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Public libraries for social, digital and economic inclusion: #Chances4Life

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 10 November 2017 - Categories: Events
Award winners Aude Charillon (left) and Julie Thomson (right). Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries

Round up of CILIP's Public and Mobile Libraries group (PMLG) biennial conference - #Chances4Life, aiming to show how public libraries support social, digital and economic inclusion.

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Hackney community library service: meeting the needs of isolated people

Posted by: Chris Garnsworthy, Posted on: 7 November 2017 - Categories: Outcome: communities
The Hackney Community Library Service team (plus, in the centre, Jon Burke, lead councillor for the service). Photo credit: Hackney Council

How Hackney community library service is meeting the needs of isolated people and the video they created to show the service in action.

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Bump Booster - new toolkit to help staff support parents-to-be

Posted by: Charlotte Lane, Posted on: 6 November 2017 - Categories: Good practice, Outcome: literacy
Sue Ball (ASCEL chair) and Diane Dixon (created the Bump Booster toolkit)

Bump Booster is a new online resource developed for ASCEL to help library staff support parents-to-be

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Keep Antibiotics Working – highlighting the risks of taking antibiotics when you don’t need them

Posted by: Susan Hopkins, Posted on: 2 November 2017 - Categories: Outcome: wellbeing
Image from PHE campaign material

News about the latest campaign from Public Health England - and free resources relating to it available to libraries

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#OurDay 2017

Posted by: Ian Leete, Posted on: 1 November 2017 - Categories: Events
graphic containing date: 21 November 2017 and hashtag: #ourday

The Local Government Association’s Ian Leete shares plans for this year’s campaign

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Thinking about exploring an alternative delivery model for your library service?

Posted by: Peter Gaw, Posted on: 31 October 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this
Logos of the 5 organisations involved in the consortium. From left: Suffolk libraries, Inspire, Mutual Ventures, Explore York, and Libraries Unlimited

Peter Gaw invites people to a masterclass intended to support library services considering exploring alternative delivery models

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A growing cultural quarter in Halifax

Posted by: Julia Chandler and Jon Medcalf, Posted on: 30 October 2017 - Categories: Library news
New library

As the new library and archives centre opens in Halifax, we reflect on how the project came about, and report on the opening ceremony.

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The Word celebrates its first birthday

Posted by: Julia Robinson, Posted on: 27 October 2017 - Categories: Library news
Inside The Word.

Julia Robinson, Principal Librarian at South Tyneside Libraries, writes about the first anniversary of the opening of the new library in South Shields

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Understanding cultural engagement: introducing the Cambridgeshire Culture Card

Posted by: Michelle Lord, Posted on: 26 October 2017 - Categories: Data, Outcome: culture
Cambridgeshire Culture Card creative consultation sessions (image credit: The District)

Michelle Lord writes about a project to bring local partners together to offer a consistent and high quality art and cultural education to all children and young people.

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One year on from Ambition: let us know what you think

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 25 October 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this, Taskforce
printed action plan with postit note saying: one year on - what next?

As we approach the first anniversary of publication of our strategy, we'd like your views on what we've been doing. This short post links to a survey.

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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 the Public Lending Right Scheme and DCMS' sponsorship of the British Library and The National Archives. On this blog, we showcase the work of public libraries and their role in supporting the government's priorities. Find out more

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