Save Somerset's Libraries Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-somersets-libraries.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:43 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition David Gamon [Signature #885] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21606440?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 Aug 2017 03:58:26 UTC 21606440 john clarke [Signature #884] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19209631?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2015 01:21:34 UTC 19209631 Susan Lee [Signature #883] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19209200?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:25:15 UTC 19209200 Eleanor Field [Signature #882] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19208281?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:07:21 UTC 19208281 Michael Chapman [Signature #881] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14562173?utm_medium=rss Please do not be so foolish.

]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:19:53 UTC 14562173 Ceridwen Jenkins [Signature #880] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13634877?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:54:09 UTC 13634877 Emma Pruen [Signature #879] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12359882?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:11:34 UTC 12359882 Anonymous [Signature #878] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12320136?utm_medium=rss Closing libraries will have several damaging effects in the long run. In a shor term it may seem to be good for someone but later on it can result in negatve consequences. It is also not the best way to improve the literacy rate.

]]> Mon, 5 Mar 2012 04:19:53 UTC 12320136 Kelly Emery [Signature #877] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10429652?utm_medium=rss These library cuts are a disgrace and a shambles. Whats wrong with our libraries.
Sort it out!

]]> Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:34 UTC 10429652 Anonymous [Signature #876] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10003090?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:55:27 UTC 10003090 Carol Davies [Signature #875] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9735557?utm_medium=rss Libraries are an essential part of our community.

]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:26:47 UTC 9735557 Anonymous [Signature #874] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9680633?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:22:50 UTC 9680633 Yvonne Whiteman [Signature #873] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9648244?utm_medium=rss I went from a North London primary school via a reasonably good grammar school to one of the best girls' public schools in the country, thanks to a Middlesex Award, and thence to Oxford. My socially mobile wheels were oiled by library books all the way. Isn't that what this government longs for?

]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:00:41 UTC 9648244 Anne Gradwell [Signature #872] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9611531?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:35:49 UTC 9611531 Anonymous [Signature #871] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9610000?utm_medium=rss The Somerset libraries are very much needed for all people of all ages. I for one rely on my local library for computer use especially and would truly miss it as a means to search for jobs and keep in touch with the goings on in the area.

]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:16:33 UTC 9610000 John Milner [Signature #870] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9597467?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:35:51 UTC 9597467 Mike Rawlinson [Signature #869] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9594193?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:25:55 UTC 9594193 Egan Brooks [Signature #868] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9588417?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Feb 2011 02:38:14 UTC 9588417 Ann Brooks [Signature #867] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9588005?utm_medium=rss I have grown up using libraries and believe they are one of the greatest public amenities that span all classes and ages. Personally I read two to three books a week across several categories, it would be a tremendous personal loss to me if they close. I see so many people using them; small childen, schoolchildren on computors, local information points, events etc. Surely in times of austerity they are needed more than ever. It is shortsighted to cut this budget, they should incease it!

]]> Wed, 9 Feb 2011 02:09:47 UTC 9588005 Sue Willis [Signature #866] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9587779?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Feb 2011 01:53:11 UTC 9587779 Doudney and Sally Richard [Signature #865] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9579266?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Feb 2011 02:43:09 UTC 9579266 Linda McGown [Signature #864] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9568909?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:23:53 UTC 9568909 Jenny Speller [Signature #863] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9565115?utm_medium=rss Our libraries provide inspiration, education, information. They are the most important community resource in any village, town or city and we should be proud of them.

]]> Tue, 8 Feb 2011 04:07:42 UTC 9565115 Jack Owen [Signature #862] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9558269?utm_medium=rss The big society is all very well but you need trained and qualified staff to run something like a library. Ideologically motivated cuts inflicted by tory millionaires mean the end to some of the most valued and important facets of our society.

]]> Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:26:23 UTC 9558269 Judy Howden [Signature #861] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9549565?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Feb 2011 06:29:26 UTC 9549565 Wendy Foreman [Signature #860] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9538958?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Feb 2011 05:23:57 UTC 9538958 Derek Hudson [Signature #859] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9530203?utm_medium=rss I highly value our library services.

]]> Sun, 6 Feb 2011 03:50:31 UTC 9530203 Rosemary Jill Smith [Signature #858] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9525326?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 01:49:25 UTC 9525326 Quentin Isaac [Signature #857] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9524429?utm_medium=rss Once lost we will never regain our libraries. This is a resource which will be denied to future generations and have lasting detrimental effects. Think again.

]]> Sat, 5 Feb 2011 11:50:41 UTC 9524429 Shaune &Robert Shearer [Signature #856] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9523007?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:27:23 UTC 9523007 Anne Levy [Signature #855] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9522462?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:34:33 UTC 9522462 Natasha Burns - Tully [Signature #854] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9522414?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:26:30 UTC 9522414 Daniel Baker [Signature #853] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9522344?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:17:04 UTC 9522344 James Clark [Signature #852] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9522001?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:40:02 UTC 9522001 Sylvia Baker [Signature #851] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9521255?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 06:27:43 UTC 9521255 Anonymous [Signature #850] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9521196?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 06:21:12 UTC 9521196 Stuart Kemp [Signature #849] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9520999?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 05:58:23 UTC 9520999 Mike Mason [Signature #848] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9520146?utm_medium=rss Closing any Library is a crime against education. children, and leisure, we must not let this happen, we have had the use of librarys as long as I can remember and I am 72 years old .

]]> Sat, 5 Feb 2011 04:23:59 UTC 9520146 David Gatward [Signature #847] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9519103?utm_medium=rss So, children who use libraries are twice as more likely to become readers as those who don't, and yet here we are looking at library closer. Go figure.

]]> Sat, 5 Feb 2011 01:47:52 UTC 9519103 P Gray [Signature #846] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9515307?utm_medium=rss Keeping a library fully open and flourishing in Shepton Mallet is essential for the district centre, shopping and local population - used for the BBC turnbacktime shopping history tv series, Shepton's survival includes having LIBRARY facilities. Any library closures in Somerset are to be deplored. They are vital cultural and social hubs for their local communities. KEEP THEM OPEN.

]]> Fri, 4 Feb 2011 03:06:04 UTC 9515307 Tim Lomas [Signature #845] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9512628?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:36:50 UTC 9512628 Melanie McGilloway [Signature #844] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9507653?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Feb 2011 04:53:53 UTC 9507653 rob gordon [Signature #843] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9502368?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:53:51 UTC 9502368 Molly Povey [Signature #842] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9500285?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:00:13 UTC 9500285 Suzanne Duncan [Signature #841] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9493131?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:55:58 UTC 9493131 Lyn Milner [Signature #840] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9492847?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:30:41 UTC 9492847 Sarah Howard [Signature #839] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9483384?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:22:10 UTC 9483384 Anonymous [Signature #838] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9480197?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:14:08 UTC 9480197 Anonymous [Signature #837] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9480190?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:13:18 UTC 9480190 Anonymous [Signature #836] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9480172?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:12:00 UTC 9480172 Karen Chilvers [Signature #835] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9477865?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 04:50:11 UTC 9477865 kathryn bryant [Signature #834] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9454193?utm_medium=rss The library is an important resource to so many different groups of people within the local community, please don't close it. There has to be an alternative - it just requires creative thinking, and a community approach.

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:04:13 UTC 9454193 Anonymous [Signature #833] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9453262?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:23:40 UTC 9453262 Dan Sparks [Signature #832] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9452622?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:24:53 UTC 9452622 Robert Carne [Signature #831] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9451215?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:43:32 UTC 9451215 Graeme Everton [Signature #830] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9448484?utm_medium=rss Loosing libraries is not going to help young peoples literacy rate.
They also provide a central place for pre-school children to engage in reading and other activities.

(Also much cheaper to hire DvDs from as well)

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:12:54 UTC 9448484 Sally Tuffin [Signature #829] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9438642?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:33:05 UTC 9438642 Anne Hunt [Signature #828] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9435344?utm_medium=rss Please add my name to those protesting against these closures. I use my local rural library regularly and it will increase my carbon footprint travelling to a town one, increasing traffic and pressure on parking. Borrowing books is the ultimate in recycling, if I buy them it means the loss of more trees. Greater priorities have to be considered than just short term remedies. Spread cuts more evenly and reduce town library opening hours and keep rural libraries open with reduced hours.

]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:43:58 UTC 9435344 Catherine MOORE [Signature #827] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9429064?utm_medium=rss Libraries are a vital part of what is called "quality of life" along with CABs and leisure centers.

There are people prepared to help voluntarily to keep these services going.

]]> Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:15:10 UTC 9429064 Anonymous [Signature #826] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9427816?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:54:50 UTC 9427816 Jane Britnell [Signature #825] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9424925?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:05:35 UTC 9424925 Bill Ewens [Signature #824] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9424879?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:00:33 UTC 9424879 Anonymous [Signature #823] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9424260?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:38:54 UTC 9424260 Judith Campbell [Signature #822] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9423370?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:45:26 UTC 9423370 Merv Woods [Signature #821] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9423281?utm_medium=rss Closing our libraries during a self-inflicted time of austerity is the criminal act of a morally, culturally, and intellectually bankrupt leadership; the kind of "leaders" who sell our forests, destroys our airforce and navy during a so-called "War on Terror", pumps up purchase tax to "help" the economy, and display an eyewatering lack of foresight. The one saving that can be made will be the cost of the ink required to print the redundant word "Great" before "Britain" in future correspondence.

]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:34:18 UTC 9423281 philip maggs [Signature #820] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9417772?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:27:07 UTC 9417772 Julian Hight [Signature #819] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9413071?utm_medium=rss Short sighted, mean, and bound to be a major contributory factor towards a decline in youth reading. Once closed, I doubt whether they will ever open again. This signals the death knell of public libraries - an institution that reflects the measure of a civilization.

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:03:26 UTC 9413071 marilyn hills [Signature #818] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9406381?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:32:10 UTC 9406381 WAMARGARET & BRIAN WALLER [Signature #817] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9404690?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:18:11 UTC 9404690 Jenny Forrest [Signature #816] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9401188?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:04:01 UTC 9401188 Adam Williams [Signature #815] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9391560?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:52:59 UTC 9391560 Sarah cooke [Signature #814] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9389413?utm_medium=rss Our library in Nether Stowey is essential for the development of my children. As it is a rural area we would not be able to travel to a city library if this one closed down and therefore my childs access to reading and books would be taken away from us

]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:26:30 UTC 9389413 clive pearce [Signature #813] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9389364?utm_medium=rss GET RID OF SOME OF COUNCIL HIGHY PAD STAFF OR REDUCE TOP EARNERS? PAY BY 25% TO HELP FUND THESE CUTS

]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:23:08 UTC 9389364 clair Ellis [Signature #812] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9387725?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:39:48 UTC 9387725 Florence Kent [Signature #811] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9387032?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:57:22 UTC 9387032 Anthony Maundrell [Signature #810] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9382500?utm_medium=rss Libraries are an important part of our inforstructure and as such should not be allowed to close. If the councils wish to save money perhaps the best way would be to cut out some of the higher archy on the councils or reduce the exorbitant salaries they are payed.

]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:01:23 UTC 9382500 Louise ADAMS [Signature #809] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9381519?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:27:51 UTC 9381519 Mary Shurmer [Signature #808] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9380816?utm_medium=rss Libraries are vital to local communities. Those most disadvantaged by closures will be those without transport, the less well off, the elderly, the most vulnerable. Closing libraries goes against every current attempt to improve levels of literacy. The county takes council taxes from everyone and should provide equally to everyone. Present plans affect rural areas most, seeming to ignore the 1964 Public Libraries Act which enshrined in law the importance of giving equal access to all.

]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:07:19 UTC 9380816 Amon Cohen [Signature #807] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9380117?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:33:14 UTC 9380117 Alistair Todd [Signature #806] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9379618?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:23:40 UTC 9379618 CAROLE RANSOME [Signature #805] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9378974?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:26:16 UTC 9378974 Helen Morrall [Signature #804] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9378310?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:30:50 UTC 9378310 Arthur Cummins [Signature #803] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9378226?utm_medium=rss Resources for self-improvement benefit our "Big Society" (presumably meaning a national community in which we all contribute according to our abilities) Please negate Cameron's contradiction in boosting the idea of a Big Society while his government is doing everything to alienate & disadvantage the majority. Libraries are value for OUR money.

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:13:53 UTC 9378226 Annie Gardiner [Signature #802] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9377293?utm_medium=rss Complete Insanity! Have you watched Idiocracy? Look it up in the dvd section of the library.

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:42:14 UTC 9377293 Dominic Bennett [Signature #801] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9376380?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:21:22 UTC 9376380 Helen Worledge [Signature #800] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9376378?utm_medium=rss I object to the loss of 60% of Somerset Library Service.

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:20:58 UTC 9376378 anne bernaus [Signature #799] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9375802?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:03:23 UTC 9375802 Anonymous [Signature #798] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9374865?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:05:37 UTC 9374865 John Doe [Signature #797] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9374458?utm_medium=rss Libraries form a vital part of the framework of the community. Once closed we may never see their return. I have used the service for as long as I can remember and hope to be able to continue to do so.

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:40:54 UTC 9374458 nell leyshon [Signature #796] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9374419?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:32:06 UTC 9374419 jane brooke [Signature #795] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9374070?utm_medium=rss This idea is madness and seriously effects the publics access to knowledge and pleasure. the council only recently completed a rebuilding programme for a lot of the libraries in the county. cannot the spaces be multifunctional? drawing, painting yoga computer classes on closed days, literacy, language classes at night? combine school and college libraries with public libraries there are enough hours outside school ones? the council operates too many single purpose buildings

]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:13:01 UTC 9374070 John Dagnall [Signature #794] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9372842?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:22:16 UTC 9372842 eileen werner laurie [Signature #793] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9371701?utm_medium=rss Please do not reduce our precious local libraries. They offer isolated people a base to go to & find out about local activities. For those who do not have computers they offer this facility, Many people (eg those with some mental disorder)would find going to an internet cafe difficult. Libraries encourage community well -being.

]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:58:53 UTC 9371701 Liz Clay [Signature #792] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9370592?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:31:56 UTC 9370592 Karen Masters [Signature #791] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9366329?utm_medium=rss In particular, I empathise with people who use the mobile libraries. With these gone, I imagine an important lifeline will be lost to the most vulnerable of people.

]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:51:23 UTC 9366329 Anonymous [Signature #790] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9365270?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:45:44 UTC 9365270 Anonymous [Signature #789] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9364703?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:29:34 UTC 9364703 francis dolley [Signature #788] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9364513?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:04:20 UTC 9364513 kate pawsey [Signature #787] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9363969?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:52:59 UTC 9363969 Flora Alwen [Signature #786] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9363111?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:14:22 UTC 9363111