Scotland’s Fife council to shut almost a third of its libraries,with further cuts being made across the UKFife’s decision to shut 16 of its libraries has been attacked by tall-profile Scottish authors including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, as well as by a group of Scottish National Party MPs.
As a unusual report on the current state of the UKs libraries reveals that more than 100 branches closed last year, or a reduction of 14% in the total number of libraries since 2010,bestselling crime novelist McDermid called the situation in Fife “disgraceful”. The decision, announced earlier this week, and will see the region’s libraries reduced from 51 branches to 35.
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Source: theguardian.com