Simon Richardson

Simon Richardson is Head of Libraries at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). He has worked at DCMS since 2004 and represents the Department on the Leadership for Libraries Taskforce.

Parliamentary Report on Libraries: a response

Simon Richardson, 1 March 2016 - Taskforce

As many of you have noticed, the House of Commons Library recently published a Report on Public Libraries. It updated a similar report published in 2011. The Libraries Taskforce team and DCMS libraries policy team would like to confirm that …

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