With hundreds of libraries earmarked for closure, are people just going to stop venturing into libraries at all?

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Last August, libraries in Surrey accounted for 20% of all UK loans of the Fifty Shades series, Surrey County Council said.

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When in January of this year the insurgents torched two libraries belonging to the Ahmed Baba Institute, as they were retreating from Timbuktu, the covert rescue operation was already half-complete - and the libraries themselves had been all but empty for months.

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But Bell Atlantic, which recently offered all state schools and libraries the means to connect to the Internet for two years, is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.

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It will feature all kinds of artefacts and historical documents from libraries and museums, available free for a global audience to inspect online.

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Libraries, gyms, churches and other venues have all been lined up as part of the Children First program for students to register and take part in day-long programs.

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