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A new source of funding for library activities

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 11 August 2016 - Categories: Library news, Taskforce

SCL are on the government's Digital Training and Support Framework

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Basic data set - first steps

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 8 August 2016 - Categories: Data, Taskforce

First steps towards an open, comprehensive and definitive data set related to public libraries in England

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#LovetoRead

Posted by: Stephen James-Yeoman, Posted on: 27 July 2016 - Categories: Case study, Outcome: literacy
LovetoRead logo: hands holding a heart, folded as though it were a book

In this guest post Stephen shares the story so far on the #LovetoRead campaign, and lets us know what is planned

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A week is a long time in politics

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 26 July 2016 - Categories: Taskforce
Rob Wilson MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. Photo credit: DCMS

Kathy Settle introduces the new Libraries Minister, and explains what this means for Libraries Deliver

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Pokemon in libraries?

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 22 July 2016 - Categories: Case study, Digital, Outcome: digital
Caught in Jersey library. Photo credit: Ed Jewell/Jersey Libraries

Overview of the current digital phenomenon - and whats in it for libraries?

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What is your name? What is your favorite color? What is the airspeed velocity of a library?

Posted by: Margaret Craft, Posted on: 18 July 2016 - Categories: Taskforce
Hillsborough library - one of the libraries I visited in Sheffield. Photo credit: Margaret Craft

Guest post written by Margaret Craft, a library science graduate student studying at the iSchool, Syracuse University, New York, who spent summer in the UK

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Supporting libraries in the digital age

Posted by: Sharon Wagg, Posted on: 15 July 2016 - Categories: Digital, Outcome: digital
Just a few of the learners who were supported through the project. Photo credit: Tinder Foundation

Guest post written by Sharon Wagg, following publication of the final report following the Tinder Foundation's project which looked at how libraries could help the digitally excluded

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Celebrating Shakespeare 2016 - the party goes on

Posted by: Ayub Khan, Service Manager (Universal Services), Warwickshire and Libraries Connected President Elect, Posted on: 29 June 2016 - Categories: Events, Library news
Sir Ian McKellen is no stranger to Shakespeare

Guest post from Ayub Khan MBE, the Celebrating Shakespeare 2016 Steering Group Chair

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Soul of the City: a vision for the future of public libraries in Hull

Posted by: Dr Richard Heseltine, Posted on: 23 June 2016 - Categories: Case study
Finale of the Freedom Festival, Freedom To Tell Tales

Guest post written by Dr Richard Heseltine, Chair of the James Reckitt Library Trust

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“Not another Nick?!”

Posted by: Nick Partridge, Posted on: 16 June 2016 - Categories: Taskforce
Quote painted on the walls of Sheffield central library: "There is no institution I value more in this country than libraries" Michael Palin

Introducing Nick Partridge, the latest secondee to join the Taskforce

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