A York Council committee will consider an update report, from the City’s recently independent Libraries service, when it meets on 22nd June.
It will hear a generally upbeat report from the managers of a service which became a “Community Benefit Society” on 1st May 2014
However there are some emerging issues.
Post its major renovation, the central Explore Library has struggled to achieve historic levels of book lending.
The report says,
“York reopened in January 2015 and looking at last quarter of 2014/15 we can see a small reduction in visits (1.4%) and book issues (8%). We are looking into the reasons for these”.
This is put down partly to an outbreak of anti social behaviour by young people.
This isn’t the first report of issues with personal behaviour which now extend across an apparently widening part of the City.
Generally branch libraries, like those in Acomb and Dringhouses, are performing well with a wide range of activities taking place.
Date: Wed 17 and Sat 20 June
‘It is of little comfort to Mrs Walker to receive a letter describing her son as ‘a credit to his mother,’ when it also reports him missing.’