not just educate themselves but can have their eyes (sorry the pun!) to all the wonders of the written word! Here is to campainers for libraries wherever they are! LSX Lipsticksocialist.wordpress .com I think I should perhaps have been clearer in my post: I didn't actually mean to imply that libraries are ONLY a feminist issue. I asked whether libraries ARE a feminist issue, but I never meant to imply that the issues affecting libraries are only feminist, merely to ask the question as to whether there is a feminist aspect to the debate around libraries. It is, of course, perfectly natural that some of our readers will think that libraries are a feminist issue, and some of our readers will not think that libraries are a feminist issue. To think that libraries are a feminist issue does not then mean that libraries are only a feminist issue: of course wider issues are at stake. One of the important things that both Salford WC Library and the Women's Library are exhibitions and talks around their collection that explicitly on feminism and on women's history (as well as aiding the research behind those exhibitions and talks). Their events are often well-attended and so they are a major way that the general public learn about women's history. And this is a feminist issue, because women's oppression is often based on a mythical past that we, women, are supposedly escaping and so disrupting the 'natural' order of things. So, it disrupts myths like