What she said was so wonderfully ridiculous that it did the library
worls nothing but good!
Nicola Baker
Assistant Director; Culture
London Borough of Hackney
020 8356 2560
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From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Royan
Sent: 02 July 2009 08:34
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Subject: FW: [CILIP-Council] Beryl Bainbridge on the awfulness of
Libraries
What was Beryl Bainbridge on this morning?
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/default.stm)
"Libraries these days are so absolutely awful; no wonder nobody wants to
go
back"
"They've become like sort of happy clubs you can go to, I mean old
people
can go there to keep warm and read newspapers... and children... "
"they used to be kind of religious... you felt privileged... you had
huge
great shelves of wonderful old-looking books - now it's just paper and
broad
sunlight"
"reading has got to be much more awkward than that"
"sense of seriousness, a sense that this is really a place to go to, and
that the people who go there are really rather important..."
...or have I had an irony bypass?
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