IN the ongoing discussion regarding cost-cutting measures in our libraries, may I mention the seldom-acknowledged home reader service.

A dedicated staff try to identify with any specific request, be it in fiction, DVDs and the more serious interests.

Their monthly visits are a lifeline to so many of us and their help and pleasant personalities are a credit to the library service. Long may it continue.

D Foster, Greasby.

(A housebound but mentally-adept Globe reader, aged 94.)