My non-working day is a Friday, so the proposal to close the library on Fridays will make it much more difficult for me to get there to borrow and return books.
I find it really hard to go to the library due to working on the days it is open. Now it will only be open every 2nd Saturday. Increasing opening hours in other branches is not helpful. If you don't drive or limited mobility you need your local branch open in your town. I want to go to my own library, not take a drive to another branch. Very limiting to library users.
As previously stated, the reduction in hours would have a negative impact on my quality of life and my interaction with the community in West Kilbride. I welcome my regular visits to the Library as an integral part of my daily life. Any reduction in hours would significantly impact on me.
As we are retired we can visit the library on any day of the week. However, limiting the days will mean having fewer options. The proposed alternate Saturday/Wednesday opening will simply confuse as keeping track of which it is in any one week will be almost impossible.
I don't drive and usually call in to the library when I've walked to WK for other purposes. The proposed closure times will overlap with times I would be in WK so would need to make the journey (all uphill) specifically to get to the library on other days
Yes these reduced hours are incredibly disappointing. We should be actively encouraging people ( especially young people) to read and use the libary as it's so beneficial. The library is a magical wonderful safe space and these reduced hours will limit access and discourage people from " popping in". The half day Saturday is already limited so why reduce it to every other week. It feels like the council see the library as an easy target and this will be the first of a thousand cuts and reductions. The next argument will be that no one is using the library. Well yes as you're making it so difficult to access it! Why should people have to travel to borrow books when we have a purpose built facility in the village? Encourage more people to come! Encourage literacy and protect these community assets instead of reducing access and availability.
I see it as a death by a thousand cuts. This is a fantastic facility in the centre of our small village. My questions is really more why NAC cannot make this work in some fashion. Perhaps we have other buildings that require more maintenance or is it really that maintaining a library in a building excludes all else? For example, why can we not have a volunteer run tourism office (there is a tourism group), a Boyd Orr Nutrition Centre with specialist books, or move the Museum out of the craped space it is in now (Council paid) into this facility. It just seems that someone is not thinking properly about this in the Council? I could be wrong, and frequently am :)
My non-working day is a Friday, so the proposal to close the library on Fridays will make it much more difficult for me to get there to borrow and return books.
I find it really hard to go to the library due to working on the days it is open. Now it will only be open every 2nd Saturday. Increasing opening hours in other branches is not helpful. If you don't drive or limited mobility you need your local branch open in your town. I want to go to my own library, not take a drive to another branch. Very limiting to library users.
Keeping it at the currant times give me more option what day i can come into the library if I'm off work.
As previously stated, the reduction in hours would have a negative impact on my quality of life and my interaction with the community in West Kilbride. I welcome my regular visits to the Library as an integral part of my daily life. Any reduction in hours would significantly impact on me.
As we are retired we can visit the library on any day of the week. However, limiting the days will mean having fewer options. The proposed alternate Saturday/Wednesday opening will simply confuse as keeping track of which it is in any one week will be almost impossible.
I don't drive and usually call in to the library when I've walked to WK for other purposes. The proposed closure times will overlap with times I would be in WK so would need to make the journey (all uphill) specifically to get to the library on other days
Yes these reduced hours are incredibly disappointing. We should be actively encouraging people ( especially young people) to read and use the libary as it's so beneficial. The library is a magical wonderful safe space and these reduced hours will limit access and discourage people from " popping in". The half day Saturday is already limited so why reduce it to every other week. It feels like the council see the library as an easy target and this will be the first of a thousand cuts and reductions. The next argument will be that no one is using the library. Well yes as you're making it so difficult to access it! Why should people have to travel to borrow books when we have a purpose built facility in the village? Encourage more people to come! Encourage literacy and protect these community assets instead of reducing access and availability.
Yes by reducing choice of days when I can visit the library
I see it as a death by a thousand cuts. This is a fantastic facility in the centre of our small village. My questions is really more why NAC cannot make this work in some fashion. Perhaps we have other buildings that require more maintenance or is it really that maintaining a library in a building excludes all else? For example, why can we not have a volunteer run tourism office (there is a tourism group), a Boyd Orr Nutrition Centre with specialist books, or move the Museum out of the craped space it is in now (Council paid) into this facility. It just seems that someone is not thinking properly about this in the Council? I could be wrong, and frequently am :)