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readership development resources
- Branching
Out
- Offers project ideas, staff and stock development, examples of reader
development strategies and national reader development contacts.
Branching out guide to Independent Presses is also very useful.
- National
Literacy Trust
- An independent charity concerned with raising literacy standards for
all age groups throughout the UK.
- Opening
the Book
- Website of Opening the Book, a leading reader development organisation,
provides consultancy advice, and has developed the following online
reader development resources
- Reading
Agency
- A charity working to support libraries in creating the best access
to reading. They develop pilot models and national programmes, partnerships,
advocacy, research, training and promotional materials. They support
work with children, young people and adults. The site offers a Project
Search, with contact details for project managers.
- Whichbook.net
- Intuitive online book selection tool.
- Word
of Mouth
- Online reader-to-reader book recommendation resource.
- Scottish
Book Trust
- The Scottish Book Trust offers guidance and information, publishes
resources for libraries and schools and administers the Writers in Scotland
Scheme, an Scottish Arts Council funded initiative to bring writers
and readers together throughout Scotland.
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Scotland's Information
Research Collections Online
Scottish Library and Information Resources
Scottish Distributed Digital Library
Scottish Collections Network
Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland
