This section of the library service offers special services to schools and elderly or disabled residents. Library outreach work to promote family reading and coordination of national and London Wide reading promotions.
London is home to a wide range of reading experiences - whether for work, study or pleasure.
This is the website of BBC Raw, where you can find quizzes and recommended reads. Find out at your library what is going on locally, borrow the books and try the quizzes online.
To get London Reading, 12 books set in and about the city, have been put together.
The London Lives website is a celebration of London's famous people and places. Library staff in the London boroughs have compiled a list of books about the notable characters and unusual features of the London area.
This is a People's Network site for readers to share opinions about books.

Freda Golland, Senior Librarian (Family Reading Development), with one of the specially designed folding book display units which are being deposited in schools to support 'Keeping up with the Children' courses.
Susan Leighton
Principal Librarian (Learning and Development)
Library Services Headquarters
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Muirhead Quay
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Highbridge Road
Barking
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Freda Golland
Senior Librarian (Family Reading and Development)
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