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SCL Northeast Challenge: Learn Something New in Your Library

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SCL Northeast Libraries are challenging people to learn something new in their libraries during the Northeast Festival of Learning.

North East Society of Chief Librarians chairman Mark Freeman said: "As part of the North East Festival ...

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SCL Responds to Library Modernisation Review Consultation

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On 1 December 2009, Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, published a consultation paper on the library modernisation review, entitled Empower, Inform, Enrich.

SCL Response to Empower, Inform, Enrich   The Society of Chief Librarians responds to the publication of Empower, Inform, Enrich, ...

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Libraries Inspire

York Library Lends Smart Meters

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Innovative new collection sees York Libraries helping customers through the recession.

Around Christmas 2008, York Libraries purchased a collection of recession-beating “Smart Meters”, to help customers calculate how much energy their appliances were using. The response from the public was overwhelming, with people coming into the library to join up especially to use the Smart Meters. One of these ...

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Pushing Boundaries

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Libraries help people access information about their health

Public libraries offer access to free information about anything you more...

High Speed Broadband in Libraries

This week the MLA announced that public libraries can now more...