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Libraries Change Lives: Sharing stories of impact
A General Election will be taking place within weeks and CILIP has been asking for your stories of positive impact from library services so that we can share them.
WITH the UK gearing up for a general election in July, CILIP has been work- ing to build and strengthen connections with politicians and decision makers so that they truly understand the impact and value that library and information professionals add to communities. A crucial part of that is sharing stories of success from across communities, which is why this summer sees a special Libraries Change Lives week taking place to help spread the word and make libraries part of the political conversation.
Libraries Change Lives week is a new event on the calendar for this year, giving infor- mation, library and knowledge management services an opportunity to demonstrate their impact beyond their immediate community. The idea is to give a platform for services to explain how they are improving lives and com- munities through their work.
CILIP’s live portal and map offers a small insight into the fantastic work that is being carried out by information professionals every day of every year. CILIP will use the stories that are added to the portal to demonstrate to MPs, the new government, and key stakehold- ers how services are already supporting policy aims across a variety of priorities – from health and wellbeing, education, skills and learning to levelling-up, economic sustainability and innovation.
Each and every story added to the portal will help to build an evidence base to strengthen the voice and advocacy for the profession. If
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Rob Green (
rob.green@
cilip.org.uk) is Editor of Information Professional
you haven’t already taken part, please add you own service and share your success stories. Libraries Change Lives Week takes place
from 24 to 28 June and will include a social media and press campaign encouraging librar- ies to let their local Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPC), the public, and local press know what great work goes on in libraries.
Kent County Council, Prison Libraries – Poet Laureate visit
Women inmates at a prison near Maidstone have seen first-hand the power of poetry, thanks to a visit from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. The visit was arranged as part of a wider reading initiative that goes far beyond improv- ing literacy levels. The Reading Group meets once a month and “brings together a group who wouldn’t necessarily find something in common, and creates a feeling of wellbeing,
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