A museum resource/research room is a place where people can go to read
or do research on a topic; it can be compared to a library. The Please
Touch Museum is planning on adding a resource/research room to our new
location at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Our
resource/research room will be a place where parents/child caregivers
and professionals can go to investigate and report on diverse topics and
uses of play. This is inline with the Please Touch Museum mission
"learning through play". Your resource room or resource area does not
have to hold the same information we would like to. I say resource area
because during my research with this survey a lot of places do not have
a separate room for their resources (books, magazines, videos, etc...).
Most of the resources are apart of another exhibit but answers to the
questions even from a place where there is just a resource area is also
very helpful. The point of the survey is to help the Please Touch Museum
take the appropriate steps in creating a solid, functional, and well
equipped resource/research room. I hope I answered your question and
cleared things up for you. Feel free to e-mail me any other questions
you may have.
Danielle Harrison
Please Touch Museum(r)
Play Study Center Intern
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Good Morning Danielle,
For purposes of your survey, "What is a Museum Resource/Research Room?"
I want to be sure I understand, before I respond to your survey.....
Wesley
Wesley S. Creel
Administrator of Programs
Pink Palace Family of Museums
Memphis, TN
www.memphismuseums.org
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Danielle Harrison
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:15 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Resource Room
Earlier in the month I sent out an e-mail asking for museums that have a
resource room for their participation in an online survey about their
resource room. Phase-I did not bring in as many surveys as hoped. For
Phase-II I am sending out the survey again with a deadline due by Monday
March 31, 2008. Please take a moment of your time and complete this
survey. When I have interviewed people by phone this process took less
than 15 minutes of there time. Your response to the questions will
remain anonymous but your name and affiliation will be included in the
Please Touch Museum official report.
Danielle Harrison
Please Touch Museum(r)
Play Study Center Intern
Please Touch Museum(r)
Museum Resource/Research Room Questionnaire
Please fill out the questions by typing in your response and e-mailing
the completed, saved questionnaire back to
[log in to unmask] by Monday March 31, 2008.
1. How was the importance of a resource/research room determined?
What process led to the decision?
2. What was involved in the planning of the resource/research room?
Feel free to mention anything you and others did.
3. Who was involved in planning and designing the resource/research
room? What were their roles?
4. How was its location chosen? Is it connected to or near the
store? Are rest rooms and or water fountains nearby? Are you satisfied
with its placement?
5. How was the resource/research room designed? What does it look
like? Describe
its important design features.
6. What changes or adjustments in planning and design happened
along the way?
7. Is there a fee to use the services? What is the cost?
8. How is it staffed? Are there any qualifying credentials that one
must have to be staffed there?
9. Who are the intended users of the resource/research room? Who
actually uses the resource/research room? How extensively do they use
it?
10. Please describe what happens in your resource/research room.
11. What materials are offered? What materials are most often used?
Are the materials connected to the exhibits? How?
12. Are these materials available to be lent out? How does the
lending out process work? - Are you happy with this system?
13. Are you a collecting institution? Are there any collections
displayed in the resource/research room? Do the collections tie into the
exhibits in your gallery? How much space is allotted to the collections
in the resource/research room? How often are the collections changed
within the resource/research room, if at all?
14. Is your resource/research room child friendly? Are there
children's books or toys?
Are there any programs offered through the resource/research room? What
types of programs are offered if any?
15. What aspects of the resource/research room have been the best?
What has worked less well? Is there anything that you would change or
add to the resource/research room and Why?
16. What is your name and affiliation? Your response to the
questions will remain anonymous but your name and affiliation will be
included in the official report. Leave this space blank if you choose to
remain anonymous in the official report.
Thank You
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