School Libraries and the UK Government

Posted by SLA Website Editor on 15 Feb 2010 at 16:58

There has been a lot of activity going on behind the scenes recently - which has all culminated in a major rebuttal of the government's position on school libraries and trained people running them. European colleagues have forwarded a joint letter to Gordon Brown today - this is signed by SLA as well as IFLA School Libraries and Resource Centers section, International Association of School Librarianship, CILIP Information Literacy group and co-ordinated through European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy (ENSIL). The letter can be seen on the ENSIL website.

CILIP have also issued a letter to the PM from the President Biddy Fisher on the government's response to the E Petition to make school libraries statutory - you can see their Press Release and also the full text. All this at the same time as SLA has released its Primary School Library Charter - a huge wave of different and complementary organisations underlining the importance of school libraries and librarians. With all this activity one can only hope that government will start to listen and act to the benefit of all our schools and pupils.

School Libraries and the UK Government

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