Welcome!

Creating Partnerships is an online resource designed to support creative collaboration between libraries, museums and the arts. It is aimed at middle and senior managers involved in developing and building strategic partnerships.

It demonstrates how libraries, museums and the arts can work together to develop inspirational cultural partnerships that draw new audiences in new ways.

It provides a step-by-step guide on how to build your partnership in a way that is fruitful and sustainable in the longer term.

The on-line format makes it easy to pick out the information you need, depending on whether you are looking for the evidence and arguments to support partnership building, funding for project development, help in overcoming obstacles or support for other aspects of working together.

If you prefer you can also print the tool kit out as a word document for reference.

Creating Partnerships draws upon the East Midlands Books Connect project, which was designed as a pilot to demonstrate how books and reading can inspire new ways of working together. Its aim is to promote a new sort of multi-dimensional book experience that is creative and empowering for individuals, groups and communities, helping them to grow and learn and to broaden their cultural horizons.