On 31 July I post­ed that the Library at St Bride’s was to close, but noth­ing had been pub­lished on the Foun­da­tion’s web­site.

Around the same time Print­Week report­ed that the Library was being ​‘restruc­tured’.  The Asso­ci­a­tion of Euro­pean Muse­ums said –

Giv­en the cli­mate of uncer­tain­ty which has sur­round­ed the future devel­op­ment of the St Bride Library in recent years, these announce­ments can only add to the anx­i­ety felt by the many schol­ars, typog­ra­phers and design­ers world­wide for whom St Bride’s is one of the fore­most inter­na­tion­al resources in the field.

On 06 August the Foun­da­tion made a state­ment to clar­i­fy the posi­tion.  I’m rather selec­tive here in my quote, but I find this remark­able –

Many of you will have heard wild sto­ries about the clo­sure of St Bride Library and the Work­shop. I am also aware that some peo­ple are under the impres­sion that the whole Foun­da­tion is clos­ing with­out fur­ther ado and that every­thing will be sold or giv­en away and that will be the end of the sto­ry.

This is sim­ply not true.

Dis­ap­point­ing­ly, the wildest sto­ry — that the library and work­shops will cease — is true.