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Making sure there’s time to read

Posted by: Ian Anstice, Posted on: 6 February 2018 - Categories: Outcome: literacy
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Ian Anstice writes about a unique North West library partnership

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Engaging Libraries projects underway

Posted by: Rachel Heydecker and Andy Wright, Posted on: 31 January 2018 - Categories: Outcome: wellbeing
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Rachel and Andy introduce the programme, share news of a couple of projects and write about the support network

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Joining the SCL family learning and digital roadshow

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 30 January 2018 - Categories: Outcome: digital, Outcome: learning
Amy Hearn about to launch a drone. Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce

Reporting back from Gateshead library on 3 workshops: coding a drone, walking with a puppy, and understanding family learning

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Community Managed Libraries Peer Support Network - progress report

Posted by: Margaret Adjaye and Emily Jewell, Posted on: 29 January 2018 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this
Noticeboard in Minchinhampton community library. Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce

An update on the work of the peer support network with links to their blogs, training programme and conference.

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Applying for funding masterclasses

Posted by: Charlotte Lane, Posted on: 23 January 2018 - Categories: Events, Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this

New applying for funding masterclasses from the Taskforce running in February and March - focusing on supporting services who want to apply for non-Arts Council funding.

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How does a council approach broader strategic planning?

Posted by: Lee Hemsworth, Posted on: 12 January 2018 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this, Library news
Compton Road library at the Compton centre. Photo credit: Leeds libraries

Lee Hemsworth, Chief Officer for Customer Access at Leeds City Council, shares Leeds’ perspective on strategic planning

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Coding with over 60s

Posted by: Rachel Benn, Posted on: 4 January 2018 - Categories: Outcome: digital
Coding. Photo credit: Rachel Benn/Leeds libraries

Rachel Benn writes about working with older people in Leeds. Coding? “It beats Sudoku!”

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So - that was 2017….. a year in libraries

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Kathy Settle, Charlotte Lane and Sheila Bennett, Posted on: 2 January 2018 - Categories: Taskforce
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The Taskforce team remembers 2017: highlights, visits, and achievements; and starts to look forward to 2018.

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Alternative delivery models: masterclass report

Posted by: Sheila Bennett and Rachel Corcoran, Posted on: 20 December 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this
Beeston library. Photo credit: Sheila Bennett/Libraries Taskforce

A report of the masterclass held in Beeston library - includes slides of the presentations

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Kent’s Digital Dens

Posted by: Jonathan Carton, Posted on: 19 December 2017 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: digital
Participants in the Ashford Digital Den using Ozobots. Photo credit: Ashford Library

Digital clubs in Kent libraries. Jonathan Carton writes about progress with their LOFE funded project.

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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

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