Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services regarding the National Libraries Taskforce.

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services with an update on the National Libraries Taskforce.

The Committee received the report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services (Item 9 in the Minute Book) summarising the new national vision for libraries.

It was reported that, in December 2016, the national Libraries Taskforce published ‘Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-2021’. Members heard how the County Council, through its Library Strategy to 2020, was already delivering on many of the key aspect of the Taskforce’s vision. Members were pleased to hear of this success and praised the Library Service for its achievement in meeting these key aims.

RESOLVED:

That the Culture and Communities Select Committee endorses the Libraries Taskforce’s ‘Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-2021’ and recognises its good fit with Hampshire’s Library Strategy to 2020 and recommends to the Executive Member for Culture, Recreation and Countryside that he does the same.