London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is pleased to announce our new online education resource - The LMA 'Learning Zone' www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/learningzone The Learning Zone highlights some key aspects of LMA's collections and work, and presents both documents and data in a way that is accessible to school children, life long learners and those in further and higher education. Learning Zone includes 'Data Online', where LMA showcases the major findings of the project Black and Asian Londoners: Presence and Background 1536-1840. Users of Data Online can now search by name, date, place of baptism, place of origin or address in a database of entries relating to Black and Asian people in Anglican baptism registers for London and Middlesex. Data Online not only lets you search for information, but also see a digital copy of the entry you choose. Data Online gives information about the project so that you can understand where the data has been found, and gives the project parameters. We hope that this resource will be extremely useful to pre- and post-16 education alike, as well as to the interested individual researcher. Learning Zone makes use of the stories found in the Black and Asian Londoners project in 'SchooLMAte', the section of Learning Zone designed for schools. There are maps, stories, images, documents, timelines, audio resources and weblinks to useful alternative websites. SchooLMAte presently focuses on some aspects of the history of Black and Asian, French, and Irish communities in London. The resources available on SchooLMAte are suitable for Key Stages 2 and 3. Learning Zone is a new web resource, and it is currently in a review and development phase. In terms of future development, the Corporation of London Records Office will be contributing material to a new 'City Communities' section later this year. LMA will be creating a new 'LMA Map Zone' to give a topographical look at five central London Boroughs. There will also be a greatly expanded section on 'Archive Work' which will highlight some of the jobs undertaken at LMA, helping to present an appealing face of the archive sector to young people considering future careers. In order to help us improve this exciting new resource, please take a look at the Learning Zone and give us your thoughts via the feedback form. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma_learning/learningzone/lz_feedback.asp Steve Gardam Communications & Marketing Officer London Metropolitan Archives 40 Northampton Road London EC1R 0HB tel. 020 7332 3851 fax. 020 7833 9136 [log in to unmask] www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/learningzone