{"id":69928,"date":"2025-08-14T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69928\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:59:16","slug":"library-books-dumped-on-croydon-pavement-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69928\/","title":{"rendered":"Library books dumped on Croydon pavement &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Perry said that while the building will not be a council-operated library, the books will still be available when it reopens at an Asian Resource Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croydon Council has faced criticism for the library&#8217;s closure, as well as three others, as part of its restructuring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March, some residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg117gdky1o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told BBC London <\/a>the library had been a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Perry said the new resource centre will have expanded opening hours compared to when it was a library, operating for two days a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the BBC in March: &#8220;Those that were the lowest usage essentially were the ones that were then shut.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Perry said that while the building will not be a council-operated library, the books will still be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-69928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}