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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Professor Bruce Royan, Trustee,
CILIP
(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
41 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, EH10 4BL, UK (44) 131 447 3151
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