{"id":706,"date":"2011-01-20T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-01-20T01:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:03:17","slug":"mass_borrowing_protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/mass_borrowing_protest","title":{"rendered":"Mass Borrowing Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" alt=\"empty library\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2011\/empty_library2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Residents in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire have taken up a novel form of protesting the spate of government cutbacks. Faced with the prospect of their local library being closed down, Stony Stratforders have borrowed every single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/books-pads\/c-42\">book<\/a> from it in a bid to stop the closure.<\/p>\n<p>In total they have taken out all 16,000 books to empty the library&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/office-furniture\/shelving\/l-2201\">shelves<\/a>. Campaigner Emily Malleson calculated the books had checked out at a rate of around 378 per hour after a successful <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Paperstone\">Facebook<\/a> appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A local resident mentioned the idea, maybe as a bit of a joke, but we thought it was a great idea so we put it to FOSSL [Friends of Stony Stratford Library],&rdquo; said Malleson.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I put it on Facebook and emailed everyone I could think of and it&#8217;s just gone absolutely mad. I think it&#8217;s a very simple but clever idea and it&#8217;s given something that people can act on and make their voice heard. The amount of support is just staggering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,000 supporters have joined the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/pages\/Save-Stony-Stratford-Library\/165137526857264\">Save Stony Stratford Library<\/a> Facebook page and there is an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/epetitionsmk.firmstep.com\/node\/19\">online petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/books-pads\/c-42\">Notebooks and notepads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire have taken up a novel form of protesting the spate of government cutbacks. Faced with the prospect of their local library being closed down, Stony Stratforders have borrowed every single book from it in a bid to stop the closure. 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