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What is your investment strategy?

Posted by: Brian Ashley, Posted on: 10 April 2017 - Categories: Library news
A Musical Rumpus. Photo © Spitalfields Music

Brian Ashley writes about the different ways Arts Council funding is made available

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Visiting the Hive and exploring the Digital Outcome: 13th meeting of the Libraries Taskforce

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 10 April 2017 - Categories: Taskforce
Central hall of The Hive. Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce

The Taskforce visited Worcester for its recent meeting.

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64 million artists

Posted by: Katie Dunstan, Posted on: 7 April 2017 - Categories: Outcome: culture
A selection of the projects contributed so far, including painting, creative writing, poetry, photography and craft. From the 64 million artists website

Arts Council England project which aims to unlock the creative potential of everyone.

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Libraries Taskforce sector forums - wrap up and reflections

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 5 April 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this
Taskforce panel in Whitechapel. From left: Kathy Settle, Ian Leete (LGA), Iain Varah (representing cCLOA) and Neil Macinnes (SCL). Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce

Final reflections from the Taskforce sector forums.

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Towards a public library skills strategy: workshops

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 4 April 2017 - Categories: Events, Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this
Alison Wheeler’s workshop. Photo credit: Alice Corble

The 7th and final post which reports the outputs of workshops run during the recent sector forums. This focuses on the workshops led by members of SCL looking at the development of the public libraries skills strategy.

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Building the evidence base

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 3 April 2017 - Categories: Research
Scoring the research suggestions. Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce

Kathy reports on recent workshops which mapped existing research, identified what else was needed, and started to prioritise next steps. Includes links to surveys where you can share your ideas.

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Library data: The story so far and next steps

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 30 March 2017 - Categories: Data

Progress towards a core dataset.

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Alternative delivery models: masterclass reports

Posted by: Jonathan Lindley and Sheila Bennett, Posted on: 30 March 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this, Outcome: digital
Panel session at the workshop in York. Photo credit: Alissa Davies/Mutual Ventures

A joint post from Sheila Bennett and Jonathan Lindley following the recent masterclasses

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Meeting funding challenges with business support for enterprising libraries

Posted by: Sarah Thirtle, Posted on: 24 March 2017 - Categories: Libraries Deliver: how we'll achieve this

Sarah Thirtle writes about a programme designed specifically for organisations in the arts, museums and libraries.

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And the successful projects are….

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 22 March 2017 - Categories: Library news

Announcing the 30 winning ideas which will receive funding from the Libraries Opportunities for Everyone Innovation fund

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