Libraries risk sleepwalking through the century unless radical ideas are implemented, the arts minister Margaret Hodge claimed today, at the launch of a long-delayed, much-anticipated consultation document on the future of libraries in the UK.

No reason, they do every friggin' thing else according to my mum.

She works at a library and they now make them hand out little free doggy bags full of condoms to teenagers. Selling books seems a more likely suggestion than a jonny pusher.