About Us

Libri is a new charity. It was formed four years ago by a group of enthusiasts for public libraries dismayed at their recent decline.

Libri’s mission is to encourage a vibrant and relevant public library network, focused on its prime responsibility of providing books the public with a good choice of books for reading and reference. A network where each local library can develop as a centre of community involvement, and which everyone in the local community wants to use.

We believe that the public library service has important lessons to learn from all sectors of the book trade and the information provision sector. Learning the lessons will help create a public library service that is efficient, serves the needs of local communities and maintains public libraries as the heart of community life.

Demand for books has never been greater. The public library service is excluding itself from this trend and the time is ripe for change.