Enhance and promote the information infrastructure through policy. If the information society referred to in Our Information Age is to be realised investment in libraries is vital as a key part of the infrastructure. Relate policy and achievement to funding. Locate libraries at the heart of programmes for the planning and delivery of public information, health and well being, community safety, education and learning, economic regeneration. Stop investing in new institutions to do what libraries already can do - focus your investment.
Libraries are the essence of inclusion.
And turns the key to the whole world. Ted Hughes, July 1997 . These pages were last updated on 30th March 2000.