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2011 News
National Survey of School Libraries
Thanks to all of you for taking part in this survey. The report has now been published.
School libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed future?
Its publication was launched on Tuesday 20 July at the House of Commons when the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP acted as host at a celebratory reception.
Read the press release and reports:
For more information about this report, visit the School libraries in the UK page.
CILIP calls on PM Gordon Brown to make school libraries statutory
CILIP's President Biddy Fisher has called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to exercise national leadership by demanding that school libraries with qualified librarians should be made a statutory duty. This initiative follows widespread dissatisfaction among CILIP’s members with the negative response made to an online petition on the Number 10 website calling for this statutory provision.
This follows SLG's invitation to the Education Spokespersons of the three main political parties to hold a national seminar on the role of school libraries and investigate whether they should be made statutory.
Message from SLG Chair, Rebecca Hemming:
"SLG is very disappointed that the government is not giving stronger leadership in the matter of school library provision. When schools, many in the independent sector, are adopting the international baccalaureate (which recognises and promotes the role of the school librarian as a basic requirement) it is hard to understand how the government finds it acceptable that pupils in the state sector are not being given equal access to expert support and resources."