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Hello everyone -
 
In response to Ben Fuller's recent inquiry regarding "hard statistical research"
on museum operations, here are a few good references that I had in my files:
 
"Measuring a museum's output" by Robert Bud et.  al., MUSEUMS JOURNAL, Vol.  91
(1), January 1991.
 
"Measure the Ecstacy - Can the visitor experience be quantified" by Giulia
Ajmone Marsan, MUSEUMS JOURNAL, July 1993.
 
"Mesuring museums' merits" by Peter Ames in THE MUSEUMS PROFESSION: INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL RELATIONS edited by Gaynor Kavanagh (Leicester: Leichester University
Press, 1991)
 
 
Hope these are of use.  As Richard Shockley noted, THE COST OF COLLECTING is an
excellent eye-opener.
 
 
Shari Saunders
Standards Coordinator
Alberta Museums Association
 
(403) 424-2626
 
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