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April 9, 2010
I also live in Loughton....
From a reader in Essex.....
"I also live in Loughton and the only thing that is any good is the internet access. Other than that, the books are ancient.
Want to know where the library books are. Go to Hay on Wye and look in the bookshops there or buy a book on ebay or Abebooks and see how many are ex-library books from libraries around the country. The fact that they can sell books online shows there is a demand for them - so why are the libraries selling them off?
True researchers or children doing their homework struggle now to find anything of use on the library shelves. This isn't a plot to close the libraries down and turn them into affordable housing is it?
As for that previous comment, I thought the Tories ran Essex - maybe that is why everything is being sold off?"
The number of books for lending in Essex public libraries has fallen by at least 500,000 in the past ten years/
Posted by Perkins at April 9, 2010 11:33 PM