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“HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!” – Libraries fail to make the ‘Top 20 Cool Icons of the Year’ award…Again.


Well, dear readers, this latest news has left me quite flummoxed, as you can well imagine.


When members of my research team telegraphed me with this latest snippet, I was perplexed in the extreme: I`m a fairly contemporary/cool sort of chap:…my neatly ironed beige polyester safari suit always draws gasps of admiration whenever I saunter around Sidcup in it, and I consider myself to be well-versed in the cutting-edge white-hot world of twentieth century technology.


Furthermore, many of my research staff have acquired reputations for being groovy hep cats…why! - many of them even wear little black dresses with smart corduroy patches on the elbows. (Hence the grooves!)


So, why oh why oh why are Librarians considered (ghastly word insert here) “Uncool”?...


Why oh why oh why is reading a nice musty hardback tome not on the “groovy” list?


And why on earth aren’t libraries considered “temples of the trendy”?...


It defeats me, it really does. Can you help, dear readers?


Answers on a postcard, please…


Or, as a radically cool innovation, I’m now led to believe that you can communicate with us directly and via the medium of the electronic cable network, simply by clicking on the COMMENTS tab below.


Clever, eh? What will they think of next?... how about places where books, information, entertainment, communication, imagination, lifelong learning, heritage, escapism, research, toddling about and singing nursery rhymes, experience, civilization, training, free-thinking, all sorts of people, serendipity, understanding, joining-in, enchantment, events, wisdom, communities, science, activities, contentment, diversity, knowledge, ideas, the arts, companionship, aspiration, short stories and tall tales, enjoyment, media, dreams, conversation, news and views, enlightenment, stories, creativity, re-skilling, partnerships, innovation, sharing, culture, study, being able to think “cor! – that was good”, literacy, guidance, humanity, individualism, the webby web, plus good old unadulterated fun and – even, dare I say it - ‘Romance’ are all gathered together, open to all, free of charge?


No, no…that would never catch on, of course! ‘Cos that would be cool….



Cheerybye.!