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Guidance and regulation
- Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
- Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
- DCMS Business Plan 2012-2015
- Libraries as a statutory service
- Libraries and makerspaces
News and communications
- John Glen's speech on the launch of the Society of Chief Librarian's Culture Offer
- Karen Bradley welcomes DCMS Ministers
- Letter from Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson, stating a "minded to" decision on public library provision in Lancashire
- Letter from Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson: Swindon library service provision changes
Research and statistics
- Taking Part November 2018 "Focus On..." reports
- Charitable Giving Indicators 2017/18
- Taking Part 2017/18: annual child release
- Taking Part 2017/18: quarter 4 statistical release
- Analysing data: CIPFA statistics and the future of England's libraries
Policy papers and consultations
- Public Lending Right (PLR) Rate Per Loan Consultation for payments in relation to the 2017/18 public lending right scheme year
- Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme
- Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from January 2017 to March 2018
- Community managed libraries: Mitcheldean library, Gloucestershire, South West
- Community managed libraries: Alford library, Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Libraries Deliver newsletter
- Libraries Taskforce: six month progress report (April to September 2018)
- Twenty-first meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
- Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021
- British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2017 to 2018