The National Literacy Trust and Walker Books have created a Literacy Toolkit for businesses to donate to primary schools and community groups. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The IDPF will now be absorbed into the W3C, the internet standards organization, which has created a number of working and community groups to oversee EPUB and digirtal publishing issues under the new combined structure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
National Poetry Day this year will see community groups come together for a "mass outbreak of verse" on Thursday 6th October, when railway stations, coffee shops, police forces, schoolchildren and scientists all rise to the challenge to “say it with a poem”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leicestershire county council is to transfer 26 libraries to community groups in order to help make £800,000 worth of savings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google isn’t done with its attempts at running a social network. On Tuesday, the company gave Google+ a redesign focused on people getting together around shared interests.When Google+ launched in 2011, it was designed as a competitor to Facebook, focused on connecting people with their friends... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google isn't done with its attempts at running a social network. On Tuesday, the company gave Google+ a redesign focused on people getting together around shared interests.When Google+ launched in 2011, it was designed as a competitor to Facebook, focused on connecting people with their friends... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liverpool city council is preparing to hand over five libraries to local community groups to run, according to the Liverpool Echo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shropshire County Council is looking at handing all but six of its 22 libraries to community groups, as it seeks to make savings of £1.3m to its library service. The local authority has revealed that it wants volunteer groups to step forwards at 16 libraries, while only six of the largest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Community groups are set to take over the running of at least seven of the 11 libraries earmarked for closure in Liverpool. Campaigners who have fought to keep the libraries open – including authors Cathy Cassidy and Alan Gibbons – have welcomed the news, but urged that more details on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Community groups in Nottinghamshire are being invited to come forward to discuss running... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than half of Sheffield's libraries could be closed, unless community groups come forward... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Community groups in West Yorkshire are banding together in an attempt to take over libraries... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 11:05 Over a fifth of North Yorkshire county council's library staff are set to lose their jobs as part of plans to hand branches over to community groups to run, according to a report in the Yorkshire Post. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 14:24 The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has added its voice to criticism of the report issued following the first year of the DCMS-backed Future Libraries programme. The report, "Future Libraries:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 08/08/2011 - 16:45 The Women's Institute has expressed "disappointment" with the newly published Future Libraries Programme, the government backed report that made recommendations like putting libraries in the hands of community groups. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 08/08/2011 - 09:57 Libraries in the hands of community groups, private sector funding and self-service borrowing points in shops and village halls are the way forward for the public library service, according to the report from the Future... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]