Tackling loneliness through the proven power of reading
Debbie Hicks introduces The Reading Agency's Reading Friends scheme, which uses reading to tackle loneliness.
Network of support for people with cancer
Craig Tobin writes about a multi-stakeholder partnership providing a cancer advice service to the community in Lanarkshire
Staffordshire Remembers campaign
Sue Ball writes about the artist led project in Staffordshire libraries, which commemorates not only those who fought and died during World War 1 but also the women whose domestic, everyday lives contributed to fighting the war on the home-front.
CodeUp Chester
Coding for adults is a growing area for libraries - and Liam Cookson writes about the Codeup branch he set up in Storyhouse, Chester.
How Creative United’s Prosper programme has boosted enterprise for libraries
Sarah Thirtle shares an update on the Prosper business support programme and describes how libraries engaged with it
Summer Reading Challenge - getting more children reading
The Reading Agency's Sue Wilkinson reminds us how libraries play a vital role in encouraging children to read
Contribution libraries make to early years
A collection of references to material which illustrate how libraries support children when they are very young - a vital stage in their learning: preparation for school
With a little help from my friends: the vital contribution made by Friends Groups
Examples of the work done by Library Friends groups, around the country
Your library, your work club and The Great Project
Work clubs in Leicestershire libraries, illustrating how libraries contribute to the outcome: greater prosperity
Encounters: Whitby Library
How Whitby library took part in the Cook 250 anniversary celebrations