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Libraries Connected: new name, new team, expanded mission

Posted by: Isobel Hunter, Posted on: 30 August 2018 - Categories: Library news
Picture of 2 men smiling - Mark Freeman (left) and Neil Macinnes (right).

Isobel Hunter, chief executive of Libraries Connected writes about changes to the organisation and their new role as Sector Support Organisation. Last in the series to introduce the new members of the ACE national portfolio.

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Arts for children and young people in Nottinghamshire

Posted by: Peter Gaw, Posted on: 22 August 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
Banners advertising two of the programmes running in Year 1: the Big Draw, and Adventures in Music

Peter Gaw writes about the NPO programme in Nottinghamshire, presented by Inspire

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Art and Culture ‘Made in the Library’

Posted by: Daniel Clark, Posted on: 2 July 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
A performance of The Little Match Girl, in Ilfracombe library. Photo credit: Libraries Unlimited

Libraries Unlimited’s Daniel Clark writes about their NPO programme - another in our series to introduce the 6 library services in the Arts Council England portfolio

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Music, arts and performance in St Helens libraries

Posted by: Kathryn Boothroyd, Posted on: 1 July 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
Mark Titchner artwork featured at Eccleston Library. Photo credit: St Helens libraries

Kathryn Boothroyd writes about the NPO programme planned in St Helens libraries

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Barking and Dagenham libraries: a new NPO, and hosting the Libraries Taskforce

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 26 June 2018 - Categories: Outcome: communities, Outcome: culture, Outcome: literacy, Taskforce

The 20th meeting of the Libraries Taskforce, plus LBBD and Pen to Print - another Arts Council NPO programme

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Cambridgeshire Culture and Community Service: The Library Presents

Posted by: Joanne Gray, Posted on: 25 June 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
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The third in our series introducing the new library National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) - Joanne Gray, describes Cambridgeshire libraries' programme

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Suffolk libraries - focussing on young people

Posted by: Krystal Vittles, Posted on: 15 June 2018 - Categories: Library news
Library staff working with young people in the Sybil Andrews Academy.

Following the introduction from Arts Council England about their NPO programme, Suffolk libraries share their plans

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Introducing the new Director of Libraries and the National Portfolio programme

Posted by: Sue Williamson, Posted on: 4 June 2018 - Categories: Library news
Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation, Loud in Libraries Photo credit: © Andy Von Pip

Sue Williamson looks forward to her new role, and writes about the Arts Council's National Portfolio, and the new library NPOs

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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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