National Library Of Wales Closes on Saturdays

On 18 November 2009 the National Library of Wales announced that due to a demand from the Welsh Assembly Government that it save £250,000, it was decided that from April 1st 2009, the Library in Aberystwyth would be closed on Saturdays. The one day in the week when a non retired family historian would have been able to visit the library. The closure will save the library £80,000 per annum!

I would urge you to express your concern about this closure which deprives the working person from access to the National Archives of Wales by writing to the President of the Board of the NLW and the First Minister Rhodri Morgan, ( Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan AM,

4th Floor, Transport House, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9SD

e-mail: rhodri.morgan@wales.gov.uk) and / or by signing the online petition which calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to ensure that sufficient funds are provided to the National Library of Wales, to enable the NLW to reverse its decision to close on Saturdays.

Please sign the on-line petition >CLICK HERE

Nick Davey, Vice Chair, Glamorgan Family History Society