Question reference: S4W-27410
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 9 September 2015
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2015
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how the pilot library card scheme for children is being progressed, and whether the Improvement Service will administer this through the National Entitlement Card.
Answer
The ‘Every Child is a Library Member’ pilots are being administered by individual local authorities in partnership with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). SLIC provides advice to local authorities and supports improvements in public libraries through the Public Library Improvement Fund provided by the Scottish Government. Local authorities are trialling various methods of distributing the library membership, including at the birth registration, via Bookbug packs and during Primary 1. There is no intended Scottish Government specific link with the National Entitlement Card.
Details of individual projects can be found on the SLIC website:
http://scottishlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ECLM-Pilot-Summaries.pdf