Libraries Crisis Set To Get 'Much Worse' This Year

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Libraries Crisis Set To Get 'Much Worse' This Year

Posted at 7:25PM Tuesday 15 Jan 2013

The bleak situation for the country's public libraries will get "much worse" this year, according to experts, with sweeping cuts already on the horizon in Sheffield and Islington.

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