We are now consulting regarding potential legal action and hoping against hope that the 12 libraries being thrown over to the community with the threat of volunteer-or-lose-it, will survive long enough for the future council members to realise their costly error and resume running this vital social and educational service.
In November 2011 Gloucestershire library users won a high court judicial review against Gloucestershire County Council's (GCC's) plans to close 10 static libraries and all mobile libraries, and reduce opening hours and services at many more, with Judge McKenna quashing the council's plans entirely.
The issue came to light when the estate took a number of photo libraries to court in the middle of the last decade for selling her image on without permission.
While libraries are big, the university is bigger, so students have to race in the morning to secure a space to revise.
"Dozens of volunteer libraries have already been set up, but there has been real confusion over whether they could be found in breach of copyright legislation.
"Will the minister therefore tell the House why he has not moved to implement the extension of the public lending right to ebooks, as mandated in section 43 of the Digital Economy Act 2010?" Vaizey told Jarvis in response that "part of the problem with ebooks is that most publishers do not want ebooks lent in libraries.
A Wanted Man, also by Lee Child, was the second most popular while Fifty Shades of Grey became the third most borrowed book in UK libraries in 2012-13.
There is nothing in the libraries and op-ed pages on European disintegration.
Its accessibility in terms of price makes the march of 'Spoons' seem inevitable, particularly in a world in which public space is ever-shrinking: it lines its pubs with books while libraries are closing, and competes with supermarket beer prices while offering more company than a living room or kitchen.
He could co-ordinate an overdue marketing effort to boost awareness of libraries among the public.
The benefit of libraries to communities is harder to measure, but I've seen it with my own eyes, in libraries large and small, from Barnsley to Bermondsey.
