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Tim Coates' report on the management of public libraries in Great Britain attracted wide attention when it was first published in 2004 and has been used in many countries as a training manual and the focus for discussion

Freckle reports are analyses of the data and performance of public libraries in the US, the UK and AustraliaThis edition contains the reports from both 2020 and 2021The reports describe the decline in use of public libraries and propose actions that can be used to remedy that situation. The 2020 report highlighted a number of specific areas for work, and the 2021 report develops those and adds some new observation made during the time of the pandemic lockdowns Crosby Kemper, director IMLS: "These reports raise the larger challenge of the question of what libraries are about. Are we still about books and reading or are we drifting off into community services of varying degrees of importance to the community. There is a challenge to the focus of library leadership and the strategies for the future.They also raise the question of the pre-pandemic decline in visitor-ship and circulation. There is the shift within circulation to eBooks and audio books and streaming services. Do any of our statistics capture the questions pertinent to the digital divide? Is the decline in computer sessions related to increasing community connectivity and what does that connectivity mean regarding digital literacy?And perhaps the most important question raised in the two reports is 'does the decline in children's circulation have an impact on the educational divide and basic literacy?' Part of the Freckle challenge is whether or not we are even collecting and highlighting the most important strategic information. What information do we need? Would detailed budget information, population diversity, SES information better inform decision making? How do we measure impact beyond basic outputs? Is there a utilitarian answer? Is there an aspirational answer? Are they compatible?With decline in basic outputs are libraries in decline or changing the way they impact communities?"

Freckle Report 2021 follows the Freckle Report 2020. It is an analysis of the performance and funding of public libraries in the United States, in Australia and in the United Kingdom It assesses the problems facing the service, the decline in use; the apparent denial of that problem; how library services can sensibly be measured; the pursuit of digital material and the increasingly diverse audiences. The reports contain original research of the most recently available figures about how the public make use of public libraries and how the libraries have responded to the demand for them in recent yearsIn particular it reports how successful the library service in the United States has been in providing digital books, as audio and eBooks, during the Covid 19 Pandemic

"(In the field of public libraries) The virtue of private reading is rarely proclaimed. Most reading is not, in itself, a community activity but the contribution to communities from people who read is immense. That point is not often made, yet it is, and always has been, the single greatest value of public libraries. They help people to find what they enjoy reading. That is the way they benefit society." -- from pg. 5

The story of the British invasion of Tibet in 1903 and eventual signing of a peace treaty in 1904 is told through excerpts from official correspondence between the Commission for Tibet Frontier Matters and India and from diaries kept by Colonel Francis Younghusband.

"Dealing with Josef Stalin" describes the diplomatic negotiations between the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France between March and September 1939. This collection of papers known as a Blue Book has not been previously published.