Saima Mir says as a child Bradford's libraries gave her access to 'a world I wasn't encountering'.
Saima Mir says as a child libraries in Bradford gave her access to "a world I wasn't encountering every day in life"
But Bradford-born crime writer Saima Mir said cuts to library services were a “false economy” which could leave people with an “educational and emotional gap”. "Libraries are the only place in the world where you can go and access something for nothing and sit there in a quiet room and learn something - and you never have to give any money to the person,” she said.Figures obtained by the BBC show that in 2016, Bradford had 23 council-run and staffed libraries. However, by 2023 that number had shrunk to 12.
Despite requests by objectors, the then-Conservative government said last year it would not intervene. "They are the most powerful things in the world. They change things, they change people, and they show us the way the world can be." A previous BBC study found 8,000 library jobs had been lost and 343 venues closed between 2010 and 2016 in the UK.
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