Library services

Guidance and regulation

Public libraries support and resources
- Detailed guide
- 11 August 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Libraries as a statutory service
- Guidance
- 1 April 2022
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
DCMS business plan
- Guidance
- 6 July 2012
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Community managed libraries: good practice toolkit
- Guidance
- 5 June 2018
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Libraries and makerspaces
- Guidance
- 4 October 2019
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

'Minded to' letter on public library provision in Calderdale
- 7 September 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Correspondence
Three Board Members reappointed to the British Library
- 6 September 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and British Library
- News story
Authors to benefit from updated library book loan payment scheme
- 28 June 2023
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
- News story
Redeveloping Dumbarton town centre with £19.9 million funding
- 17 January 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Case study
Baroness Sanderson to help develop new public libraries strategy
- 2 September 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Press release

Participation Survey 2022–23 annual publication
- 7 September 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Official statistics
Economic Estimates: Employment in DCMS sectors and Digital sector, January 2022 to December 2022.
- 28 July 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- National statistics
Economic Estimates: Earnings in DCMS sectors and Digital sector, January 2022 to December 2022.
- 28 July 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Official statistics
Participation Survey: October to December 2022 publication
- 20 July 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Official statistics
Participation Survey: July to September 2022 publication
- 20 July 2023
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Official statistics

Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme: 2023
- 28 June 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Open consultation
- Date closed 06 August 2023
Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2021 to 2022 consultation
- 21 October 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 18 November 2022
Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2020 to 2021 consultation
- 6 January 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 24 November 2021
Consultation on a Technical Variation to the Public Lending Right Scheme
- 10 June 2021
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 28 April 2021
Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2019 to 2020 consultation
- 1 December 2020
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 October 2020

British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
- 19 July 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and British Library
- Corporate report
Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from April 2022 to March 2023
- 17 July 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Corporate report
British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
- 20 July 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
- Corporate report
British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2020 to 2021
- 15 July 2021
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
- Corporate report
Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from April 2020 to March 2021
- 13 July 2021
- Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report