Council hopes to end staff shortage at county libraries

Lancashire's libraries should be able to return to their normal opening hours once new staff recruited to plug gaps in the workforce take up their posts.

- by Post Reporter

Ingol Library is one of the facilities which has been hit by staff shortages

Lancashire County Council says it has now completed a six-month long restructure of its library network, during which several branches have been forced to close as a result of staff shortages.

A meeting of the full council heard the problem had been particularly acute in parts of Preston, where Savick Library was closed in September for more than 40 per cent of the time it should have been open.