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Spotted in the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Library in Norton. Today I'm mugging-up on Thomas Jefferson Hogg, one of Norton's famous sons. He became a barrister after Oxford University where he befriended Percy Bysshe Shelley, and went on to become one of Shelley's earliest biographers. The Hogg family home was Norton House, a fine Georgian building on Norton Green, a few minutes walk from the library. In the way of things the "House" has been converted into flats, becoming a "Hall" in the transformation and sadly there are no reminders of its literary association, at least not on the outside of the building. Alan Bennett does better by Norton, but he was always a stalwart for provision of public libraries. Personally, I am terribly conflicted about the place of libraries in the modern age. What are they for exactly? Why are they so full of books and empty of customers? I support my local libraries in-so-far as keeping abreast of their "What's On" programmes and I never fail to go along to anything of interest, especially listening to and meeting authors. But this hardly seems to be sufficient to keep them going in the age of Amazon and charity shops. Maybe I am lucky but I buy all my books and want them around me which I have to say on a personal level exposes the flaw at the centre of the operational model adopted by public libraries, they expect you to take the books back! Well I ask you? |
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