Library Reading Ambassador
Help libraries activate reading communities through welcoming conversations, recommendations and events.
What you develop
reader advisory community welcome discussion resource discovery event support
This pathway combines reading activity with communication, service and leadership at an appropriate level for library users, volunteers and staff.
Recognition
Ambassadors can collect digital badges, mission completions and Reading Passport evidence. Recognition reflects participation and completion; it is not represented as a regulated professional qualification.
Five core missions
Create themed recommendations
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Welcome new readers
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Support a book club
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Promote library resources
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Collect reader feedback
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Progression
Build consistent reading participation.
Help others discover books and literacy activities.
Support supervised reading conversations and events.
Complete a larger approved reading-leadership project.
Connected to the wider RCI ecosystem.
Ambassadors can link missions to Reading Passport progress, the Literacy App, reading-leadership courses, book clubs, World Book Day and approved school/community activities.