http://www.greatermanchesterartshealth.org.uk/library.php

Greater Manchester Arts Health Network (GMAHN) acts as a collaborative hub brokering relationships with local authority, health, voluntary sector and cultural organisations andagencies for the development of creative wellbeing projects and programmes.

"Acting as a collaborative hub straddling strategic development and operational best practice, the network plays a key role in creating opportunities, providing information and developing a collective body of research for arts and health. Forward thinking, the network leads new areas of research and development, influences policy and practice and is working to provide effective evaluation and persuasive evidence of impact."

Some thoughts on the website:

It seems a really clear, uncluttered approach to displaying a vast array of materials. I was only meant to be having a quick look and spent a good while on it! I really like the viewable windows within the page - it is really easy to access the information.

The only thing I think personally the library page would benefit from is a clearer (perhaps through different colours or tables) structure to the titles of papers/articles. I know that all of them do not have dates, sources, contacts etc., but at present all the information is presented in the same colour and I can't easily read what would interest me. I'm really thinking about the longevity of this - hopefully there will be hundreds and hundreds of links to information on this and I would find it frustrating looking through those pages.

I think that there are obviously lots of ways to add/provide interaction with the site (colour coding, tagging - as quite a number of things would fit into several categories, highlighting what is 'newly added', directory for organisations, accounts for people to know what they have looked at, comments on etc.) but I fully appreciate this would cost money to develop and support.

If people chose to use this, it will be a fantastic tool for people to use and share. It could be a good platform to support and engage small, self-employed arts organisations to share what they do too - get them to write, evaluate, share images of the smaller projects and work they do. It also looks to be really useful at sourcing all those small (and not so small) organisations that publish leaflets/visual material, annual reports on their work and it perhaps doesn't quite reach the public realm.

I will definitely be looking regularly to see what is going on!

(p.s. - Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ - 'Beautiful word clouds")