Nominations are now open for the 2025 The Carnegies! CILIP members can nominate one title per Medal that meets the Awards criteria. Learn more and submit your nominations by 27th September. 📚🏅 carnegies.co.uk/nominations/

Join us on 8th Oct for a free online webinar on practices to support teenage reading for pleasure - what do teens say is important? This webinar for teachers, librarians, and anyone else interested in supporting teenage reading! Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-ins…

Our first Advocacy Newsletter for our sector partners, friends and advocates is out today! 🗞️ Sharing all of our advocacy outputs, projects and tools we've used or created to become the best library advocates! 🥳💪 Anyone is welcome to subscribe here: cilips.org.uk/about/cilips-n…

Briana's poster rightly has pride of place on the library wall. It's an apt message for SLG Scotland's next event - when colleagues come together and share, great things happen!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Earlier today, I spoke to the P&J about the importance of inclusive books in Moray school libraries, in the face of an increasing conservative movement trying to censor LGBTQ content in the UK 📚 pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/…

This is good timing ahead of our Vent Event on behaviour. In the latest School Library Association (SLA) The School Librarian Magazine: Behaviour in the School Library Sue Cowley . #TSL.

Said by no school librarian, ever. Not loving behaviour during wet intervals and lunchtimes? Check out our latest #AskAlex post for some advice. cilips.org.uk/ask-alex-rained

“We're looking at a kind of happiness recession among our children.” The decline in parents reading and playing with their children is “catastrophic”, Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells #TimesRadio. @FrankCottrell_B | @RosieWright99

Recent research confirms that the public see digital services as no substitute for physical library spaces, with school libraries and school librarians likewise vital for creating inclusive and sustainable safe spaces. Midlothian friends, please RT and complete the consultation:

As Frank Cottrell-Boyce says in the article, the solution is in our hands. Stop closing libraries. Retain school librarians and employ many more. Fund author visits to schools. Publishers, stop throwing cash at celebrities and focus instead on engaging young readers. We can fix this.

You can’t have reading for pleasure without easy access to books. All primary schools need a school library and librarian

A #school #librarian can make a huge difference. They will invest in comic books and manga and novels not found on supermarket shelves. They will bring in authors and generate enthusiasm around #readingforpleasure. They will make the #library the most popular place in the school

This has been reshared a lot recently. Many #schoollibrarians are sharing stats which show that reading in their schools is not in decline-quite the reverse. The evidence is clear: having a librarian in school can build and embed a reading culture. Follow us to find out more.

Have you signed up for our fun and friendly Christmas quiz yet? tinyurl.com/2njza887

Such a brilliant project!

We see access to a well-stocked library a basic human right for children. That's why we have chosen #HumanRightsDay to share our important new survey of school librarians in Scotland. If you care about school libraries, please share our findings so far. 📚✨

CILIPS are thrilled to be speaking out for school libraries Scottish Parliament this week, setting out our stall of ABCs (plus Ds and Es) on why school librarians deserve support, recognition and protection. Engage with the evidence here and please say hello, MSPs! cilips.org.uk/school-library…

Have you signed up for our author event with William Hussey this week? A free event for school and youth librarians. Having just finished his fantastic new book The Boy I Love, we have to say it's not to missed! eventbrite.co.uk/e/slg-scotla...