Public Libraries are amazing! They can anticipate and respond to the changing needs of their communities, and they are great partnership builders – reaching out to organisations with complimentary agendas and working together. All of which means that it can be tricky to encapsulate in a few words what the public library service does.
The Universal Library Offers2 launched
in 2013 and were reviewed in 2019. They provide a clear framework that expresses the role of libraries both locally and nationally.
There are four Universal Library Offers:
➜ Culture and Creativity ➜ Information and Digital ➜ Health and Wellbeing ➜ Reading