The Cycling to Suffrage exhibit may have closed, but there is still time to get involved in the campaign to Save The Women’s Library. Join us this Saturday, Sept 22nd, in a rally to show how much this irreplaceable institution means to us!
In March 2012, London Met launched a campaign to secure a new home, supporter or custodian for The Women’s Library. Hopes were high that one of the many institutions considering taking over the collection would put in a bid to keep the collection, staff, and building together. When the Aug 22 deadline arrived, only one bid was submitted, a proposal from LSE that will see the collection move to the 4th floor of their main library in central London.
On Sept 13, a selection committee formed by London Met assembled behind closed doors on to consider the LSE’s proposal. Meanwhile, outside the Holloway Road building, a group of Save the Women’s Library supporters held a demonstration that would have made their suffragette sisters proud, complete with banners, chanting, and soapbox testimonials about what the library meant to them. London Met’s Board of Governors will meet Sept 27 to ratify the recommendation put forward by the selection comittee, details of which have not been made public.
This weekend, the Save the Women’s Library campaign will again call on the spirit of their suffragist and suffragette predecessors as they rally outside The Women’s Library.
The Save The Women’s Library campaign, who are hosting this weekend’s rally, seeks to:
1) Keep the library in its current purpose built building
2) Ensure the collection remains intact and accessible to all
3) Retain the library’s expert staff
Over 12,000 people have already signed the on-line petition to Save The Women’s Library.
<–Click the icon to download the latest Save TWL press release, which covers Saturday’s Rally.
Rally Date: Sept 22nd, 2012
Time: 4-5pm
Location: The Women’s Library, Old Castle Street, Aldgate, London, E1 7NT
Closest tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street
See the Save the Women’s Library blog for further information, campaign news and contact details: http://savethewomenslibrary.blogspot.co.uk
You can print a flyer for Saturday’s rally here: http://savethewomenslibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/demonstrate-for-womens-library-22nd.html
If you haven’t signed it yet, please do so here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/925/128/986/save-the-womens-library-at-london-metropolitan-university/
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