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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/authors-to-stage-library-readins.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Library lovers across the country are to take part in a series of 'read-ins' in protest over threatened closures" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-authors-to-stage-library-readins.jpg" alt="Library lovers across the country are to take part in a series of 'read-ins' in protest over threatened closures"/></a></p>
<p>Library lovers across the country are to take part in a series of &#8220;read-ins&#8221; in protest over threatened closures.</p>
<p>Save Our Libraries Day will see more than 80 events held across the UK to bring attention to proposed government spending cuts.</p>
<p>More than 350 libraries are understood to be under threat of closure.</p>
<p>The events will be attended by authors including Philip Pullman and the musician Billy Bragg.</p>
<p>As well as quiet reading, some events will see storytelling, writing workshops and music.</p>
<p>Cambridge Central Library will see a flash mob book reading and Leeds City Library is asking people to dress as their favourite character from literature</p>
<p>His Dark Materials author Pullman will take part in an event at Oxford Central Library and Bragg will bring his guitar to Charmouth Library in Dorset.</p>
<p>Children&#8217;s author John Dougherty will take part in a &#8220;flying authors&#8221; tour through several libraries in Gloucestershire.</p>
<p>The day of campaigning comes after a study revealed children who used their local library were twice as likely to be above average readers.</p>
<p>The National Literacy Trust report, based on a survey of more than 17,000 eight to 16-year-olds, revealed that almost two-thirds (64.5%) of those who use the library are reading above the expected level for their age. For non-library users, this figure is just 35.5%.</p>
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