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As Week 2026 draws to a close, we hear from Marianna Volioti, Edge Grove School Librarian, about how the school’s library is embracing this year’s theme of Reading and Literacy

At Edge Grove School in Hertfordshire, three libraries serve a wonderfully multicultural community of children from Nursery to Year 8 – a vibrant mix of ethnicities, backgrounds and abilities that each library reflects and celebrates. https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/728631/Libraries-Change-Lives-Edge-Grove-School.htm

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and fortnight are overlapping this year and these are just two pieces of feedback we've had from our customers who access our Talking Newspaper service about the lifeline it provides.

The Shetland Times weekly paper is recorded by volunteers, copied and and sent out by Library Staff to homes around Shetland, to those who cannot access the print version of the paper.

You'll see a bit more about this part of our service in tomorrow's posts.

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Week is a celebration for every sector. From school libraries nurturing young readers to health libraries providing vital evidence for clinicians. Whatever your collection or community- take part and share your stories and events: https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-change-lives

A Salford school used an AI-generated list to ban 200 books, overriding their own librarian’s expertise. Many were LGBTQ+ titles. This tactic mirrors US campaigns using automated bias to censor LGBTQ+ stories. Read our article: https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/728340/Book-bans-mirror-US-campaigns-.htm

When did you last visit your local library?
Week is our chance to connect communities with everything libraries offer - knowledge, creativity, warmth and so much more.

Find your nearest library and pay it a visit this week. https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-change-lives

Read how in week, library apprenticeships change lives! Read Jack's apprenticeship story here: https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/CILIPPathwaysnews

From our Supplier Partner - Celebrating One Year of MyPC Cloud!

Just over a year ago, ITS: Info Technology Supply Ltd. launched the fully cloud-based version of their leading computer booking solution, MyPC, and what an incredible journey it’s been!

Since its launch, MyPC Cloud has helped organisations transform the way they work by simplifying access to rooms and desks, and modernising computer booking enabling more flexible, future-ready workplaces.

Here’s to a year of innovation and many more to come!

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✨It’s Libraries Change Lives Week 2026! ✨

📅 Monday 1 June – Sunday 7 June

Libraries Week was envisaged as a welcome opportunity to celebrate our sector. Today, it is something even more critical: a platform for the entire library community to demonstrate our value, tell our stories and make the case for sustained investment and recognition.

The 2026 theme in the National Year of Reading is Libraries Change Lives through literacy and reading. This is the message in libraries across every sector - public libraries, school and academic libraries, those in national institutions - hospitals, commerce, law and government.

CILIP's Libraries Change Lives is our chance to shout about what we do from the rooftops, and for the profession to come together to celebrate, and to advocate for all our users across the four nations.

Join us and share your activities and events in comments below or post using
https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-change-lives

🗓️ What's on at this week?

Check out forthcoming events and training from CILIPS, CILIP in partnership with Naomi Korn Associates, CILIP Knowledge & Information Management Group and CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group
🔸Sign up for one of our excellent CPD events.
🔸Don't forget - CILIP events are FREE or discounted for CILIP members
🔸See our full listings and sign up for some top class CPD: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/event_list.asp