On Saturday 26 May, from 10am to 5pm, eight library authorities in the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network (Poole, Glasgow, Leeds, Huddersfield, Norwich, Exeter, Sheffield and Wakefield) plus the British Library itself, will offer live streams of Hay Festival sessions for adults and children, including conversations with David Walliams, Cressida Cowell, Laura Bates and Owen Sheers, Melvyn Bragg, Tessa Dunlop, Melvyn Bragg, Andy Stanton, David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Bettany Hughes and the International Man Booker Prize winner.
The Living Knowledge Network is a nationwide partnership between the British Library and 22 major libraries in cities and towns across the UK. The Network combines local expertise and national organising power to share knowledge, resources and activities. At the heart of the Living Knowledge Network is a simple aspiration - to create value by sharing ideas and sparking connections between libraries, collections and people across the UK.
The new partnership follows last year’s announcement that the Hay Festival had donated its entire audio and video archive to the British Library to mark the Festival’s 30th anniversary.
Ella Snell, Living Knowledge Network Manager, said: “The British Library is delighted that eight library authorities are screening talks from the 2018 Hay Festival through the Living Knowledge Network. This is a fantastic example of how we are working in partnership to bring knowledge alive.”