My apologies to Roz, who is more on the ball than I thought. She suggested looking at alternative ways of running services in these threatened libraries, which I thought was pie in the sky. But it seems not necessarily so - Eco Libraries are looking at all sorts of things:

http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.p...98&p=43909

The ubiquitous Chrissie Gittins is at Sydenham, reading from 12:15 to 12:25. Think I'll pop out for a fag then. What is a "local poet", anyway, as distinct from "a poet"?