NLT reports

• Mapping the Territory - funded by Resource and conducted by the National Literacy Trust to map the role of museums, libraries and archives in developing adult basic skills (December 2002 - July 2003)

Resources

• Recent research abstracts on libraries and reading
• Articles from Literacy Today

Research, reviews, etc

• Teenagers, reading and censorship - this report outlines young people's understanding of, and attitudes towards, censorship, by Sarah McNichol (Dec 2006, UCE)
• Libraries impact report - from a project that aimed to measure libraries' impact on the policy areas of children, education, health and older people (Laser Foundation/
  PricewaterhouseCoopers, July 2005)
• New Directions in Social Policy: Developing the Evidence Base for Museums, Libraries and Archives in England - assesses evidence for the impact of these institutions on individuals and communities, by K Oakley for Burns Owens Partnership (MLA, 2004)
• Developing reading communities - Partnerships between schools, public libraries and SLSs support reading development work with young people (ContinYou, December 2004)
• Reader development and reading promotion in school libraries and public libraries - this report highlights the importance of working together, by Sarah McNichols (2003, UCE)
• Impact of school library services on achievement and learning in primary schools - this literature review points to a lack of research in this area, by D. Williams (MLA, 2002)
• The impact of school library services on achievement and learning - a critical review of the international literature, by D Williams (MLA, 2001)