petitions

You may have seen the recent announcements in the Press concerning severe cuts at the new Library of Birmingham (link is external). (See list of links below)

About 100 of the Library’s 188 staff will go as opening hours are cut from 73 to 40 hours per week and other services for the public are stopped.

The Director of the Library has resigned, and if these proposed changes go ahead, business, learning, music and archive services will cease - there will no longer be a Music Library in Birmingham, run by specialist staff with relevant subject knowledge...

Professor Lorenzo Bianconi (University of Bologna) has created a petition that calls upon Italian leaders to prevent cuts to subsidies for world-famous Italian musicological research projects and libraries. Your signature is appreciated. Please distribute widely.