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Guidance and regulation

  1. Libraries and makerspaces
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  2. Libraries: alternative delivery models toolkit
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  3. Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  4. Benchmarking Framework for library services
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  5. Community managed libraries: good practice toolkit
    • Guidance
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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News and communications

Press release

New £250 million Culture Investment Fund launched

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England, Historic England, and National Lottery Heritage Fund

  1. Final decision letter on public library provision in Barnet
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
  2. Final decision letter on public library provision in Lancashire
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
  3. Final decision letter on public library provision in Northamptonshire
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
  4. Final decision letter on public library provision in Darlington
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Taking Part survey: Ad-hoc statistical releases
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  2. Ad-hoc statistical analysis: October 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Statistical data set
  3. Taking Part 2018/19: annual child release
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • National statistics
  4. Technical report: Taking Part survey 2018 to 2019 (year 14)
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Research
  5. Taking Part 2018/19: statistical release
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • National statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Public Lending Right (PLR) Rate Per Loan Consultation for payments in relation to the 2017/18 public lending right scheme year
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 29 October 2019
  2. Consultation on technical amendments to the Public Lending Right Scheme
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 24 May 2018
  3. Public Lending Right (PLR) Consultation 2018
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 24 November 2017
  4. Annual Report to Parliament on public libraries activities from January 2017 to March 2018
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
  5. Libraries Taskforce communications sub-group: terms of reference
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Twenty-fifth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  2. Twenty-fourth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  3. British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2018 to 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and British Library
    • Corporate report
  4. Annual library report from April 2018 to March 2019
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
  5. Twenty-third meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Corporate report
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Organisations