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Work with adult learners
Do you work with adults who want to improve their reading and writing skills? The Vital Link is the national programme which aims to reach out to adult literacy learners and emergent readers (the term for those who can read but have yet to build their reading stamina and experience). We run The Vital Link in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.
Six Book Challenge in association with Costa Coffee
We are running an annual challenge - the Six Book Challenge in association with Costa Coffee. The Challenge to libraries is to build stronger relationships with adult literacy practitioners. The Challenge to adult literacy learners is to read six books. The Challenge to us is to make sure that every library and adult literacy practitioner has the support they need to make this happen.
Reading Partners
Reading Partners brings publishers and libraries together to create exciting events and activities for readers. The programme is going from strength to strength and publishers are building libraries into their marketing planning in new and exciting ways.
Reading groups database
Reading is becoming a fantastic way to meet people. In recent years hundreds of reading groups organised through libraries have sprung up around the country and more are being set up all the time. We hold the national database of reading groups that allows you to find a group near you.
Orange Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates women's writing. It is awarded annually for the best full-length novel by a female author published in the UK that year. It has become one of the most prestigious awards in the literary calendar and we have been involved since 2000.
East Midlands Regional Reading Group Network
We have teamed up with a number of partners to test the ideas set out in the government's Framework for the Future strategy for developing public libraries. Nine library services in the East Midlands are trying out some new ideas for reading groups in libraries. We started in 2005 and we will finish in June 2008 after which we will produce a full evaluation of our findings.
Big Book Share
Prison punishes families as well as offenders. It can take away the vital role of a parent, often a father, in the formative years of his children’s life. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.
BBC RaW
RaW (Read and Write) is the biggest campaign ever run by the BBC to help adults read and write better. Did you know that there are 12 million adults in the UK who struggle with reading and writing? RaW is for all of them.
BBC Partnership
We have a great partnership with BBC Radio 4 and BBC7 both of which broadcast programmes on books and book related matters. The rich resources of these programmes are used by reading groups for adults and children run in libraries. And we are using this partnership to bring radio and libraries together to run joint activities. We believe that combining the powers of the written word with the spoken word will lead to creative opportunities.