Projects

Libraries and Learners in London  is a scheme which enables members of London's public libraries to have access to academic and specialist collections.

Find out about public libraries' reader development work, and in particular about London Libraries Recommend, a bi-annual reading promotion across the capital.

 Welcome to Your Library  is an initiative to enable public libraries to work with refugees and asylum seekers to improve quality and access to services.

The virtual public library catalogue What's in London's Libraries allows you to search each London borough's catalogue simultaneously, and also includes a database of all 395 branch libraries, their opening hours, contact details and special services.

LLDA are proud to support RED - Reading Educational Development operates by offering people who work in education of with young people a service that helps them to identify with young people and to understand the emerging global village we now live in.  RED offers books and suggested reading lists that package multicultural books within segments such as age, language, gender, interest, subject matter, themes, cultural and religious groups, and helps to make choosing books for different ethnic groups easier.

To help combat the literacy problems the UK faces, RED, together with the National Literacy Trust, are launching Star Reads 2007, a campaign that has been running successfully throughout 2006, having had celebrities such as Children's BBC presenter Reggie Yates, singer Keisha White and actor Aml Ameen featured on posters highlighting the importance of reading, in schools, hospitals, libraries and other government run agencies.  Check out www.starreads.org to see this year's star!

Opening the Doors: homeless people and libraries Improving access to reading, learning and information services for and with vulnerably housed people in public libraries, and ensuring that library services are available for homeless people in a way that is appropriate and meets the needs of service users, particularly those in priority need including young people who suffer particular disadvantage.  Click here for Opening the Doors project summary PDF 30KB.

Partnership for Patients is a unique collaboration between LLDA, the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council, the Department of Health, the Department for Food and Rural Affairs, the NHS and 10 public library authorities, led by Health Link, a social enterprise that campaigns for patient involvement.

The project seeks to open up choice in healthcare by giving people an additional route to make their online health appointment bookings via public libraries. Over six months, the Partnership is piloting this approach, which may form the basis of a national roll out if successful after it has been evaluated.

For more on the project, please see an overview in the librarians' professional journal Cilip Update, July 2007,

To find out more about Health Link, visit: www.health-link.org.uk

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