The Mayor of Ilminster, Councillor Val Keitch, is organising a public meeting to discuss the future of the town’s library.
Somerset County Council is currently considering 3 options for library services in Ilminster:
· No change to the existing library services
· Providing library services through a partnership with the local community to maintain a library building in Ilminster
· By delivering outreach library services (such as events, activities, small book collections and / or public computer terminals via alternative venues), and providing an additional mobile library stop. This would mean the closure of the current library building with library services being provided in other ways.
The Mayor said, “The Library is important to lots of people and offers so much more than borrowing books, it is an important community facility. The public meeting will be a chance for people to learn about the options the County Council is considering and then for them to put forward their own thoughts and suggestions as to how the library could operate in the future. I am confident that by working together we can find a way of keeping library services in Ilminster.”
The meeting will be on 22 March at Swanmead School starting at 7.30pm, everyone is welcome and should just register when they arrive.
