Running your community library

Community Management Library committees manage the day-to-day delivery of the library. In return the County Council:

Last updated: 26th August

  • continues to cover all utility and maintenance costs (up to an agreed amount based on past usage)
     
  • support them with a comprehensive training course which has been developed with our existing community managed libraries. This includes:
     
    • premises management
       
    • health and safety
       
    • information governance and data protection
       
    • publicity
       
    • recruitment of volunteers
       
    • development of committee skills and structures.
       
  • provides ongoing support - the chosen organisations have strategic and practical support throughout this process and in the early days of ‘going live’ by a paid member of staff from the Libraries and Arts Service Community Capacity Team.