The Campaign for the Book was set up by the children's author, Alan Gibbons, and was formally launched in late September 2008 to fight cuts in school libraries, and to defend the place of books in libraries.

"The book remains the greatest single contributor to information technology in human history. A managed symbiosis of ICT and the book remain the gold standard. A cafe with a Playstation in the corner is not a library."

"If a man have not acquired the habit of reading until he be old, he shall sooner in his old age learn to make shoes than learn the adequate use of a book. And worse again; - under such circumstances, the making of shoes shall be more pleasant to him than the reading of a book. Let those who are not old - who are still young, ponder this well." Anthony Trollope from 'The Claverings'

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The Campaign for the Book was set up by the children's author, Alan Gibbons, and was formally launched in late September 2008 to fight cuts in school libraries, and to defend the place of books in libraries.

"The book remains the greatest single contributor to information technology in human history. A managed symbiosis of ICT and the book remain the gold standard. A cafe with a Playstation in the corner is not a library."

"If a man have not acquired the habit of reading until he be old, he... (read more)