Regarding web sites, their creating and management:

I am the registrar at the Plains Art Museum, a mid-sized art museum located
in Fargo, ND.  We just recently got a web site up and running about three
months ago.  The museum knew it had become a necessity, but no one really
had any time, and to farm it out was WAY to expensive.

Our administrative assistant took it upon herself to do it.  She purchased a
few books, taught herself, and within a few weeks had a fully operable web
page on line!  The web page is a great design, even for a professional web
designer, and the fact that the web designer was inexperienced makes it that
much more impressive.

As far as maintenance and management of the site, the admin. asst. also does
that.  When new information presents itself, those responsible will either
take the requisite digital photos themselves and provide the necessary
information or let the admin. asst. know.  Either way the information is
updated.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me off list.

M.Ryan
Registrar
Plains Art Museum





>From: Issaquah Historical Society Info <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: museum web site maintenance
>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:59:34 -0700
>
> > I would like to hear from people at small to medium-sized museums
> > about how
> > their museums handle the creation and maintenance of the museum web
>site.
> > Did you contract the actual design out to someone else and
> > provide them with
> > the text and images and updates? Did you contract for the original
>design
> > and then start doing the updates yourself? Or is someone on staff
> > responsible for the actual web site creation and maintenance?
>
>We were fortunate enough to have a board member (and retired Microsoft
>employee) volunteer to create a web site for us. He started about a year
>ago, and with the true technologists fervor, has become obsessed with
>placing as much information and resources as possible on the web site. I
>would estimate that he spends anywhere from 5-10 hours a week working on
>the
>site. The results are a very thorough, searchable site, which provides a
>lot
>of data for researchers. We have had less-than-favorable comments by some
>graphic designers, though. :) Hard to look a gift horse in the mouth.
>
>If we had not had a volunteer come to the fore and decide that we need a
>web
>site, we probably would not have created one. It would have been placed on
>the long list of things that I should, in a perfect world, be able to
>accomplish and we would have wound up with a one-page site giivng location
>and contact information, and not much else.
>
>Another option might be trying to find a student willing to create a web
>page as an internship or school project.
>
>Erica S. Maniez
>Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
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>www.issaquahhistory.org
>
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