Time to invest in good reading for everyone | Letters

Wonderful news that Rob Wilson, the junior minister responsible for libraries, has recognised that libraries provide a vital public service to communities and has made an extra 4m available (Libraries to get 4m to diversify, 2 December).

Here in Suffolk, our Industrial Provident Society (IPS) has been incredibly successful in managing its reducing budget for the county libraries. However, this is likely to change in the light of proposed cuts. Suffolk Libraries IPS will have to save a further 230,000 in the next financial year (2017/2018). This is on top of the previous year's cut of 350,000. Over the past five years the total budget will have shrunk from almost 9m to a little over 5m if these latest cuts go ahead.