Open the books

I am underwhelmed by the postlockdown re-opening of the Auckland Council libraries. As a correspondent pointed out last week, council management has had six weeks to prepare for timely resumption of services. Businesses small and large were raring to go back to work as soon as level 2 commenced. In contrast libraries required an additional week to get ready and even then only 31 out 55 libraries (56 per cent, or just over half ) opened on May 20, with resulting inevitable congestion; the rest “will follow after Queens Birthday”.

I hope this actually means that the remaining 24 libraries will open and that we do not find this has been an opportunity for the council to decide some will stay closed for good.

Tony Devitt, Avondale.