Protestors Check out all their library’s books!
Posted on Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at 6:14 am
Stony Stratford Library -photo credit Karen Parker
This is BRILLIANT!
People in a Buckinghamshire town have borrowed every single book from their local library to block plans to close it down.
Even here across the pond the New Yorker reports how ” more than a thousand Stony Stratford residents made their way to the red-brick building, scoured the shelves for their allotment of fifteen titles, swiped their library cards, and left the building completely bare of books.”
They’ve named their effort the “WOT NO BOOKS CAMPAIGN TO SAVE OUR LIBRARY”
The library calculated that books had been checked out at a rate of around 378 per hour.
“A local resident mentioned the idea, maybe as a bit of a joke, but we thought it was a great idea so we put it to FOSSL[The Friends of Stony Stratford Library],” siad Emily Malleson.
“I put it on Facebook and emailed everyone I could think of and it’s just gone absolutely mad.”
Photo Credit Karen Parker
And the best news of all? The Library’s got a year’s reprieve and other local libraries are learning from their example how to keep their libraries open.
Save, Saving, Saved! Photo Credit Karen Parker
