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Libraries tackle loneliness

Posted by: Ayub Khan, Service Manager (Universal Services), Warwickshire and Libraries Connected President Elect, Posted on: 21 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: communities, Outcome: wellbeing
Knitter and natter group Nuneaton library. Photo credit: Wayne Mathews/Warwickshire libraries

Ayub Khan writes about the role libraries play in helping to reduce loneliness and social isolation, sharing examples from his libraries in Warwickshire

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From Chester to Newcastle - Arts in Libraries are being embraced in the North

Posted by: Owen Hutchings, Posted on: 16 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
Family arts session in Newcastle. Photo credit: Newcastle library

Examples of innovative events, performances, exhibitions and participatory arts interventions taking place in libraries across the North, shared during Arts In Libraries networking sessions

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Arts Council England consultation: opportunities for libraries

Posted by: Anthony Hopkins, Posted on: 15 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture, Taskforce
Children engage with Joseph Coelho's Tree Child on the Spark Arts tour. Photo credit: Pamela Raith Photography / The Spark Arts

As Arts Council England work on their strategy covering the next 10 years, Anthony Hopkins encourages library services to get involved and respond to the call for evidence.

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Integrated communities green paper

Posted by: Sheila Bennett, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: communities
Ipswich county library multicultural day - standing together.

New government green paper: what it says about libraries, and how library workers can contribute to the consultation

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Dionne Hood: PPC Librarian of the Year

Posted by: Dionne Hood, Posted on: 13 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Library workforce
Poetry filming in Bradford. Photo credit: Dionne Hood/Bradford libraries

Dionne writes about her work in Bradford libraries

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A ‘Flourishing’ library - in Mowbray Gardens, Rotherham

Posted by: Chris Gaynor and Alnaar Clayton, Posted on: 12 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: communities
Artwork created during the Butterfly project.

Fascinating and diverse range of community projects taking place in a library in Rotherham

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Lunch at the library - an update

Posted by: Mandy Macdonald, Posted on: 9 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: culture, Outcome: learning
Looking down on children having Lunch at the library.

An update on the LOFE funded project that ran in Plymouth libraries

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Setting our goals

Posted by: Kim Bromley-Derry, Posted on: 7 March 2018 - Categories: Taskforce
Taskforce action plan to March 2020

Kim Bromley-Derry sets out the Taskforce goals for 2018 and beyond

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Islington’s reading champion: an interview with Councillor Raphael Andrews

Posted by: Tony Brown, Posted on: 28 February 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: literacy

At the start of Islington Reads week 2018, and the launch of their 2018:Year of Reading programme, Tony Brown talked to their reading champion.

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British Standards Online

Posted by: Deborah Brown, Posted on: 26 February 2018 - Categories: Digital
Screenshot of the BSOL homepage

Deborah Brown from the British Standards Institute writes about their new offer for libraries.

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