The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has had its funding pulled in the latest series of cuts to what are considered non-essential services - putting 123 people out of work.
We will see how this may impact on rolling out digital access to collections...as their brief had been:
"promoting access to collections, resources and information", pushing experiments in two-way communication with users.
One example, listed by the MLA, is allowing the public to "tag objects, make their own collections and interact with curators, archivists and librarians online".
Libraries and museums have been encouraged to find ways of allowing digital objects to be "taken out of museum, archive and library spaces and into the public's own personal digital spaces".
[UK AuthorITy accessed 29th July 2010]
Their project Reference Online integrated services across the country.
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