Fwd: Women's Library Under Threat - please support this e-petition

[Chris]

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Chris
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>Apologies for cross posting – actually not! This 
>issue is so important it has to be communicated through every possible channel.
>
>The following announcement is currently posted 
>on the Women’s Library home page:
>
>‘On Wednesday 14 March, London Metropolitan 
>University’s Board of Governors announced that 
>they will be seeking a new home, custodian or 
>sponsor of The Women’s Library’s collections. If 
>a new home is not found by the end of December 
>2012, the Library will move to opening hours of 
>one day per week for a period of three years, 
>with a further review at the end of that period. 
>We will keep you informed of further 
>developments, and we are in the process of contacting key stakeholders.’
>
>It should also be noted that the Trades' Union 
>Congress Library, also under custodial care of 
>LMU, is under similar threat. Unison writes: 
>'Social justice, the strides towards equality 
>and the campaigns fought by those unwilling to 
>accept injustice lie at the heart of these 
>collections and they have given our students a 
>real opportunity to engage with these movements 
>and personal histories. These special 
>collections truly emphasized the now seemingly 
>lost intention of London Met Uni’s original aims 
>to widen participation and to promote social 
>justice by offering our students these truly 
>unique resources. The dedicated staff at both 
>Libraries – who were not involved in these 
>decisions in any way, despite seeking input into 
>the reviews that lead to this decision – will 
>now look to the future. We still believe in the 
>value of the stories documented and want to 
>thank everyone who has supported us so far.'
>
>A petition to the Secretary of State for 
>Education to save the Women’s History Library 
>has been started, they need 1000 signatures: 
><http://www.thepetitionsite.com/925/128/986/save-the-womens-library-at-london-metropolitan-university/>http://www.thepetitionsite.com/925/128/986/save-the-womens-library-at-london-metropolitan-university/
>
>For more information on the Trades Union 
>Congress Library: 
><http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2012/03/special-collections/>http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2012/03/special-collections/
>For an exciting recent project see 
><http://www.workinglives.org/.../britain-at-work-voices-from-the-workplace.>www.workinglives.org/.../britain-at-work-voices-from-the-workplace..
>
>Dr. Margaretta Jolly
>CCE, Mantell Building Room 4b20
>University of Sussex
>Falmer, BN1 9RF
><mailto:m.jolly at sussex.ac.uk>m.jolly at sussex.ac.uk
>01273 873585
>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/16251
>Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
><http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/
>Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
><http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter
>
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