"Libraries are our future, to close them would be a terrible, terrible mistake; it would be stealing from the future to pay for today, which is what got us into the mess we're in now."

- Neil Gaiman


Andrew Motion, Britain's Poet Laureate, whose work I have always admired, has also recently spoken out in support of keeping public libraries open.

Increased funding for libraries, and library opening hours, is absolutely central to just about every belief that I've ever held. :)