What a relief to hear that City of York Council is not expecting to close any branch libraries as part of its leisure review. Even in this technological age, a library is a place of use and wonder.

However, the suggestion that some branch libraries could move to more popular locations is surely sound. A threatened library in another part of the country has already been moved to a local pub, so anything is possible.

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.