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Develop New Audiences

Collections Link's Accreditation Resource Directory contains a number of useful resources including:

Downloads

• HLF Guidance on Producing an Audience Development Plan 
  Guidance on producing a very comprehensive Audience Development Plan. It is quite detailed but it has some useful ideas.
  
• Museum impact assessment: A practical guide (MLA South West) 
  A useful toolkit to help museums - and other heritage attractions, libraries and archives -examine how they collect information and assess their impact. Find out more.
  
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  Equality law in Northern Ireland (NIMC)

Online resources

• Inspiring Learning for All (ILFA) 
  A framework developed especially to help museums, libraries and archives define, evaluate and promote learning. There are lots of helpful resources within the website. The Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs) are particularly useful and there is a bank of questions which are useful for evaluation of learning projects and visitor surveys
  
• Listen up!: effective community consultation
  Audit Commission, 1999 (Supplier 6 - What's this?)
  £15.00. – ISBN 1 86240 196 6
  
• Museums in Northern Ireland that are run by public authorities are required to comply with Section 75 and Schedule 9 to the 1998 Northern Ireland Act. Find out more
  
• The Our Place Network is designed to support those engaged in outreach and new audience development in the heritage and cultural sectors

Publications

• Building bridges: guidance for museums and galleries on developing new audiences
  Museums & Galleries Commission, 1998
  £12.00

• Community Involvement in Museums, Archives and Libraries. Toolkit for improving practice
  Yorkshire Museums Council (COGS), 2002 (Supplier 18 - What's this?)

• Directions in diversity: current opinion and good practice
  Audit Commission, 2002 (Supplier 6 - What's this?)
  £18.00. – ISBN 1 86240 410 0

• Handbook for friends
  British Association of Friends of Museums, 1996
  £5.00. (Several authors) - All you need to know about setting up a Friends organisation

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