The Public Library Improvement Fund supports creative, sustainable and innovative public library projects throughout Scotland. The Fund plays a key role in helping public library services achieve the vision set out in Scotland's public library strategy.
The below awards were awarded between 2014 and 2017 and relate to Scotland's first every public Library Strategy: Ambition & Opportunity.
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City Library Services Reel Futures £9,000
Falkirk Community Trust Library Love Podcast & Vlog £2,620
Glasgow Life Gorbals Employability & Young Entrepreneurs Club £45,606
Inverclyde Library Service clubIN@the LIbrary £7,600
Midlothian Library Service Health Literacy & Self-management Training £12,550
Renfrewshire Libraries Get on Board £8,000
Shetland Library Service Shetland’s War 2017 £16,000
West Lothian Library Service More Chances £1,850
Western Isles Library Service Library + £9,500
Successful Collaborative Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Inverclyde Library Service & Partners Library Live! £35,100
Inverclyde & Midlothian Library Services AU-Some Libraries! £16,484
South Ayrshire & North Ayrshire Library Services Mind An Read Well! £8,542
You can also download the 2017 Public Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City Library Services Café Workshop @ Aberdeen Central Library £7,500
ANGUSAlive Angus Home Front in WW1 £7,000
ANGUSAlive Collaborative Practices – Supporting Emergent Readers £2,000
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Creative Community Hubs £3,640
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust East Dunbartonshire’s War £15,790
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Libraries Supporting Users with Different Needs £6,364
East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure Community Connections £10,000
East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure Lock & Leave Libraries £30,000
Edinburgh Library Service Edinburgh Explorers £5,330
Fife Cultural Trust Tablet Tasters £13,000
Glasgow Life Community Language Engagement £4,900
High Life Highland HIGH VOLTAGE: Teenage Volunteers in HLH Libraries £22,000
Moray Library Service Read All About It – Online! £10,000
North Ayrshire Library Service SongBook – A Creative Fusion of Books & Songwriting £6,900
Orkney Library Service Code Miners – Library Minecraft & Coding Clubs £2,000
Culture Perth & Kinross Digital Skills Volunteer Coordinator £12,220
Culture Perth & Kinross Lads & Dads Session in the Library £14,000
South Lanarkshire Leisure & Culture 70 Voices – An Intergenerational Dialogue £20,000
Stirling Library Services CODE: Lego £11,000
Western Isles Library Services Digital Hebrides £5,000
Successful Collaborative Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Scottish Reading Strategy for Public Libraries: Adult, Welcoming Dyslexic Readers in Libraries £26,240
Children’s & Young People’s Group.
Scottish Reading Strategy for Public Libraries: Adult Group National Reading Promotion: Read The Past – Imagine The Future £20,200
You can also download the 2016 Public Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Angus Libraries Coder Dojo Club £2,850
Angus Libraries Dementia Memory Boxes £2,230
Dumfries & Galloway Libraries Let’s Talk – Our History & Our Members £8,887
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Fab Lab £15,040
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Words for Wellbeing £10,900
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust East Dunbartonshire’s War £20,000
East Lothian Library Service 3D Printing for All £2,950
Edinburgh City Libraries Free Edinburgh’s History £6000
Falkirk Community Trust Minecraft as a Tool for Creativity & Inclusion £4,300
Fife Cultural Trust Walk ON with Fife Libraries £5,000
Glasgow Libraries Coder in Residence £32,000
Midlothian Council Extending the Braw Blether Network £20,000
Moray Council Library Service Great Reads of The Great War £3,919
North Ayrshire Council North Ayrshire eBooks £9,160
North Ayrshire Libraries & Partners Health & Wellbeing Information in Libraries: Phase 3 £7,517
Perth & Kinross Library & Information Service Reminiscence Groups in Libraries £4,450
Renfrewshire Libraries Loan to Learn £8,866
Stirling Council Mobile Maker Space: Enabling Digital Creativity through Outreach £14,500
West Dunbartonshire Libraries & Culture Clydebank Library Refurbishment Consultancy £13,000
West Lothian Libraries Your Library: Boys Toys £9,940
Western Isles Council Digital Zone Hebrides: Libraries Connect £22,259
Successful Collaborative Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Scottish Reading Strategy for Public Libraries: ReaDiscover £22,558
Adult Group
You can also download the 2015 Public Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Angus Libraries Lego Literacy Clubs £8,483
Clackmannanshire & Stirling Libraries Use IT! What can IT do for me? £46,940
Dumfries & Galloway Leisure & Culture Trust The Lockerbie Disaster: Preserving Sound & Vision for the Future £7,363
Dundee Libraries Dundee Dementia Information Service £10,000
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Green Screen Literacy & Learning £7,117
East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust Health Pop Up Library £13,300
Inverclyde Libraries All Aboard: Researching Our Resources Together £18,000
North Ayrshire Libraries APPtitude £9,482
North Ayrshire & Partners Health & Wellbeing Information in Libraries £7,028
Renfrewshire Libraries Get on – A Digital Participation Project £29,693
Borders Libraries Keep The Home Fires Burning – The Scottish Borders Stories £8,820
Shetland Libraries Shetland’s War £6,229
Western Isles Dr You: Self Help Information on Libraries £13,746
You can also download the 2014 Public Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
