
'Join a Library Day' could become an annual event after the success of the National Year of Reading initiative this April.
National library membership saw a 24 per cent increase on figures from last April, prompting the idea of an annual drive on attracting new members.
Honor Wilson-Fletcher, NYR project director, said, "We set a target for the eight months of 350,000 new library members and we hit that target in less than two months."
Wilson-Fletcher attributes the success to "a mix of local activity and national campaigning" and says it doesn't stop there; "we will be doing more work to support libraries in reaching our target audiences both with the Summer Reading Challenge and with adult learning enrolment in the autumn."