Case studies: Libraries

• Story Sessions - Barnardo's Social Inclusion Service and Cornwall Library Services - signed story sessions and an arts day at the Eden Project
• Exploring new territory, HMP Birmingham - how a Got Kids? Get Reading! project helped the library and education department get men reading with their children
• Bookstart - nationwide book gifting programme working with health services to reach very young children
• Children's centres and family reading - what children's centres nationwide can do to promote reading, including examples of partnership with libraries
• Family learning and libraries, Cumbria - robot-building workshops that attracted dads (from the Reading Champions pages)
• Everybody's Book project, East Sussex - making a picture book written and illustrated by children and adults in temporary accommodation
• Extra Time gets RaW with the BBC, Liverpool - how Everton FC is promoting storytelling and community cohesion
• The Federation of Children's Book Groups - examples of activities and events
• Lambeth libraries, London - a Love Libraries event with children's writers and illustrators
• Reading Is Fundamental, UK - an initiative allowing children to choose and keep free books and take part in fun events with their families
• Sure Start Kennington, Lambeth, London - partnership with libraries brings book characters to life
• Sure Start Myatt's Field Angell Town, Lambeth, London - literacy development together with health workers, libraries and a hostel for teenage mums
• Bedtime Wriggly Readers, Loughborough - library workers put on their PJs for storytime with babies and toddlers
• Mosscare 'reads' the way forward, Manchester - how a housing association, in partnership with a Sure Start librarian, set up a reading corner in its offices
• National Tell a Story Day, Mayfield Library, Midlothian - family activities and story-telling for Halloween
• North Huyton Sure Start, Knowsley - partnership with football clubs and Bookstart to reach out to dads (from the Reading Champions pages)
• Right to Read, Knowsley - training foster carers to support children who have missed out on family reading experiences, in conjunction with children's services, a Primary Care Trust and social services
• Encouraging looked-after children to engage in reading, Peterborough - encouraging foster carers to share books regularly with children
• Southwark libraries - partnerships in action - special cards for foster carers and home-educated children, plus a partnership with Sure Start children's centres
• The Café Reading Project, St Stephen's C of E Primary School, Lambeth - families choose books from the library and share them in the local café
• Woodburn Parents' Library, Dalkeith, Midlothian - how parents at a primary school made books for their children and set up a lending library

More information on libraries from the NLT site