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- A Catalyst for Change
- The Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of spatial cultural differences [CineMuseSpace]
- Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues
- Cultural activity within historic houses
- Developing learning advocates in the East Midlands
- Developing learning advocates in the North West
- Developing new audiences and promoting social inclusion
- Disorder, dissent and disruption
- Encountering the Unexpected
- Engage, learn, achieve
- Engaging archives with Inspiring Learning for All
- Engaging the City
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- EuNaMus
- Evaluating Creativity
- Everyone Welcome 2019-2021
- Everywhere and Nowhere
- Exceptional & Extraordinary
- EXILE at Kingston Lacy
- Generic learning outcomes
- girl.boy.child
- Growing social role of botanic gardens
- HumanKind
- Impact of generic learning outcomes
- Imperial War Museum North
- Including Museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums, second study
- Leaders in Co-creation?
- Learning impact research project
- Learning through Culture
- The Madonna of the pinks
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 1
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 2
- Mapping the change phase 2
- Mindful Museum
- Mirror
- Museu do Samba, Brazil
- Museums and an ageing population
- Museums and social inclusion: the GLLAM report
- Museums health and wellbeing
- Co-production Framework at National Museums Liverpool
- New Walk Museum vision
- Not for the likes of you
- Open House
- Open minds
- Participatory practices at the Science Museum
- Permissible Beauty
- Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
- Prisoners, Punishment and Torture
- Redefining the Role of Botanic Gardens
- Research network to advance museum ethics
- Researching Learning in Museums and Galleries 1990-1999
- Rethinking Disability Representation
- shOUT
- Small museums and social inclusion
- Stories of a Different Kind
- Supporting Decolonial Futures
- Talking statues
- TCS project
- The Museum as a Space of Social Care
- The Queer Heritage and Collections Network
- Their Past Your Future 2
- Seeing the museum through the visitors’ eyes
- Trans-Inclusive Culture
- Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point
- Unfinished portrait at Felbrigg Hall
- “In the past we would just be invisible”
- What did you learn at the museum today?
- What did you learn at the museum today? Second study
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG)
Books connect 2
Led by public libraries, Books Connect 2 demonstrates how books and reading can inspire innovative ways for libraries, museums and archives to work in partnership with the arts to develop new audiences and new venues for reading inspired creativity. The second phase of the project sought to embed and sustain the work of its predecessor project, Books Connect 1, completed in November 2002.
Aims and objectives
RCMG was commissioned by the East Midlands Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (EMMLAC), The Society of Chief Librarians and the Reading Agency to evaluate the second phase of the Books Connect project. The theme was community cohesion and to encourage the sharing of cultural experience between different communities through reading. RCMG worked in partnership with EMMLAC to evaluate nine projects across the East Midlands and provided in-depth evidence of the impact of the experience upon participants using the Generic Learning Outcomes.
Key findings
- A total of 3,617 people took part in the nine projects of Books Connect 2, over ten times more people than the first phase of the programme.
- Books Connect reached out to a number of diverse audiences. Work was undertaken with participants of a wide range of ages, experiences and abilities, economic and social disadvantage, rural and urban communities, and isolated communities such as prisoners and travellers.
- Project co-ordinators felt that being involved in Books Connect 2 led to new skills and experiences for library staff, including community awareness and knowledge, developing community partnerships, understanding the needs and cultural differences of partner organisations, and working on a larger scale than previous projects.
Outcome
Books Connect 2 is an advocacy document for staff, arts organisations and their funders. It is an inspirational document giving details of the nine projects and exploring the impact upon participants.
Books Connect 2 (Report, 2004) (PDF, 1,335KB)