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Two of the offers: Reading and Health and Wellbeing are delivered in partnership with The Reading Agency.3
two ‘Promises’:
➜ The Children’s and Young People’s Promise4
(delivered by ASCEL, The
Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians5
).
➜ The Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise6
(delivered in partnership with Share the Vision).
The offers set out the expectations that the community should have of our public libraries. They also allow library staff to succinctly articulate the work of the library service. The offers are both a strategic tool and a mechanism for creating practical activities.
The Universal Library Offer Framework is not just a local tool, it is also used nationally. Each offer has a national group which is ‘led’ by a Head of Library Service or senior leader with library representatives from the regions and home nations. They meet across the year to plan how the offer can support library services, by developing and testing innovative ideas, building national partnerships, developing training and harnessing sector expertise to generate toolkits and support materials. In recent years, through the Universal Library Offers, Libraries Connected have: created online training modules for digital media literacy and programming events. They have worked on the development of the Reading Well Collections7
The offers can be used by libraries:
The Offers work alongside
To plan the library year and the events and activities that will be promoted. Libraries Connected produce an annual calendar of suggested events and local libraries include their own too.
To look at local services and identifying potential for development.
To build local partnerships. For example, all local health partnership work can be badged under the Health and Wellbeing Offers.
For funding applications and proposals. For example, Arts Council’s National Lottery Project Grants welcome applications linked to one of more of the Universal Library Offers.
For advocacy, they are a straightforward way to explain the library service to council officers, directors and politicians.
Senior leadership in libraries may use them:
To set the strategic direction and demonstrate how the service will meet local outcomes.
To support structure design for the service.
To plan workforce development.
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