Shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey has lambasted the government's record on libraries and citing the Conservatives' new slogan: "We can't go on like this."
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If elected, Tories would introduce a voluntary Charter for Libraries and Reading for local authorities to sign up to, to commit themselves to providing a "first-class library service", as well as establishing a development agency for libraries through the MLA, with a four-year programme to inspire local authorities to invest in their library service.
The Advisory Council on Libraries would be abolished, Vaizey said, and a national library card would also be introduced.
Meanwhile the shadow culture minister also promised that a Tory government would act quickly to bring copyright law up-to-date if it wins the next election, telling publishers: "Your businesses must be protected by effective and up-to-date intellectual property laws". He said the government had "failed to act" while people and companies - "most obviously Google" - have continued "to innovate, or transgress, depending on your point of view".
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