1. Revolution without Burning Books Helen Milner @helenmilner Revolution: Without Burning Books Helen Milner @helenmilner

2. “ In terms of size, arrangement and catalogues, the conventional library has reached an organisational and financial impasse. Coincidentally there has emerged a pre-emptive new technology for the storage, handling and transmission of information, potentially better suited to the convenience of users. Libraries may disappear like the dinosaurs; or they may, by returning to first principles, be able to adapt and successfully survive.” James Thompson, (1983) "The end of libraries"

8. 3,800 active centres: Not owned, managed or funded by us Online centre search and free phone number search (one database for UK)

9. 500,000 people got online and registered with UK online centres between April 2010 and July 2011 www.go-on.co.uk

14. Technology changes everything and changes nothing

17. It’s time for a revolution in the places we run and the places we use

18. "Many high streets will never return to their pre-recession days”

19. The internet isn’t just changing high streets

20. mobile Outreach shared services New community owned multi-use places

23. 14,000 volunteers across network

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