J.K. Rowling has joined forces with 150 authors to encourage U.K. citizens to take advantage of public libraries through the “
Love Libraries” campaign. Brought about due to the under-utilization of these libraries in recent years, the campaign is designed to encourage the public to take advantage of all that libraries have to offer.
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Rowling compared libraries to the World-Between-The-Worlds from C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as a "magical, mystical place, hushed and unhurried, where visitors could enter a thousand different worlds by jumping into different pools. When I got my eldest daughter a library card I felt as though I had bought her citizenship of that same fabulous world," she said.
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