National Libraries Day
What will you be doing on February 4 2012?
Get involved
We've got lots of ideas for how you can get involved from organising your own library event to simply visiting your local library on the day and finding out more about what they offer. We'll be adding more information to these pages as we get closer to February 4. Library Events Map Use the library events map to find out what libraries in your area are doing to celebrate National Libraries Day. Simply click on our Google Map to see what’s happening at a library near you. Alternatively, why not organise your own National Libraries Day event and add it to the map. ...
National Libraries Day launched
A national day to celebrate libraries has been launched today. National Libraries Day will take place in early February 2012. It will be the finale to a week of events that will celebrate libraries and librarians, and highlight the importance of reading. Children’s author and libraries campaigner Alan Gibbons announced the launch: "We are delighted to launch National Libraries Day, a week of events in early February leading to a day of celebration of reading, libraries and librarians around the United Kingdom. A reading child is a successful child. A child who goes to the library is twice as likely to be ...
National Libraries Day 4 Feb 2012 – Save the date
What is it? National Libraries Day is one day devoted to all libraries - public libraries, school and university libraries, prison, national, law, business and commercial libraries. A nation-wide celebration of libraries, librarians and library staff in all sectors. [caption id="attachment_128" align="alignright" width="222" caption="National Libraries Day - save the date"][/caption] In 2012 the day will be 4th February. Objectives National Libraries Day will highlight what people can do in their local library. Events will take place in libraries, and a membership campaign will lead up to the date. During the week before National Libraries Day events and activities will take place in a variety of ...
National Libraries Day is devoted to all types of libraries, library users, staff and supporters across the UK. Join in by organising a celebratory event, contributing to our forums, tweeting with the #NLD12 hashtag and visiting your local library on the 4 February or the week leading up to it. How will you get involved?
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- 4th February 2012:
Library Poem by Julia Donaldson: Julia Donaldson, Waterstones Children’s Laureate, has written a dedicated poem to celebrate National Libraries Day.
Everyone is welcome to walk through the door.
It really doesn’t matter... - 1st February 2012: Welsh Heritage Minister gives his support for National Libraries Day: Huw Lewis AM, Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage, has been presented with hundreds of ‘Love your Library’ postcards from Welsh Women’s Institutes. The postcards...
- 1st February 2012: Put Your Library on the Map this weekend: Smartphone users up and down the country are being encouraged to celebrate UK public libraries by ‘putting their library on the map’ this weekend.
‘Put Your...
- 31st January 2012: Society of Chief Librarians Supports National Libraries Day: The Society of Chief Librarians is the local government organisation working to develop public libraries and promote their value and contribution.
SCL is not a campaigning...
- 27th January 2012:
Profile to publish The Library Book In aid of The Reading Agency’s library programmes: In The Library Book, published for National Libraries Day on 4 February, twenty-three of our most outstanding writers describe libraries real or imagined, past, present,...
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