No quick fix for libraries

meeting, councillors committed an additional £1 million of council funding over two years to design the approaches for each community over the first year and help support the transition to the agreed approach the following year.

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Since then, meetings have been held in the five rural communities-whose libraries were threatened with closure.

Culture Perth and Kinross - which operates the area's libraries on behalf of Perth and Kinross Council (PKC)-is now developing a Library Strategy 2025-27 with a vision to create “vibrant and sustainable library services”.

The four key aims of the strategy are to identify a long-term operating model for libraries, establish library hubs, develop community relationships which support the development and delivery of library services and identify new ways of working which increase efficiency of current process and practice.