Newcastle City Library received Investing in Children in September this year because of the positive partnership work with a group of young people on the developments of a new Library to be built in 2009. The group also made changes to the Library by introducing new ideas to the existing Library service which were:

• Book of the Month decided by young people for young people.

• A list of children’s books, that children can get on CD and tape, with the introduction of a sticker so that children and young people know they are in those formats.

• Young people can now say if a book they have read is “I’m a good read for kids”. 

The Culture Minister David Lammy visited the group when he was recently in Newcastle to find out what the group have been doing with Newcastle City Library. He also gave out the Investing in Children  membership certificate for the positive work the library did with the young people, as can been seen in the pictures.