Let's hear it for our libraries!
By Bill Naylor - 10/12/2008
In the last two years 'cut backs' mean a hundred library buildings no longer function as libraries - despite Britain being almost at the bottom of the European table in reading skills, and with more and more children leaving school unable to read properly. Libraries are also repeatedly being told they are 'antiquated' and to 'smarten up their act', while at the same time being deprived of funds. Having belonged to libraries in a various towns and cities for nearly fifty years, I have seen them change - but I have never seen any sign of them becoming unpopular.
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