As mentioned in our post on 3rd November, there is a long list of activities on the digital for public library services agenda, and I wont have time to work on them all. I’m therefore really pleased that the Taskforce …
Eileen Russell shares her experience of being a Carnegie Library Lab Partner: Since becoming a Carnegie Library Lab Partner I have grown in confidence and become more future-focused: the experience has been life changing.
Isabel Oswell, head of business audiences at the British Library reflects on how your library card could be your passport to business success: When did you last visit your nearest city library? Have you always associated them with books, rather …
Cllr Ian Stephens, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Culture, Tourism and Sport Board writes about #OurDay: Every year people in local government and public services get together for a 24-hour tweetathon to raise the profile of the great work …
Sharon Kirkpatrick and Sue Wills' blog of 12 October highlighted the importance we place in members of the library workforce influencing the work of the Taskforce. We do this through a number of mechanisms - for example, SCL and CILIP …
Our second guest post today, this one from Nick Poole, CEO of CILIP: Thanks to the skills and dedication of their staff, libraries across the UK deliver effective low-cost services and innovative ideas every day which help their communities address …
Guest post from Jacqueline Widdowson, Chair of the Public and Mobile Libraries Group: On 9th October 2015, three outstanding public library staff received recognition for their achievements, at the Public and Mobile Libraries Group conference Awards Dinner.
In our first guest post, Stella Duffy talks about libraries and Fun Palaces: The library has always held a special place in my life, the Woolwich Library, down the road from the south London council flat where I was born …
Since our previous post on the different libraries we have visited, team members have continued to make the most of every opportunity to visit libraries.
We want to make sure that the Libraries Taskforce take every opportunity to include views from people with a wide range of experience. We were, therefore, very pleased when members of staff from the public library sector were prepared to help.