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Article: Brindley a beacon at BL.(British Library, Lynne Brindley)(Brief article)
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- Information World Review
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- June 5, 2006
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Byline: Bobby Pickering
Brindley a beacon at BL
Last month's full-throttle attack on the current management of the British Library by the historian Tristram Hunt is a piece of elitist nonsense. In the columns of the supposedly left-leaning Guardian, Hunt attacked ceo Lynne Brindley's stewardship as "steadily dismantling a world-class cultural institution under the wholly disingenuous banner of access and inclusion".
What is his beef? That Brindley is overseeing a revolution that allows "the undergraduate masses" through the doors of the once mighty fortress. Now, "proper researchers" have to put up with mobile phones ringing, chatter and -- ...