MLA North West facilitates a regional Diversity network for museums, libraries and archives. The network seeks to address issues of diversity through the sharing of good practice, information and ideas.
The network aims to:
- ensure that the North West’s museums, archives and libraries can play an active role in meeting the needs of their diverse communities
- broaden the understanding of the role that museums, libraries and archives can play in engaging people in decisions about their heritage and culture
- promote knowledge and understanding of our diverse cultural heritage
- share best practice and build innovative partnerships through the development and promotion of case studies
- develop a training programme for museums, libraries and archives practitioners, to develop skills, knowledge and confidence in how cultural diversity impacts on all aspects their services
- pilot self assessment diversity toolkits.
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