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Setting our goals

Taskforce action plan to March 2020

Setting our goals

Kim Bromley-Derry sets out the Taskforce goals for 2018 and beyond

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From Chester to Newcastle - Arts in Libraries are being embraced in the North

Posted by: Owen Hutchings, Posted on: 16 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
Family arts session in Newcastle. Photo credit: Newcastle library

Examples of innovative events, performances, exhibitions and participatory arts interventions taking place in libraries across the North, shared during Arts In Libraries networking sessions

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Arts Council England consultation: opportunities for libraries

Posted by: Anthony Hopkins, Posted on: 15 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture, Taskforce
Children engage with Joseph Coelho's Tree Child on the Spark Arts tour. Photo credit: Pamela Raith Photography / The Spark Arts

As Arts Council England work on their strategy covering the next 10 years, Anthony Hopkins encourages library services to get involved and respond to the call for evidence.

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Integrated communities green paper

Posted by: Sheila Bennett, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: Outcome: communities
Ipswich county library multicultural day - standing together.

New government green paper: what it says about libraries, and how library workers can contribute to the consultation

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Dionne Hood: PPC Librarian of the Year

Posted by: Dionne Hood, Posted on: 13 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Library workforce
Poetry filming in Bradford. Photo credit: Dionne Hood/Bradford libraries

Dionne writes about her work in Bradford libraries

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A ‘Flourishing’ library - in Mowbray Gardens, Rotherham

Posted by: Chris Gaynor and Alnaar Clayton, Posted on: 12 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: communities
Artwork created during the Butterfly project.

Fascinating and diverse range of community projects taking place in a library in Rotherham

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Lunch at the library - an update

Posted by: Mandy Macdonald, Posted on: 9 March 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: culture, Outcome: learning
Looking down on children having Lunch at the library.

An update on the LOFE funded project that ran in Plymouth libraries

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Islington’s reading champion: an interview with Councillor Raphael Andrews

Posted by: Tony Brown, Posted on: 28 February 2018 - Categories: Library news, Outcome: literacy

At the start of Islington Reads week 2018, and the launch of their 2018:Year of Reading programme, Tony Brown talked to their reading champion.

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British Standards Online

Posted by: Deborah Brown, Posted on: 26 February 2018 - Categories: Digital
Screenshot of the BSOL homepage

Deborah Brown from the British Standards Institute writes about their new offer for libraries.

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Immersive, age appropriate, sensory story times

Posted by: Helen Green, Posted on: 23 February 2018 - Categories: Outcome: culture
Staff training session. Photo credit: Helen Green/Bradford libraries

Helen Green writes about Bradford libraries' Libraries: Opportunities for Everyone project

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Regulations on the re-use of public sector information

Posted by: Howard Davies, Posted on: 22 February 2018 - Categories: Good practice
screenshot of the statutory instrument

The National Archives' Howard Davies shares guidance which sets out clearly what libraries should do to comply

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What do people want from public libraries in the 21st century? The Taskforce was set up to enable libraries in England to exploit their potential and be recognised as a vital resource for all. On this blog, members of the Taskforce talk about their work. Find out more

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