So often absolutely ordinary in appearance, a good library should offer escape routes down the most extraordinary avenues, pathways into different worlds from the one you’ve left outside. Ridding our villages, towns and cities of libraries, which are essential in shaping a nation’s consciousness, seems like a direct attack on the soul of the country.
‘If you tolerate this …’: Nicky Wire on library closures | Books | The Guardian
Nice piece by the Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire, who of course famously wrote the line, ‘Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free.’
