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IRISH PLR - CLOSING DATE The closing date for receipt of new PLR registration forms for the Irish PLR year 2010 is Tuesday 31 August 2010 at 5.00pm. Further information is available on the Irish PLR website. Please note that applications must be sent directly to the Irish PLR office. PLR FUNDING The new Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced the savings in public spending that are to be found from the DCMS budget this year. All bodies sponsored by DCMS are to have their funding reduced by 3%. In PLR’s case, this equates to some £230,000. It is too early in the year to predict the likely impact on the Rate Per Loan and on the payments to authors to be made in February 2011. But we shall be doing all that we can at PLR to find further savings in the running costs of the Scheme to help offset the overall reduction in PLR funding. Decisions on funding for the next three years (2011-14) will be made by Minsters in the autumn after the government completes its spending review. 30 JUNE REMINDER Books must be registered by 30 June 2010 in order to be credited with loans recorded since 1 July 2009. You can apply to register your published titles online or via an application form. Alternatively we can post forms on request. Online applications must be submitted by midnight on 30 June to be included in the year end calculations. Postal applications must also be received by no later than 30 June. DIGITAL ECONOMY ACT AND PLR Under the Digital Economy Act, passed in April 2010, PLR is to be extended to include public library loans of audio books and certain categories of ebooks. To introduce these changes the PLR legislation will have to be amended, and we look forward to working with DCMS on this. We will advise authors when we are able to accept applications to register audio and ebooks. In the meantime, registration is restricted to books which are ‘printed and bound’. GOVERNMENT REVIEW PROPOSES NEW PLR ARRANGEMENTS The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published the results of its review of public libraries. It includes plans to set up a new strategic body for the library sector in England bringing together the functions of the Registrar of PLR, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Advisory Council on Libraries. The proposal is part of DCMS’s drive to modernise and rationalise operational arrangements for the public bodies that it sponsors. The next step will be for the Government to undertake a business case in consultation with stakeholders and to publish more detail as part of its broader review of publicly-funded arms-length bodies. The libraries review can be found on the DCMS website. For the moment, it's business as usual at the PLR office and we will make authors aware of details of the government's plans for PLR as they emerge. In the meantime, if you have any queries or comments please contact the PLR office. PLR REVEALS THE MOST BORROWED AUTHORS AND BOOKS Jacqueline Wilson is the most borrowed author of the last decade it was announced this morning. The loans data collected by PLR comes from libraries across the UK and provides a unique insight into the nation’s book borrowing tastes. The Media Centre provides more details of the most popular authors and books in UK libraries across a range of subject categories during 2008-09 and over the last decade. ANNUAL STATEMENTS AND PAYMENTS The Rate Per Loan has now been confirmed and has increased for the first time in three years to 6.29 pence. The current timetable is as follows (any changes will be communicated if this timetable is affected): Statements Online statements will be available to view on 6 January 2010. An email will be sent to those who have an activated online account to advise that their statement is available. Users may then log into their secure online account to view/print their statement. Paper statements will be posted second class on 6 January 2010 to those who do not have an online account. Please note that you will only receive a statement if you are due to receive a payment (ie if your books earn £1 or more). This is to reduce administration and postage costs - online statements will still be available regardless of the amount earned. Payments Payments will be made during the week commencing 8 February 2010. Please ensure that your bank details are up to date to prevent delay in receiving your payment. Cheques will be posted second class on 8 February. You can update your address and bank details in writing or via the online service. We can also accept changes of address (but not bank) over the telephone, subject to verification being provided. Please note that we are unable to accept changes to either address or bank details via email. Digital PLR Update Proposals to extend PLR to audio books and ebooks lent out by public libraries are included in the Digital Economy Bill which is currently going through Parliament. The Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords in December and will now proceed to Committee stage.
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