Do Libraries Have A Place In Modern Britain?

[expire-ed]

I read this earlier, and wondered what people thought:

http://www.themillions.com/2017/06/austerity-and-the-british-library.html

With the closure of hundreds of libraries over the last few years, do we think we're seeing the end of these community knowledge hubs?

Here's a bit on the closing of libraries last year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35707956

Do you still use the library? In what capacity?

I confess to not having been in a library for a long time, as it's often not really my crowd (the books I like I new, and literary - and most of the non-fiction I want can be bought cheap or found online for free).

And yet, I am sad at the idea of them closing.

Thoughts?

[mikey4444]

I loved all the Famous Five books as a boy, and the "Adventure" series as well. The early Blyton books, the "Five Find-Outers" were also favourites.

After Blyton, I moved on the Malcolm Savile "Lone Pine"
and "Swallows and Amazons"

My Mum used to like the Miss Marple and Poirot books and I tried them when I was about 13-14, and loved those as well !

A good book is a good friend.