This, according to The Telegraph.
From the story...
...budgets for books and librarians are being continually cut as schools invest more money in IT equipment.
In recent months, attention has focused on one comprehensive in Chesterfield that announced it would be getting rid of its librarian in favour of a "virtual learning assistant".
Mr Cottrell Boyce said: "When I visit many schools, I see a big, fat, glaring, expensive anti-reading for pleasure signal.
"It stands where the library used to stand and it's called the learning resource centre. To turn your library into a learning resource centre, you generally have to chuck out a bunch of valuable, durable assets – books – and replace them with sub-prime computers which will quickly date."
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