Re: value of a museum to the community We tend to value what we can measure. Can you measure the impact of museum visitation on test scores? In Texas, home of Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills testing, we can correlate the impact of a visit on increasing test scores. Does your convention & visitors bureau keep stats on the number of people who are attracted to town to enjoy your events, facilities, collections? Do you keep a file of requests for free tickets, lectures, speakers? Those help, too, especially when you measure them by the pound. All those of us who are students of Myers-Briggs and other personality profiling systems know that different ways of looking at an issue aren't better or worse--they are just different. Perhaps it's just a question of addressing the "count it up" demographic, which is finding its way into positions of political power and influence. A thought. Liz Bleiberg ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).