Libraries important for human contact, Children's Laureate says

BBCFrank Cottrell-Boyce said libraries had been an essential part of his formative yearsLibraries must be protected as places of learning and reading and as spaces "where we bump into each other and make acquaintance and see each other", Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said.An investigation by the BBC has found local councils have stopped running more than 180 libraries nationally, with many now kept…