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<DIV>All this fuss about closing public libraries! What are public
libraries for? I’m not up to date with current librarianship thinking, but
they seem pretty useless to me. When I first read Woolf’s essay on Parson
Woodforde in CR2, as a teenager in the 1960s, I went to Wimbledon Library and
got out one of his vols. (Sorry, but I couldn’t get anywhere with
it.) Look on the London Borough of Merton’s current online catalogue, and
there’s not a single vol. anywhere in the borough; 27 entries for the whole of
London. I remember when there was a whole stack of music scores in the
Wim. Library. Bet they’re not there now. They might as well close
them all as far as I’m concerned.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rant over.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>