Crime author Pauline Rowson supports libraries with events, Love Your Libraries Campaign and Love Libraries Day
News comes via The Bookseller that the Women's Institute, whom I've given many talks to about my DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime novels and thrillers , will mark the 96th anniversary of its first meeting on 16th September with an action to support its Love Your Libraries campaign . The WI's membership are being asked to each borrow a book from their local library on the day "in recognition of the continued importance of the WI's early vision to widen educational opportunities". It is the latest step in the institute's library campaign. In August, it launched an e-petition in support of public libraries. Anything that helps to keep our libraries alive and thriving is good news as far as I'm concerned, which is why I am also supporting and getting involved in Love Libraries Day - Saturday 4 February 2012, when I will be organising and appearing at an event at Portsmouth Library and possibly a few other libraries around the Solent area...