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Laddar... The Library Always Wins. (utgåvan 2018)av Outi Pickering (Författare)
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Meet the Healthscare Library team again - this time they're in real trouble The formidable Claire Twinsett takes the lead while Simon the library manager is away, and the hospital's Powers that Be decide that the library is the department which they can close down without anyone protesting. The valiant library team have their own quirky ways of fighting for their existence and even have time to carry out a bit of citizen science in between. But a lot of paper will flow out of the temperamental photocopier/printer (sorry, the multifunction device) before the library is safe again, and by that time we can sincerely wish the Chief Executive Officer a speedy recovery...This novel is an independent sequel to Two Point Five Cheers for the Library, with a closer look into some characters' home lives as well as their professional activities. Thanks to the short chapters, the book makes particularly suitable reading if you're a busy parent, a commuter, or recuperating from an illness - but you'll be reluctant to put it down Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Outi Pickering is a recently retired former librarian who has used her experience in a staff library at a NHS hospital in the UK, as fodder for a venture into writing. The Library Always Wins (2018) is her second effort, the first being Two Point Five Cheers for the Library. (2015) Both of them are published by an outfit called Olympia Publishers, whose website I consulted because of suspicions I had about the editing of this book. Yes, Olympia do what they call traditional publishing, but if they are unable to offer a traditional contract, they make an alternative offer [...] known as a ‘partnership contract’ and is based on a contribution, to be paid by the author, to cover initial production and printing of the work. Well, I hope Pickering didn't contribute much of her retirement savings, though the fact that this book made its way to prominent display at a suburban library in Melbourne on the other side of the world, indicates that the title is marketable, at least to libraries and the people who love them.
The story is a simple one, and familiar. As one who helped to man the barricades when a premier best forgotten wanted to close libraries all over Melbourne, I recognise the panic when closure seems imminent. The library staff at Cardigan Bay Healthscare Library are beset by the plans of bean-counters, so they rally as best they can, handicapped by their own follies and foibles. The tone of the book is established by the ludicrous names of the characters: Simon Pendrive is the manager and Vladimir Logoff is the IT librarian. Outsider Claire Twinset — otherwise known as The Choke (Chief Officer for Knowledge Etc) — is the replacement manager when Simon takes leave to join his amateur choir for three weeks. Her supervisor is Justin Drakonian. And so on.
A series of mildly amusing episodes take place, culminating in, as the title told us it would, the library's triumph. Having been told, repeatedly, about the intrinsic worth of the work this library does, it comes as a bit of an anti-climax to find that its reprieve is based on exactly that. The circumstances, however, seem highly unlikely to me. But what would I know about the professionalism of the NHS? Maybe they are a bunch of incompetents who need to read reference books during surgery.
But surely there's YouTube on an iPad for that? ( )