It looks like this, if you try CILIP’s Guidelines on public library provision in England for portfolio holders in local Councils.  The guidelines are mercifully short - two and a half pages by my reckoning - but are slightly disappointing for me by not mentioning ‘professional librarians’ once. In particular see the section staffing and activities, but I do notice that staff can be supported by ’specialists’. 

That said I’m broadly supportive of the document, it puts ‘Investment is crucial’ at the fore afterall and reminds councils of their statutory duty.  I’d be interested to see how candidates in the forthcoming CILIP elections turn these guidelines into action, and stop Local Government movers and shakers merely dismissing it out of hand.  (See this, and this, from the Bookseller).

Of interest to me as a non-public librarian are the 10 questions posed on the final page of the guidelines, which are universally applicable to any library service if you replace ‘local community’, ‘local people’, or ‘local council’, with ‘user community’.