Libraries
How to get involved with World Book Day. If you are a school librarian please also visit our educators page.
How to get involved with World Book Day. If you are a school librarian please also visit our educators page.
Libraries play a unique role in promoting reading in communities. As a free (at point of use) public service they can provide a stepping-stone to engagement with reading and book buying for less engaged readers and disadvantaged communities. Working together, World Book Day and libraries can promote reading, help change attitudes to book accessibility and encourage engagement with book shops and the wider world of books overall.
We want to support libraries to use World Book Day to promote reading and library membership across the UK & Ireland. Here are just some of the ways that you can do this:
Our brand new World Book Day Libraries Toolkit for 2024 is available to download here!
This toolkit is for public librarians. If you are a school librarian some of the information in this toolkit could beneficial for you. However, we would recommend also referring to the school packs.
If you missed our charity and not-for-profits webinar you can watch this below or on our YouTube channel.
Hear from the World Book Day team and £1/€1.50 book authors, Tọlá Okogwu and Louie Stowell, as we talk through how your organisation can join in with the 2024 celebrations in this free webinar. Hear more about how we are putting children’s voices at the heart of our Read Your Way campaign and how your celebrations can help support this.
Libraries run amazing World Book Day events to encourage families to love reading. Please add your events to our map so that we can help more children and young people to enjoy them.
Please contact hi@worldbookday.com to receive access to our assets and brand guidelines
For World Book Day 2023, we extended our partnership with the National Literacy Trust and Libraries Connected to include 15 of the NLT’s hub areas. In each area we worked with hub, library and other local leaders to develop a deeper understanding of how community partners can be part of World Book Day as a major national movements to reach into communities who are less likely to engage.
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Four library events, supported by Arts Council England through its National Lottery Project Grants programme, will also bring to life the World Book Day 6 Principles through exciting activity with £1/€1.50 book authors.
In 2024, a massive 105,000 books are being distributed through a range of supporters and partners, including working with BookTrust’s network of 6,000 local organisations to get the £1 book tokens into some of the country’s most disadvantaged communities.
Alongside events, 24,000 books will be distributed through prisons to help families read together, while 43,750 books will be shared across 17 National Literacy Hubs and over 100 football clubs to support book ownership in areas of high deprivation and low literacy.