DURING the Dorset County Council budget cuts, large amounts are being sliced out of the library service. However, there are four options on the table about how to achieve those cuts.

On the apparently preferred option B, it seems as ever the small rural libraries will suffer and the main town libraries will remain untouched. This is totally illogical as some of the smaller libraries are more efficient in cost per book lending than the large town libraries.

Wool library is in the top three of the cheapest cost per book issued. It is well used by young children with their parents who find the friendly space with a good choice of children’s books an excellent use of public money.

Wool, like many villages, has a high proportion of older people, some with mobility problems. On a Thursday morning there is a real buzz with regular meetings of old friends whose major social activity is using the library and the country market next door.

Wool library building is rented by DCC from the Durbeville Hall so shutting it will not provide any sale money for the county. The running costs of labour are tiny in comparison to town libraries.

This situation is ridiculous. To penalise rural villages in order to preserve the bureaucracy of career librarians in the large towns is unfair and discriminates against rural Dorset. Please lobby the county council and ask them to support option D which seeks to keep all libraries open and find savings from central administration.

CLLR ALEX BRENTON, East Morden, Wareham