Comments on: Library Friends may not necessarily be Council Friends https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/library-friends-may-not-necessarily-be-council-friends.html What's happening to your library? Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Julie Boston https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/library-friends-may-not-necessarily-be-council-friends.html#comment-5623 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:02:34 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=3828#comment-5623 Bristol library has invited poems for National Libraries Day. I shall encourage Joe Tebbutt to submit this to his South London library – if it still functions.

Jim’s visit to a London library

JIM
There once was a boy called Jim
Who asked the librarian
Can I take out a book that will teach me to cook
And the food must keep me quite thin

LIBRARIAN
I’m sorry i cannot help you
I’m really sorry it’s true
But the libraries all closed down
Because of people like you

JIM
What did i do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIBRARIAN
You didn’t help us by writing
You didn’t help us by chanting
If you’d helped us all by fighting
then reading would be a cruise.

joe.t (age 11) 2011

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