Councillor Ishbel Brown and the Oval Lib Dem Action Team joined Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library this morning to campaign against threatened cuts to libraries in Lambeth, collecting signatures for a petition and speaking to local residents who were furious about the risk to their local services.
The Tate South Lambeth Library plays a vital role in the local community, and a cut to services would hit local residents hard. Whilst collecting signatures for the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library's petition, we met many local people who used the library for a whole range of activities, including after-school clubs, to look for jobs, or to help build their English skills.
This is not the first time that the library has been under threat - Labour have previously tried to close the library in the period 1998 - 2002, which was only stopped by a strong local campaign, supported by the Lib Dems. The Lib Dem council of 2002 - 2006 extended the library's opening hours, and in recent years Lib Dem Oval ward councillors supported the creation of an outside reading area and highlighted the problems caused by poor electricity supply and heating.
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