The Scottish Library and Information Council

SLIC offers leadership focus and support to the Scottish library and information sector, co-ordinating and promoting national service developments to benefit Scotland’s people and enrich our cultural, educational and economic landscape.

Funding

We administer Scottish Government funding for both public libraries and school libraries. We also offer funding to the wider library and information sector.

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Advice & Guidance

Learn about Scotland's National Strategies as well as evaluative frameworks and handy toolkits which help libraries improve their services.

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Projects

SLIC is involved in a large number of national library projects including One Card, Read Write Count and the Scottish Coworking Network.

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Library Fines Abolished at Live Borders

5th December 2019 | SLIC News

Fines for overdue books have been abolished at Live Borders Libraries just in time for Christmas

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Our School Library - A SLIF Project

4th December 2019 | SLIC Blog

On the SLIF blog this month we look at the 'Our School Library!' Project at Largs Academy which received SLIF funding in 2018.

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Fife Wins Mobile Libraries Day Competition

4th December 2019

Fife Cultural Trust has been picked as the winner of our Mobile Libraries Day 2019 photo competition.

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SLIC Dec 05

Library fines at @LiveBorders have been abolished for overdue books. Read more here! #ScottishLibraries https://t.co/7XJvS5VuI3

SLIC Dec 04

SLIC Members! Have you heard of our Resource Discovery Fund? A total of £45,000 is available for projects which wo… https://t.co/lxrg4kpGve

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