Library services
Guidance and regulation
- Libraries as a statutory service
- Community managed libraries: good practice toolkit
- Libraries and makerspaces
- Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
- Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
News and communications
- Final decision letter on public library provision in Bedford
- 'Minded to' letter on public library provision in Bedford
- Final decision letter on public library provision in Southampton following withdrawal of complaint
- The Secretary of State has approved the appointment of Venki Ramakrishnan as a Board Member of the British Library.
- Final decision letter on public library provision in Swindon
Research and statistics
- Ad hoc statistical analysis: 2020/21 Quarter 4
- DCMS Official Statistics Release Calendar
- DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2019: Trade in services
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – Statistics at DCMS
- DCMS Sector Economic Estimates: Employment Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on a Technical Variation to the Public Lending Right Scheme
- Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2019 to 2020 consultation
- Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2018 to 2019 consultation
- Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2017 to 2018 consultation
- Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from January 2017 to March 2018
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020
- Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from April 2019 to March 2020
- Twenty-sixth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
- Libraries Taskforce: six-monthly progress report (April to September 2019)
- Twenty-fifth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce