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2010

This report is prepared by CFE on behalf of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in order to demonstrate the extent of the existing digital offer in public libraries; and identify potential future roles for the library sector in supporting the national plan for digital participation and the digital inclusion priorities set by Martha Lane Fox, the Digital Champion.

This report has been prepared to support the MLA in demonstrating the role that public libraries have in supporting and promoting digital participation. The report presents data from an online survey of library sector representatives. The results can be used to inform future planning and ensure a more strategic approach to the delivery of digital participation by libraries, including a more targeted approach and more consideration of how the offer is marketed to local communities, particularly the disadvantaged and digitally excluded who do not always have access to online media and marketing.