Exhibition shows how library coped during the Occupation
HOW the Guille-Alles Library adapted to the demands of operating in occupied Guernsey will be the subject of a new display due to open later this week.
Banned books, stories of personal courage coupled with sacrifice and how people in England stockpiled books to send to the island once the war was over were uncovered in newly-researched documents from the library's attic.
Assistant Adam Bayfield, pictured, has spent the last few weeks with his head buried in the documents and found it all fascinating.
The library managed to stay open during the war, he said, but had to restrict its hours because of electricity rationing.
From quirky details such as that to the fact the library was presented with a list of books containing 'anti-German sentiment' which had to be handed over, he also found a far darker story.
