{"id":18227,"date":"2013-11-07T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=18227"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:13:04","slug":"ely-councillor-defends-library-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/07\/ely-councillor-defends-library-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ely councillor defends library closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A councillor has defended the closure of Ely library despite a public petition against it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Russell Goodway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.gov.uk\/content.asp?nav=2872,4274,4280&amp;id=1124\">Russell Goodway <\/a>said\u00a0that it\u00a0is\u00a0important to emphasise that the library is simply transferring to another location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time that the library in Ely has been moved from one location to another. It is important that we focus on facilities and services and not on buildings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council plan to close the current library building on Grand Avenue later this year and move the facilities to the Jasmine Enterprise Centre on Cowbridge Road.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 416px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Jasmine-Centre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18228\" alt=\"The proposed new home to Ely library facilities\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Jasmine-Centre-416x312.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18228\" alt=\"The proposed new home to Ely library facilities\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Jasmine-Centre-416x312.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The proposed new home to Ely library facilities<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Councillor <a title=\"Susan Goddard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.gov.uk\/content.asp?nav=2872,4274,4282&amp;id=1160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Susan Goddard <\/a>comments: \u201cThe closing of the library will be a good thing as it will be open more hours of the day. I can only see positives for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A councillor has defended the closure of Ely library despite a public petition against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":18244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[269,3157,3158],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-cardiff-council","tag-ely-library","tag-jasmine-centre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ely councillor defends library closure - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/07\/ely-councillor-defends-library-closure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ely councillor defends library closure - 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