Welcome!
In July 2007, with support from the LDA, MLA London began a ground-breaking programme of work to examine and support relationships between museums, libraries and archives and businesses.
On 17 September 2008 we published the findings from the initial research phase of our programme. Based on this research, we have developed a series of pilot projects, which will test new approaches, spread good practice and overcome some of the barriers to effective relationships between business and the sector.
If you would like to know more about the research and our plans for the next stage of the programme, please download the reports here. Or alternatively, you can get in touch with Ellen Collins.
Meanwhile, here is the latest from the project blog. We will be using it to track our thoughts and plans for the pilots, which will begin in April 2009. Please do sign up and comment on anything you see. It only takes a moment, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Finding our way
from Ellen Collins, Friday, October 17, 2008
Maps everywhere last night at the Origin craft fair: on handbags, scarves, even little cut-out paper shoes. Last year, when I went to interview makers for the knowledge transfer programme research, I don’t recall maps: they obviously didn’t make such an impression. I suspect have observed a new interest in ‘finding the way’ – but does that interest begin with the makers, or with me?
Eavesdropping, as one can’t help but do in such a buzzy atmosphere, I overheard several designers speaking with pleasant surprise of the fact that they’d sold out, or very nearly. ‘I was bracing myself…
