IN RECENT weeks, the Oxford Mail has published a number of articles about the rebuilding of the Westgate Centre, in particular giving details of what is to happen to the Central Library over the next 21 months or so.
The temporary arrangements for the library do not include any public internet access computers at all, and library computer users are invited to go to one of the other libraries in the city.
Surely this will not be very convenient for many library users.
I have been using the computers at Headington Library for quite a while now, and there are not many spare one-hour sessions available on the three computers which can be booked in advance, or used by anyone dropping-in on the off-chance.
I would have thought that the already-hard-pressed staff in the outlying libraries are going to get inundated with telephone calls to book a computer, as well as more casual visitors wanting to use a computer.
Given the number of computers which I understand the Central Library currently has available, with them all being available for eight hours a day, six days a week, I calculate that more than 100,000 one-hour computer time-slots are going to be unavailable for the duration of the building work.
Why has no-one written to the Oxford Mail to complain?
LEN PORTER
London Road, Headington
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