Kate L writes “The management committee of the Feminist Library in London is calling an emergency meeting on Saturday 24th February 2007 to decide on whether to close the library for good. This meeting is a last ditch attempt to rally feminists to support our library and, if we are not able to come up with a solution, to discuss finding another suitable home for the collection.
Kate L writes “The management committee of the Feminist Library in London is calling an emergency meeting on Saturday 24th February 2007 to decide on whether to close the library for good. This meeting is a last ditch attempt to rally feminists to support our library and, if we are not able to come up with a solution, to discuss finding another suitable home for the collection.Those of you who have not been in touch for a while might like to know that the collection now also includes 75 boxes of material that was the Women’s Health Library that we rescued from being thrown in a skip over the summer.
For a number of years the Feminist Library has existed in a state of
permanent emergency, with a dwindling number of volunteers to take part in
running the library, a precarious financial situation, uncertainty about its
location, and a lack of womanpower to pursue crucial funding applications.
The current group of volunteers is no longer able to sustain the situation,
and the library will be forced to close without an injection of new volunteers. Therefore the meeting will have a dual function: to decide on
whether or not the library will continue to stay open, and to gather
experience, advice and new volunteers to reinvigorate the management
committee, or help the committee find a suitable home for the collection if
the decision is taken to close.
The meeting will take place at 11am at the Feminist Library on Saturday 24th February. There will be the opportunity to look around the library and to
chat to us, followed by a more formal discussion.
Please distribute this invitation to attend as widely as possible. Feedback
from the many feminist groups and individuals who have an interest in the
library is very important to us, as well as the need to get extra help.
As a basis for discussion at the meeting, we are preparing a short document
on the library’s current plight and what our future options could be. If you
would like to receive a copy before the meeting, or have other questions, or
are considering volunteering, please contact us by email, [email protected]“
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