Read-iscover Summer: Celebrating Reading Week
As we Rediscover Summer, we celebrate Reading Week from 26 July to 1 August. From reading your favourite books to visiting the places that inspired them, where will reading take you this summer?
Sarah Mears is Library Service Manager for Essex Libraries. She is also a member of the Society of Chief Librarians Executive and leads on the Culture Offer. She was National Chair of the Association of Senior Children and Education Librarians from 2013 to 2016 and also chairs the Young People’s Library Survey Group for CIPFA.
As we Rediscover Summer, we celebrate Reading Week from 26 July to 1 August. From reading your favourite books to visiting the places that inspired them, where will reading take you this summer?
Sarah Mears and Miranda McKearney write about their Engaging Libraries project, and share projects running in libraries to mark Empathy Day
The team from Essex libraries write about the new family space in Chelmsford libraries - they love it, and so do visitors: “My two year old loves it and didn’t want to leave”
Sarah Mears, Library Service Manager, Essex Libraries and Chair of the Young People’s Library Survey Group writes about the recent report which analysed the Young People’s Library Survey from 2014 -2017.
The DCMS Libraries team supports ministers, as they oversee and promote the improvement of local government's provision of public library services in England. It is also responsible for other library policy such as DCMS sponsorship of the British Library and Public Lending Right Scheme. On this blog, members of the team talk about their work. Find out more