a period of three years, with a further review at the end of that period. I don't live in London, but I've used the Women's Library for research on many occasions now. I've found the staff to be approachable and friendly, and the reading room is accessible both in the physical sense but also in the sense that accessing it doesn't involve masses of layers of bureaucracy. There doesn't appear to be a criteria you have to satisfy to access the collection, you don't have to apply months in advance, and as long as you abide by the reading room rules (which are sensible) then you can use the collection. Without the Women's Library both the punk women series and the Shocking Pink piece would both have had substantial holes in them. Libraries are not just places to go when the weathers cold, when you want to borrow a DVD, when you want to apply for a job online, they are also archives. They store things. The Women's Library in London stores women's history, and if it goes, so will a lot of that history. On a similar theme of libraries suddenly looking financially vulnerable, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, which includes an impressive archive of feminist pamphlets, journals, ephemera and publications within its collections, announced a massive fundraising drive late last year following funding cuts from Salford Council. Salford is a Labour council and, as such, has been especially hard hit by local government spending cuts. As