The Jubilee Library in Brighton is a great building with great staff and its newly-extended opening hours are a step in the right direction.
But this fine community asset is doomed if it doesn't have enough books. I read with dismay that a "public library standard" now insists books can only be kept for 6.7 years. What nonsense! This rule treats the stock of a library like vegetables in a supermarket.
A library is a store of knowledge preserved for the future as well as for current use. Its most useful and permanent assets are books and none of them should be thrown away until they have fallen apart.
Our marvellous new library is full of light and space. The council should fill it with books and put its daft rule book in the bin.
-David Gray, Brighton
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