I hate to argue this fine point, but we do pay our docents and it doesn't
help.  We have just as much trouble as the next person in eliminating false
information from our guides.  We have gone to great lengths to show them the
information is incorrect and despite knowing it, they continue to give false
information.

Tracie Evans
----- Original Message -----
From: Martha Hagood <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Proper term


> Well.  I've listened (read) this thread, and all I can say is, if you want
> competence, pay for it.
>
> Martha Hagood
> Baltimore
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: b. Schirmer <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Proper term
>
>
> > Although many of you out there have little curatorial supervision of
> docents and minimal supervision or ongoing information updates, the museum
I
> work at has both.  And we have just as much of a problem with "Docent
> Stories".  Our docent training is half taught by the curator, and
> > half taught by a man who worked on our site (a farm) in the '30's, but
we
> still occasionally hear the most bizarre stories coming from our docents.
> I do think these stories come from "experts" and a need to seem informed
> when they don't know the answer to a question.  We try to
> > subtly give correct information in our docent newsletter that
accompanies
> their monthly schedule. This way all of the docents are filled in the
> subject.  This may be cumbersome for some organizations, but is works well
> for us and avoids having to chastise a docent (and potentially
> > run them off)
> >
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