Sir, It was shocking to turn up recently at Tenby Library, on a Wednesday, and find it closed. A library reaches out to everyone, regardless of status and wealth, and provides the springboard for ideas, philosophies, hobbies, and inspiration. Without a good library, a town lowers its intellectual expectations and the enormous choice and freedom to peruse books, not just for entertainment, but for quality of life, becomes the prerogative of the rich. You demote a library, and you thereby demote the continuing development of mature, but more importantly, young people. As in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which paper will burn, without regular, free access to literature, you restrict Tenby's intellectual growth. It shouldn't always be about the 'bottom line' - at some point higher motives should come into it, otherwise why have a head of cultural services? Helene McKenna