Do libraries need more protection?
Libraries have been an important part of the community for centuries, but more and more they’re becoming less and less of a staple of people’s lives. We ask the people of Newport whether our libraries need more protections, funding and updates, or whether they should be forgotten about.
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00:00As for me, it's not a part, it's not something that I use or would miss, but I can understand a lot of people, it's company for a lot of people, a lot of older people I know go sit there, meet the same people, some got little coffee sort of areas in them, so I think to a lot of people it might be a massive sort of, you know, massive sort of thing for them to lose.
00:19It's something that we do within work at the moment, so a couple of weeks ago I went with three service users because we do the newsletter group, so we went to Newport library actually and we went and got a lot of facts about the Newport history, which has been really effective for what we're doing within my job. It was quite big actually as well, I've been in one for years and years since I was in school, so I do find it quite useful.
00:40I recently rediscovered the library, got my library card back and have been getting books from the library for the last year or so, and it's so handy when stuff is tight financially to be able to go and borrow books. It's something that I kind of forgot existed for a while, I think they got less used for a while.