Library services

Guidance and regulation

Libraries and makerspaces
Guidance
15 October 2018
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
Guidance
28 March 2017
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
DCMS Business Plan 2012-2015
Guidance
8 July 2011
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Community managed libraries: good practice toolkit
- Guidance
- 5 June 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
- Guidance
- 28 March 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

26 October 2017Speech

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Karen Bradley welcomes DCMS Ministers
- 15 June 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
- News story
Letter from Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson, stating a "minded to" decision on public library provision in Lancashire
- 11 April 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Correspondence
Letter from Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson: Swindon library service provision changes
- 11 April 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Correspondence
Innovation fund to support 30 libraries across England
- 22 March 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Press release

Taking Part 2017/18: annual child release
- 30 August 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- National statistics
Taking Part 2017/18: quarter 4 statistical release
- 30 August 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- National statistics
Analysing data: CIPFA statistics and the future of England's libraries
- 16 August 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Research
Taking Part survey: Ad-hoc statistical releases
- 26 July 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Statistical data set
Research and analysis to explore the service effectiveness and sustainability of community managed libraries in England
- 5 September 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Research

Public Lending Right (PLR) Rate Per Loan Consultation for payments in relation to the 2017/18 public lending right scheme year 1 October 2018
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Open consultation

Closing date 29 October 2019
Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme 7 June 2018
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Consultation outcome

Date closed 24 May 2018
Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from January 2017 to March 2018
- 9 October 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Policy paper
Community managed libraries: Mitcheldean library, Gloucestershire, South West
- 5 September 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Case study
Community managed libraries: Alford library, Lincolnshire, East Midlands
- 5 September 2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Case study

Libraries Taskforce: six month progress report (April to September 2018)
- 10 October 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report
Twenty-first meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
- 4 October 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report
Libraries Deliver newsletter
- 1 October 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report
Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021
- 28 September 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report
British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2017 to 2018
- 26 July 2018
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Corporate report