Your report (February 6) gave an excellent account of the launch of Essex2020.

I feel sure your readers will let their children or grandchildren know about it.

The Chelmsford Society is to be congratulated on their imagination and initiative.

And they are aiming at the right people - schoolchildren.

Schoolchildren are bound to ask about the innovators.

Where did they get their ideas, inspiration and information from?

Many, if not most, did not have a formal academic education or resources.

The answer for many of them would be libraries, where if they did not have the information they would get it for them.

The internet was not there but experience shows that even now it is not dependable enough and mistakes are seldom corrected.

Over the border in Cambridge they believe in the value of libraries to all their citizens.

The libraries are not being shut down or downgraded.

They are to be enhanced and made more available by initiative and imagination and knowhow.

First with a pilot scheme to get it right.

I do not believe that Cambridge is any less cash-strapped than Essex.

The chief executive officer of Essex County Council is quoted at the launch: “Essex is a hugely creative county.” I am not sure what to make of that.

R Hedley

Rockingham Close,

Colchester