Authors advocate for automatic library cards for all newborns
TL;DR
A group of prominent authors, including Sir Philip Pullman and Kate Mosse, are advocating for automatic library cards for all newborns in the UK, aiming to promote literacy and early engagement with libraries by linking membership to birth registration, with support from the CPU and potential funding from government departments.
- Give all newborn babies library card automatically, top authors urge BBC
- Richard Osman among authors backing call to issue library card to all UK babies The Guardian
- Library card plan to help write newborns’ first chapter The Observer
- Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman back proposal to give newborns automatic library cards The Bookseller
- Give newborns automatic library card, authors urge AOL.com
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