Fife library closures will be a ‘looming catastrophe’

Abandoning Fife’s libraries has been slammed as a “policy of despair”.

With controversial plans to axe 16 libraries now open to public consultation, campaigners are stepping up their efforts to save what award-winning author James Robertson described as the “lifeblood” of communities.

Revealing Colinsburgh Library users’ group had been in talks in the past about voluntarily providing help, its chairman Peter Marshall called on Fife Cultural Trust and Fife Council to think again.

It was better, he argued, to invest in libraries as “to abandon libraries seems to me to be a policy of despair.” Meanwhile, Youth MSP Lewis Akers called for Fifers to “stand in solidarity” against the “looming catastrophe”.

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