I’m going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things.
Click on the link below for more of this wonderful lecture given by Neil Gaiman. “We have an obligation to imagine”…He gives The Reading Agency annual lecture on the future of reading and libraries with a focus on young people.
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming!
