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Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk

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Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk CILIP is the leading industry voice championing and representing library and information professionals across the United Kingdom, guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services, and as a Charity to act in the public good.

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Trends in the library technology market ? a UK perspective

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Trends in the library technology market ? Ken Chad looks at the underlying issues and trends that are shaping library technology. His piece focuses on public libraries and libraries in higher education institutions. In public libraries the LMS is no longer the central piece of library technology it was.

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CILIP CEO Nick Poole joins Samira Ahmed in candid discussion on funding for libraries

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CILIP CEO Nick Poole joins Samira Ahmed in candid discussion on funding for libraries Nick Poole, CILIP CEO, was on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row on 28 Mar 2023 and talked to Samira Ahmed about library funding in the UK. Libraries, after all, have been levelling up since the 1850s. million allocated to 27 projects.

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Dominic Cummings: Libraries are "desperately needed"

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Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately DURING the 2019 General Election Boris Johnson said he loved libraries and wanted to invest in opening more of them, but added: ?We His special adviser, Dominic Cummings, has no such conditions attached to his support for libraries.

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Making Access Happen through the Digital Public Library of America

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It is clear that collaboration is the path to the future, and nowhere is this more apparent than through the efforts of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to connect people to our nation’s shared history. In October 2010, I was in the meeting room at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study when DPLA was born.

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn: 100 days at CILIP

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What is clear is that many people really do love libraries and librarians, just look at all the celebrities – especially among the author community – who come out in vocal support. We quickly developed the Trust Libraries election campaign to highlight 10 agendas the sector is already delivering, and what we need to achieve even more.