We are continuing our campaign, and continue to lobby for intervention from Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt (who are responsible for superintending library services nationwide) to avoid yet more needless waste of public money and irreparable damage to our library service.
The "hollowing out" of the library service is catastrophic at a time when illiteracy costs the country £81bn a year and one child in three does not own a single book.
That's a very big job which we don't feel we're able to undertake: the library could need 20 to 40 volunteers.
Our library is housed in the old primary school hall.
They have introduced "self service" machines that perform most library duties, and have radically cut down on staff.
This is still ongoing but the council has assured us that they will fully fund the library for the next few years.
In January 2011, we asked the community to borrow every book (16,000) in our library in protest of its proposed closure.
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.
Iranian media affiliated to the Islamic regime have been accused of using library images from different times and locations in Britain and other parts of the world to portray the UK riots as "the uprising of the oppressed against the British monarchy".
The library at Worcester Cathedral was founded in Saxon times and today holds a fine collection of medieval manuscripts, post-medieval books and archive documents.
"This is the first time that a European library has ever handed control to a band," says Debra King, director of Brighter Sound, who are producing the event.
