A short documentary film protesting at the proposed library closures had people queuing up to take part.
As well as the residents of central Somerset who took part in the filming at Tor Leisure, the film also features a few familiar faces, including Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis, Wells MP Tessa Munt, Downton Abbey screenwriter and new member of the House of Lords Julian Fellowes and Anne Chisholm, chair of the Royal Society of Literature, who are also set to take part in the six-minute film.
The film will "challenge the extent and the permanence of the cuts to library services and address the likely impact to communities both now and in the future," said film-maker Ken Kutsch.
The film-makers have also received a letter of support from Sir David Attenborough, who wrote: "I owe my career to the books I borrowed from my local library in Leicester just as much as I do to the animals, plants and fossils of the Leicestershire countryside."
The trustees of the Library of Avalon, believed to be the only publicly-accessible esoteric library in Europe, has also issued a statement voicing their opposition to the closure of the library.
"In common with many scholars and academics worldwide, regard all libraries as temples of the divine Djehuti," said Chaz Heritage, a spokesman for the Library of Avalon.
"We believe that the destruction, desuetude or disestablishment of any library is on this basis tantamount to sacrilege.
"The trustees sincerely hope and expect that those who have proposed to close the local library will think again; such a closure would, in the opinion of the trustees, be strategically ill-conceived, culturally counterproductive, and logistically unnecessary."
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