Library workers ‘put heart and soul into service’

“Do you know what I’ve got here: a gun” – tales from the libraries front line. Photo: Marcus Rose
 
“I grew up a bookworm in Puerto Rico, where there are no public libraries,” Gabriella Houlgraves from Maidstone told UNISON local government delegates in Liverpool this morning.
She asked them to imagine her joy when she came to the UK and discovered “a building full of more books than I could read in a lifetime” – which became even greate