The Barbarians are at the gates!

The onslaught has begun! from London to Leeds councils are taking the easy way out and closing libraries and sacking librarians, the savings made are miniscule but the damage to communities and society as a whole is immense.
Yes libraries are intrinsically about books but many offer a lot more, free ICT, information and reference services, children's activities, activities for older people, reading groups, outreach services for refugees/asylum seekers etc etc and of course a safe and warm place for people to meet and greet. They play an important role in the provision of Lifelong Learning and increasingly assist people who are job hunting.

But because of the Governments ideological decision to hit public services instead of the City and the banks we are in grave danger of losing this valuable national resource.
We are beginning to hear prominent voices against the cuts and there are dedicated groups of campaigners opposing them but my own profession has been pathetically ineffectual, unfortunately librarians are not very militant by nature.