I'll fight to the death a person's right to close down a library, but I'll fight to his death before he can do it. I find my veneration for libraries difficult to precisely understand. The closest I can get to describing my feeling for them is to compare them to anything which is more than the sum of its parts. There's more in a library than books on shelves and tables with careful chairs and obsessive-compulsive shhhshers. It's a spiritual place, like some cathedrals want to be. It's simply wrong to do anything to any library - not just a gorgeous, expensive one - except keep it going, and I think a tax-hating, penny-pinching, semi-or-anti-literate curmudgeon still has enough moral underpinning to agree to paying a little for the cause. Anyone else is plain evil. Imho.