The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books

‘Libraries are not simply somewhere to borrow books.’

2024-09-08  594  中等

“I owe my whole life to books and libraries,” Zadie Smith said of her local library in Kensal Rise, London, after campaigning in vain against council plans to close it. The thriller writer Lee Child, creator of Jack Reacher, has said that the library in Birmingham where he spent hours as a boy did nothing less than save his life. But a young Child today might not be so lucky: Birmingham could lose 10 of its 35 libraries.

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