MADAM – Many opinions are expressed on public libraries.
There was an article in The Times on Saturday, November 5, about diversity of use and the loss of the ‘shush’ image.
I was a preschool poppet when I first heard the word library from my maternal grandmother, who related the feelings of awe and pleasure at the sight of so many books when she was a child.
Throughout my life, a public library has been a much appreciated and visited source of reading and learning and information, but these days it is also a second home.
The silence of widowhood is not stimulating, and to be able to go to a library and sit and read among people of like minds counteracts aloneness and offers me comfort and normality; i.e. an adoptive family atmosphere.
Molly Roberts
Stroud
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