School Library Association appoints new leader
VICTORIA DILLY has been appointed CEO of the School Library Association (SLA). Dilly has worked in the education sector for almost…
VICTORIA DILLY has been appointed CEO of the School Library Association (SLA). Dilly has worked in the education sector for almost…
Two poetry charities have joined forces following discussions with Arts Council England (ACE) in what is the first merger of two m…
What happens to a library’s capacity for creative expression and innovation when knowledge is shared among nine services? asks T…
An Arts Council England-funded literary agency set up to increase diversity in the publishing industry is to close at the end of M…
A Newcastle-based creative centre for writing and publishing will receive £5m funding from the Department for Culture Media and S…
The director and chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) have both resigned. Director MOLLY ROSENBERG announced she will st…
A new programme designed to transform the way communities interact with digital creativity will launch this year, it has been anno…
A Liverpool library and community hub forced to close after being vandalised during the summer has reopened following an outpourin…
Almost 90% of young people from marginalised groups felt more welcome in libraries after co-creating projects with them, new resea…
Promoting libraries as social spaces could help overcome access barriers, a new report finds. Carried out on behalf of the Departm…
Arts Council England (ACE) has confirmed further funding for the next stage of the Reflecting Disability project. The project, led…
The British Library has unveiled a solar heat project to help maintain the temperature and humidity conditions needed to preserve…
Arts Council England pledges to develop a 'compelling case to government' around the value of independent bookshops to cul…
The Library Campaign has submitted a formal complaint to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) against London Borough…
Local authority spending on public libraries fell by 47% in real terms between 2009/10 and 2022/23.
More than 180 council-run libraries in the UK have either closed or been handed to volunteer groups in the past eight years.
Scottish venue which opened in 2019 in the building which helped inspire author JM Barrie to write Peter Pan has been losing money…
The Chief Executive of the Scottish Book Trust has been called on to apologise after describing two gender-critical authors a…
Professional boxer and former Young Birmingham Poet Laureate Matt Windle has been working with a group of ‘hard-to-reach&rsq…
Glasgow book festival Aye Write, which was cancelled last month after Creative Scotland turned down its funding application, has r…
A crowdfunding appeal to buy and deliver a mobile library to Ukraine has been launched by the charity representing public librarie…
Plans to switch library provision in Birmingham to a mixture of council and community-run hubs to save money have been put out for…
Two literary festivals in Glasgow have been cancelled after a funding application to Creative Scotland was unsuccessful. Glasgow L…
Organisations interested in running 10 community libraries in Derby have been given a month to register their interest. Following…