The current Economist magazine has a leader (http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21714169-technological-change-demands-stronger-and-more-continuous-connections-between-education ) and a  ‘Special Report’ on ‘Lifelong Learning’. I can’t find a single mention of libraries in either. That’s food for thought......

Is the irrelevance of libraries a reality? Is this poor marketing by libraries? What impact has the SCL Learning offer had?   http://goscl.com/universal-offers/learning-offer/

At the end of 2014 CILIP held  an Executive Briefing on “Re-imaging learning” ( http://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/Re-imagining%20Learning%20-%20Programme.pdf   ) Lord Tope (then chair of the Libraries All-Party Parliamentary Group) introduced the briefing.  Is it true that libraries have made little progress with this agenda? Where did the idea of the ‘People’s University’ go?

Ken

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