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Sharing the love of reading

Posted by: Emma House, Posted on: 26 August 2016 - Categories: Case study, Outcome: literacy
Author Philip Reeve and Illustrator Sarah McIntyre, passionate supporters of the campaign. Photo credit: Seonaid MacLeod/Publishers Association

Emma describes the Publishers Association campaign to promote reading for pleasure

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Summer reading challenges - for grownups

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 24 August 2016 - Categories: Case study, Outcome: literacy
Launch of the Adult Reading Challenge. Photo credit: Oxfordshire libraries

Summer reading challenges are not just for children - we share Oxfordshire's programme and more

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Increased reading and literacy: how libraries deliver

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 23 August 2016 - Categories: Case study, Good practice, Outcome: literacy, Taskforce
Big Friendly Read display in Chatham library. Photo credit: Libraries Taskforce/Julia Chandler

This is the first in a series of posts in which we aim to explore the outcomes that libraries support individuals and communities in their area to achieve

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LEGO Libraries - A year on……

Posted by: Fiona Tarn, Posted on: 15 August 2016 - Categories: Case study
Delivering a First LEGO league session. Photo credit: xx

An update on CCS libraries work with LEGO Education

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A new source of funding for library activities

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 11 August 2016 - Categories: Library news, Taskforce

SCL are on the government's Digital Training and Support Framework

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Basic data set - first steps

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 8 August 2016 - Categories: Data, Taskforce

First steps towards an open, comprehensive and definitive data set related to public libraries in England

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#LovetoRead

Posted by: Stephen James-Yeoman, Posted on: 27 July 2016 - Categories: Case study, Outcome: literacy
LovetoRead logo: hands holding a heart, folded as though it were a book

In this guest post Stephen shares the story so far on the #LovetoRead campaign, and lets us know what is planned

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A week is a long time in politics

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 26 July 2016 - Categories: Taskforce
Rob Wilson MP - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. Photo credit: DCMS

Kathy Settle introduces the new Libraries Minister, and explains what this means for Libraries Deliver

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Pokemon in libraries?

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 22 July 2016 - Categories: Case study, Digital, Outcome: digital
Caught in Jersey library. Photo credit: Ed Jewell/Jersey Libraries

Overview of the current digital phenomenon - and whats in it for libraries?

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What is your name? What is your favorite color? What is the airspeed velocity of a library?

Posted by: Margaret Craft, Posted on: 18 July 2016 - Categories: Taskforce
Hillsborough library - one of the libraries I visited in Sheffield. Photo credit: Margaret Craft

Guest post written by Margaret Craft, a library science graduate student studying at the iSchool, Syracuse University, New York, who spent summer in the UK

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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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