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Libraries Change Lives is an advocacy campaign capturing and celebrating the impact of libraries, putting the sector on a public platform where libraries, library staff and library users can showcase the value of their service - both locally and nationally.
Libraries Week: Libraries Change Lives
Libraries Week: Libraries Change Lives 2025, running from Monday 2 June to Sunday 8 June, celebrating the vital role libraries play in transforming lives and strengthening communities.
This year's theme, Libraries Week: Libraries Change Lives by sustaining economic growth highlights how library services can help to build a sustainable economy - whether that is through improving health outcomes in NHS; helping new businesses get off the ground; delivering support for users looking to get into work or education, or in accessing benefits; supporting people in education at schools, colleges and universities; or growing the economy directly by helping businesses make the right, evidence-based decisions.
Download and share resources and support the Libraries Change Lives campaign
Submit case studies from your library, institute or organisation demonstrating how information professionals and knowledge managers are at the heart of delivering economic growth for their local and national communities.
This can be via a range of activities - from delivering job and CV workshops, supporting students in schools, colleges, and universities; helping researchers in institutes and industry; to bolstering businesses of all shapes and sizes to thrive.
Help build a bank of case studies from across sectors, regionals and topics which underpin CILIP’s work to showcase the impact all types of libraries have to Government and policymakers.
Almost 200 stories of impact have already been shared by libraries across the UK and are featured on this interactive map.
Read the case studies below and share on social media using #LibrariesChangeLives.
Libraries Change Lives: Participatory storytelling raises children’s book borrowing in Staffordshire
Newcastle Under Lyme Library, Staffordshire, brought new energy to reading and literacy through participatory storytelling in a unique series of events in partnership with the New Vic Theatre.
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