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Libraries Week - Tuesday. What's it like to be a librarian in the Outer Hebrides?
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Last year, spoke with Kathleen Milne, a librarian responsible for the running of four remote libraries, each on a Hebridean island. Speaking from Stornoway on the Island of Lewis, she was angry when she told me.
‘Here, like everywhere else in the UK, the last decade has been nothing but fire-fighting. Some libraries have been cut and cut and cut. We’ve never really been able to do what we want to do and we can do. Libraries are a basic human right and I long for the time we don’t have to fight and we can concentrate on making a difference. ‘Libraries are part of what it is to be human. It is one of our greatest human achievements..’
I started by asking Kathleen how she made the move from South Africa to the outer Hebrides...
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