I didn't read much as a child but in secondary school my friends and I discovered the wonders of Tolkein's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. That piqued my curiosity enough to investigate other authors which meant regular visits to the library. Although Fintry Community Library in Dundee was closest to where I lived, it was very small and run-down at the time so the shiny new Wellgate Library in the city centre was where I spent more time perusing the shelves and asking the librarians stupid questions.

With no Internet or Google available as a child, you could say the Library was our version of the Internet! My local Library, Teynham Library, was used regularly as a child whether it was our weekly school trip walking 2 by 2 to the library to choose a new reading book for the week ahead.

The “My Childhood Library Experience” is difficult for me as we didn’t have a library where I grew up. However, my Dad took me to the National Library of Aleppo several times as a kid in the 1980s and I do enjoy reading and quotations. My favourite is; "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you only have today!".

Towards the end of primary school, I would go to the library every month or so to check out a new book and sometimes have things printed, and I think that the school taking us so often encouraged me to keep going after they had stopped.

As a kid, my mum used to take me to our local library, Gourock Library, Scotland which I remember being a very large, old building that was always warm inside. They would always have events running for youngsters whenever I was there. I enjoyed going to the library, mainly because it had a better internet connection than my house, but I liked the books too.