Pseud "Librarian" Mayor Councillor Woodroofe's event drives readers from Central Library
One of the really good things about the Central Library that I have grown to love is the ability to bring a drink and a snack into the cafe area of the Central Library in Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre where you can read and browse in peace undisturbed by modile phones and endless chatter. Until today.An event presided over by Mayor Councillor Woodruffe in the adjacent library Green Room resulted in people leaving the library. The librarians proved unable to do anything as the event organisers ignored the requests to keep the Green Room door closed and not to use their mobile phones in the library. I finally left the library as one mobile phone user who seemed to think that the library was a place to have long loud mobile calls outside of the Green Room event told me to "shut up" when asked to stop her loud disruptive call. I think I judged my time of xit well as a queue of people was processing through the library with double basses and amps to the Green Room.Based on today's experiencences the plight of Ealing's libraries becomes clear as one realises that Mayor Council Woodroofe is a professional librarian, though what kind of a librarian would disrupt a public library to this extent and allow the drastic downsizing of Ealing's libraries but a pseud.His bio reads: "In his professional career Councillor Woodroofe worked for much of his adult life in the BBC’s News Information Research Department. When he left, he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management at the then Thames Valley University, now the University of West London, and later worked there in its library. He is currently a librarian in north London and specialises in the reading development of offenders."
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