Library closure prompts protest

Campaigners in Friern Barnet, north London, have set up a ‘pop-up’ library in protest of the closure of their local library. The make-shift library has been set up in a marquee on the green opposite the town's library, which closed earlier this month, a casualty of the council spending cuts.

Campaign group Save Friern Barnet Library says “it has been used by thousands of people who now have nowhere to go.” (Writers’ Forum, June ‘12) The campaigners need more support and have asked local residents to donate books and visit the ‘pop-up’ library.

The campaign has urged a Barnet Council spokesman to say that they will work with the group to open a permanent community library.