(caledonianmercury.com): There is much righteous and articulate protest at the moment about the fate of libraries, in the era of deficit-justified public sector cuts. The library was the original “third place”, a zone for people to contemplate and connect between work and home, well before branded coffee shops and boutique malls. And any society worth its salt (perhaps Great, rather than Big) would be thinking about how to build on the public library – a supportive civic platform for new generations of workers and players, part-timers and freelancers, parents and singletons, trying to find the resources to shape their lives in unstable times.
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