North west regional manager, Nathan Lee, accepted an invitation from the Merseyside Cultural Forum in early April to tell them more about the work of the MLA.
Nathan spoke about the MLA’s policy agenda and what the organisation can do for individual local authorities, to an audience of heads of cultural and leisure services and councillors who are the relevant portfolio holders.
The meeting at Crosby Leisure Centre, close to the beach where Anthony Gormley’s Another Place statues look out to sea, included officers and members from Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral.
The audience was particularly keen to know more about the differences between how libraries are now and what they need to be in the future. And there was an interesting conversation about how libraries can create the sort of buzz found in high street bookshops.
April 2009