BBC News: 2 June
Philip Pullman slams library closures at Hay Festival
“It seems an act of destructive folly, almost unparalleled, to allow the library service – which was so good in my lifetime – to fall into such decay so soon, so rapidly and so carelessly as if it didn’t matter.”

Herald Scotland: 2 June
Scottish Borders Council lambasted over cost-cutting “folly” of replacing school library staff with pupils

Wellington Weekly News: 2 June
Somerset | It’s a ‘good, busy library’ but future is uncertain

Libraries News Round-up: 12th March 2014

DAILY TELEGRAPH : 12th March Malorie Blackman: Why are libraries mandatory in prisons but not schools? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10691061/Malorie-Blackman-Why-are-libraries-mandatory-in-prisons-but-not-schools.html Skegness Standard : 11th March Wainfleet Library and museum cut fears However, from May…