Category Archives: Strategies
This is some of what libraries do – universal offers
On Thursday 31 January 2013, a set of ‘universal offers’ were launched in London jointly by the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL), the Arts Council England (ACE), and the Reading Agency (TRA). They are based around four themes (health, information, … Continue reading
Changing cultures: addressing child poverty
On Tuesday 5th February the Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage, Huw Lewis AM, made an oral statement in the Senedd on “Making a difference: the role of museums, archives and libraries in tackling child poverty”. He also took questions … Continue reading
Living in a digital world
(And I am a digital girl – well, sort of.*) Whilst we haven’t yet become cyborgs, the governments of Great Britain (ie England**, Scotland and Wales) are all trying to encourage a ‘digital shift’ through their own digital strategies. A … Continue reading
Digital by default and libraries
Some people may be aware of the UK (Westminster) government beginning to implement a ‘digital by default’ policy. This was presented in the 2010 report by Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion and now the government has set out what the … Continue reading
Libraries Inspire delivery plan 2012-13
Libraries Inspire is the new strategy for libraries in Wales and will run from 2012-16. The strategy document sets out the broad areas of activities, but each year a more detailed delivery plan will be published which outlines specific actions … Continue reading
(Almost) everything you need to know about Libraries Inspire
I have produced a brief introduction to Libraries Inspire as a separate page of this blog – see the menu tab above or click here. Hopefully it will answer any questions you have about Libraries Inspire, but if you do … Continue reading
Libraries Inspire is launched
Although some people may view a launch of a government strategy as possibly a bit dull, the library staff at Rhondda Cynon Taf’s Treorchy library did an absolutely fantastic job in creating a lively and interesting event for the launch … Continue reading
Your guide to several L words
Because there’s lots of library projects, programmes and events going on in Wales at the moment it can be a bit confusing with all the different names of things to know what it what, how to take part, and who’s … Continue reading
Evaluation of Libraries for Life
After a 16-month research process, the independent evaluation of the Welsh libraries strategy has been published. Back in winter 2009 CyMAL commissioned Scotinform to fully evaluate the Libraries for Life strategy. Libraries for Life ran from 2008-11 with a record … Continue reading
Welsh library strategy update
The consultation on Libraries Inspire received over 45 responses (thanks everyone who responded). I’m now working with colleagues on analysing the responses and producing a document that summarises the responses and which will be publicly available. We’re also taking the … Continue reading
