Britain’s national press hailed the establishment of yet another community library in Barnet in north London last month. They praised it as a victory for the local community, and for the squatters who ...

A campaign by the Occupy group and local residents have saved a library in Barnet. Friern Barnet library was scheduled to be closed but it was then taken over by Occupy squatters. Today, they handed ...

“Barnet claims to know what people want. But if you go into some of the libraries in Barnet, I would have to say that they probably don’t know what people want.” Nick Mahony talks to the Chair of ...

Walk into Friern Barnet Library in North London and you would think you were standing in a model public library. More than 1,000 fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on ...

Whose library is it anyway? After being closed by the Conservative council and then run by Occupy London, Friern Barnet Library is now in the hands of residents. But does this development represent a ...

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The Guardian speaks to the squatters and community volunteers campaigning to keep a local library open. guardian.co.uk It is a creative partnership like no other. Squatters have occupied Friern Barnet ...

A north London library where squatters opened a book-lending service has been handed to a group of residents to run. The squatters moved into Friern Barnet Library in September after Barnet Council ...

Squatters who set up a book-lending service in a library that was closed due to budget cuts can be evicted in six weeks, a judge has ruled. In September, members of Occupy London moved in to Friern ...

Walk into Friern Barnet Library in North London and you would think you were standing in a model public library. More than 1,000 fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on ...

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The council has agreed that the community group can take over the premises for the next two years A north London library where squatters opened a book-lending service has been handed to a group of ...