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Happy Christmas to all our customers and partners. Thanks for your custom and support over 2024. Here's looking ahead to a fabulous 2025 - we'll be with you all the way!
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We shine solidarity, hope and joy as #Spellow Library prepares to reopen.
Libraries in Barnsley and across the nation are places of sanctuary, knowledge and community.
Barnsley's fierce love holds you forever in its heart.
#SharetheLight #Libraries
@CultureLPool @lpoolcouncil
ALT A photograph of the outside of Library @ the Lightbox, illuminated with lights that read 'Barnsley's Fierce Love Holds You Forever In Its Heart' and an illuminated love heart.
Spellow Lane Library looking splendid after all the hard work to repair and reopen❤️
Around 135 libraries throughout the country are celebrating the reopening of Spellow Lane Library in Liverpool months after it was damaged by rioters👇 thebookseller.com/news/spell…
Lorensbergs retweeted
Terrific to see so many #Libraries lit up last night in support of #Spellow.
We're lighting up some of our libraries tonight as a symbol of solidarity and hope to mark the re-opening of Spellow Library and Community Hub in Liverpool, which was torched during the summer's violent disorder.
#ShareTheLight #SpellowLibrary
ALT A series of lanterns in the dark
ALT A white tree in a window with fairy lights in it
New social media template materials are now available to use for customer libraries to publicise their free PC sessions. Simply add your booking URL address and logo! Contact your Netloan account manager for further details...
Netloan customer libraries, time to book your place on a user group this autumn. Groups taking place 28 Nov and 3 Dec - please see our recent email invitation or contact your Netloan account manager for further details.
Brilliant initiative from @SurreyLibraries
Our Digital Welfare Support Officers will be at libraries during Nov & Dec to introduce & help you get signed-up to online tools that can help you save money on your energy bills & stay well this winter. Find where they'll be & when 👉 ow.ly/y2g350U2guh #WarmWelcome
Libraries - in every town and so many of our high streets - remind us that sustainability is a daily commitment, not a distant goal. They encourage us to think, act, and live sustainably one page, visit and event at a time.
Visit a library this week: #GreenLibrariesWeek
So much to highlight and celebrate with these awards! As providers of Netloan PC booking software, we see every day just how much libraries do to support their communities with digital inclusion and skills development. Get nominating and enjoy the recognition this can bring!
The 2025 Libraries Connected Awards are now open for nominations! We want to celebrate the achievements of public #Library staff and uncover new library champions and leaders. librariesconnected.org.uk/ne…
ALT A female librarian helps a female customer with an exercise on a laptop.
Counting down to Ireland's National Public Libraries Day this Saturday. Wishing our library customers all the best with their plans for this important day @kildarelibrary @kilkennylibrary #NationalPublicLibrariesDay
In Kensington for London Libraries @LDNLibraries Stronger Together Conference #LDNLibraries24. Hearing great feedback on sessions attended including @ace__london Building stakeholder relationships - what librarians are up and against. And @RNIB assistive tech session v useful!
Great piece on the importance of librarians and libraries: "“I’ve seen these guys help people who don’t speak English print off a form for a visa and take them through the whole process. Then they’ll patiently help someone who’s homeless." theguardian.com/books/articl…
Lorensbergs retweeted
Let’s place libraries at the centre of our communities, to inspire lifelong learning, support health and wellbeing and enrich our economic and cultural lives.
Libraries organisations argue that they are perfectly placed to help the new government deliver on its five main missions—if they are funded properly 👇 thebookseller.com/features/g…
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
More deprived communities were 4x more likely to have lost a publicly-funded library. Thanks to all who spoke to us for this piece a few days ago - incl @MichaelRosenYes @libsconnected @CILIPinfo @LibrariesUnLtd and lots of library users and librarians.
Lorensbergs retweeted
The @guardian view on public libraries: "For all their benefits, funding for libraries is never a priority, trumped by the more urgent demands of healthcare and schools. And yet, properly resourced, they can help alleviate the pressures on both." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Good to see the spotlight on public libraries this morning on BBC News. So important to keep supporting and funding these vital spaces: "The team here ready to give IT support, ready to help fill out benefit forms, blue badges, you name it, they do it!" #libraries
Lorensbergs retweeted
Public #Libraries play a crucial role in supporting and widening access to the creative industries, our new briefing reveals. We call on the #Government to include public libraries within its Creating Growth strategy. librariesconnected.org.uk/ne…
ALT The facade of Library@theLightbox, Barnsley. Credit: Barnsley Council.
Exciting to see the growing opportunities for learning multimedia skills in libraries. From South Lanarkshire:
bit.ly/3Alf3iJ
To the range of examples and projects going on in US public libraries, from podcasting to full recording studios:
bit.ly/3AmGGb4
Lorensbergs retweeted
Applications are now open for the first round of our #ACEFunded Microgrants Programme. Open to all public #Libraries in England, these grants will support small-scale activities or the early stages of larger initiatives. librariesconnected.org.uk/mi…
ALT A group of people including adults and children gather around a craft activity.
Excited to see this article in Computers in Libraries after looking at podcasting opportunities in UK libraries. There's lots going on and some great examples: infotoday.com/cilmag/jul24/K…
