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Libraries’ Universal Reading Offer. Reading is changing. 23% of 9-16 year olds now prefer reading electronically E-books account for 14% of publishers’ sales Summer Reading Challenge website had 312,000 visits, +60% on 2012. Libraries are changing. New challenges, new strategy.
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Reading is changing • 23% of 9-16 year olds now prefer reading electronically • E-books account for 14% of publishers’ sales • Summer Reading Challenge website had 312,000 visits, +60% on 2012
New challenges, new strategy “We must think about the future. Let’s not implement cuts in a way that ends up with a uniformly grey, dull offer to the public, without any real social impact. We must hang on to the sparkle in the new look reading service we’re creating. There is a huge public demand for our reading groups, author events, rhyme times, reading challenges, festivals. The URO helps focus our collective energy on a few really big things to keep the sparkle going” Tony Durcan, Society of Chief Librarians
Vision • Reading for pleasure enhances people’s literacy, life chances and quality of life. It is vital for our prosperity • Libraries aim to be a force for social change through reading. They bring people recreation and pleasure, learning and literacy, health and wellbeing • Libraries will work collectively to develop their contribution to everybody’s reading life • Libraries will develop as hubs drawing communities together to bring reading alive, physically and digitally • Libraries will work with the public to co-deliver reading
The offer • Social reading activity • Author events/performances • Reading challenges • Public involvement/co-production • Online reading, activities • Accessibility services
Prioritised shared toolbox to deliver baseline offer to public • Chart shows how different strands in the strategy work together to create a shared offer across the library network. • The five prioritised calendar spikes have emerged from consultation process – five focal points in year for a shared library network push on reading • There will be an additional enhanced menu of activities, capturing other nationally brokered programmes used by under 60% of authorities, and additional calendar spikes e.g. literary prizes
How to use it • Local service visioning, planning, advocacy • Basis for regional reader development plans • Enhance local offer by linking to national developments – e.g. publisher resources linked to WW1 http://readingagency.org.uk/about/libraries.html
Summer Reading Challenge Next steps: • GFtA bids • Get into school improvement plans
Youth innovation Next step: Cabinet Office funding to grow Summer Reading Challenge volunteering
Digital • Next step: • Exploit publishers’ resources at www.readinggroups.org