The Future Libraries Programme, formed by a partnership between national and local government, and driven by councils themselves, aims to help the library service during the current challenging financial situation, with an ambition to ensure libraries play a central role for communities in the Big Society.
Delivering high quality and effective libraries in the next few years will be challenging. Marginal improvement and efficiency alone are insufficient to maintain and modernise the public’s library services. To avoid ad hoc closures and service reductions, we need to take a strategic approach and consider radically different solutions.
LGA Group and MLA are working together to support councils, especially where councils want to work in partnership; by introducing and brokering councils to work together and helping them to establish new delivery mechanisms to build economies of scale and sustainable critical mass.
Ten communities around the country had the chance to test drive the ambitious change programme.
Future Libraries. Change Options and How to Get There. (PDF 929KB)