Our Library and all the others in the county were at risk of closure due to council cuts and communities were asked to take them over. I was part of the Library Management Committee that took over the running of the one in our village. It is now a bright, lively and welcoming place and membership and issue figures are going up on a regular basis.
We have Family History classes, Rhyme Time, Saturday Stories, book sales, art and craft exhibitions and sales, children's and adult's competitions, a Lego club, meccano work shop, visits from scouts, brownies, playgroups and the village primary school. We have a coffee machine, newspaper, tables and chairs, talks and exhibitions and an independent book loan system.
Libraries are no longer quiet places!