it here:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6_EWgzZLivOODAzNmYxZjctZTg2YS00YTI5LThmMmItOTQ1ODM1OTNlOTA0&hl=en_US

This is amended and published under the Creative Commons Licence here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Enjoy,

Anthony.