Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 20 September 2016.
Carwyn Jones
Labour
2:01,
20 September 2016
These are issues that are still being considered by the Minister. Of course, it happens digitally already, in terms of digital lending, where many, many local authorities participate in the one central resource, but the work is still being looked at to see whether an all-Wales library card to borrow physically would be workable. I suppose from the local authority’s point of view, they would be concerned, if they were a temporary resident, about whether that person could be traced if the book wasn’t going to come back. These aren’t insurmountable issues, but certainly these are issues that I know are still being examined in terms of seeing whether they’re still practical.
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