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<DIV>Do the museums regularly dump their collections so they'll only carry last year's artworks?</DIV>
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<DIV>I am appalled at the closure of English public libraries, and would protest if I lived there, but I take Stuart's point. When I was in the local library while staying in England a few years ago I was very disappointed to see it was the same (or worse) as my local library here in Australia--a good place to find any popular-fiction book first published last year, almost certainly useless if you want to read something more than three years old and/or not popular fiction. </DIV>
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<DIV>Public libraries in their previous sense and purpose have already, in effect, been closed.</DIV>
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<DIV>Caroline <BR><BR>>>> Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter@gmail.com> 24/07/2013 2:33 am >>><BR>I suppose we should dismantle the museums and cathedrals while we're at it. <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 23 July 2013 06:42, Stuart N. Clarke <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target=_blank>stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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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><SPAN class=HOEnZb><FONT color=#888888>
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