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
Guidance on the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013
- Guidance
- 5 April 2013
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Taking Part Privacy Notice
- Detailed guide
- 4 December 2018
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
- Guidance
- 28 March 2017
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Library book loan payment scheme updated to benefit authors
- 10 October 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and British Library
- Press release
'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

Economic Estimates: Employment in DCMS sectors and digital sector, April 2022 to March 2023
- 25 October 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- National statistics
Participation in core library activities in Northern Ireland 2022/23
- 12 October 2023
- Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Participation Survey 2022–23 annual publication
- 27 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

Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2022 to 2023 consultation
- 23 October 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 17 November 2023
Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme: 2023
- 6 October 2023
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Consultation outcome
- 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

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