An interesting development in York, with the proposed mutualisation of the city's York Explore Centre (archive and libraries), and funding to the tune of £100,000 from the Cabinet Office Mutuals Support Programme for the project's development. The Cabinet Office press release on this is at
http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/first-staff-led-mutual-library-receives-%C2%A3100000-backing
(For more on mutuals see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_organization)
(With thanks to Wendy Archer and Richard Taylor, from the Archives-NRA list)
Chris
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