Guardians of UK's literary jewels at risk in V&A plan to cut key library staff

Two-thirds of librarians will lose their jobs in restructuring at London museum

They are guardians of some of the nation’s most valued treasures, including Dickens’s manuscripts, a Shakespeare First Folio and five Leonardo notebooks. But librarians at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum are feeling far from valued themselves, as two-thirds of them face losing their jobs.

Thirty librarians have been told that their numbers are to be reduced to just 10, as part of a major restructuring at the museum.

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