Kim Cooper of the estimable 1947Project has started an organization, with her peers, to speak up for the borrowers among us, people for whom the public library is a necessary institution. And just in time for National Library week, which started on Sunday.

Yesterday Cooper announced the launch of a new website devoted to challenging the new $1 borrow fee planned for July and other measures:

I am part of a grassroots collective of passionate library users who are deeply disturbed by the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch loan fee that will be charged beginning July 1st.