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December 19, 2007
How to promote 'roundedness'
This circular has just been seen as it passes from the "MLA" ! -- From the cook in the canteen, one supposes.:
-Are museums, libraries and archives relevant to business?
We are just over half way through a study of relations between the cultural sector and the business world, and we'd like to invite you to come and kick our thinking around.
For the past few months MLA London has been working on a piece of research looking at the relationships between museums, libraries and archives and business. We’re beginning now to make sense of our findings, and have constructed a website so we can talk them through with the sector. We’re trying to get people’s reactions to our propositions through a combination of blogs, discussion boards and questions
We've interviewed dozens of people, gathered many hours of opinion and observation and piled it all into a big database with everything else we can lay our hands on. All that remains is to make sense of it all, over the next month or six weeks, and distil it into a small sharp report that's difficult to ignore. That's where we would like to invite you to join in. Over the next month we're going to publish our work in progress, post questions, sketches, maps and summaries and generally think out loud in front of everyone. Please come along, add comments and join the discussion. You can find us at:
http://mlal.sparknow.net/
and the latest news and thinking is always in the blog at:
http://mlal.sparknow.net/blog/
These are some of the topics that we will need to cover:
* who is responsible for bringing museums, libraries and archives to business?
* how to make people prize information quality?
* how to encourage people to stop, think and discover?
* how to cement relations between cultural institutions and the new networks that spring up around us?
* how to promote roundedness as an ideal for workers and businesses
and many more. If you care about museums, libraries, archives, business or modern working life, please come and join in!
best wishes,
Will, Ellen and Victoria.
The Knowledge Transfer Programme is a research project for MLA London, supported by the LDA and carried out by sparknow.
Ellen Collins
Research and Policy Assistant
MLA London
Fourth Floor
53-56 Great Sutton Street
London EC1V 0DG
Direct line: 020 7549 1705
Posted by Perkins at December 19, 2007 12:45 PM
Comments
So are you going to join in then?
Posted by: Julian at December 19, 2007 8:50 PM
How does this flagrant drive for "roundness" meet the Government's anti-obesity campaign?
Perhaps it is an allusion to E M Forster's notion of "round" and "flat" characters in novels?
Posted by: Christopher Hawtree at December 20, 2007 7:21 AM