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				Julian Walker The British Library



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The British Library Education Department has commissioned two interactive guides, or "thinkits", one for the "Painted Labyrinth" exhibition on the Lindisfarne Gospels in 2003, and another for the Ritblat Treasures Gallery.

The first takes the form of an A2 sheet which can be folded to make a book, with activities and thought-provoking questions for children and adults. These range from colouring in to questioning the circumstances under which it is acceptable to write on printed books.

The second guide, again a printed A2 sheet, can be made up into a treasure chest with three folded books. One side is directed at children, and includes activities such as identifying the languages represented in the gallery, inventing new book-forms, and finding animals. The adult activities include inventing pictograms, remapping the gallery, and poses questions about ownership, authorship and the ethical placement of texts.