Your library, your place 2020-2030: easy read

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Libraries in North Yorkshire are an important part of the community.

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Our libraries are doing very well and have been given national awards.

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Three volunteers with  name badges standing in a row.

Volunteers are very important and help to keep our libraries open.

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A portrait of Greg White, the Executive Member for Libraries.

Greg White—Executive Member for Libraries.

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A portrait of Richard Flinton, Chief Executive of the Council.

Richard Flinton—Chief Executive of the Council.

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Please contact us if you want to tell us what you think about this plan.

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Please contact Library Secretaries.

Contact us.

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Our libraries are more than a place to borrow books.

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They are somewhere you can go to get help and information, and to do activities.

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We want our libraries to:

Support reading and learning.

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Support better health and wellbeing.

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Have computers and help people to use them.

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Be an important place for communities.

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These are some things we need to do to make sure our libraries keep doing well. They are:

Help more people to read.

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Make libraries bright and safe places to visit.

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Help people to learn.

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Have activities and events.

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Help people to use computers.

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Have internet access and free WiFi.

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Help people to find out about their community.

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Have good quality books in different formats.