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
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®
Play Study Center Intern
Please Touch Museum®
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.
- How was the importance of a resource/research
room determined? What process led to the decision?
- What was involved in the planning of the
resource/research room? Feel free to mention anything you and others
did.
- Who was involved in planning and designing the
resource/research room? What were their roles?
- 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?
- How was the resource/research room designed? What
does it look like? Describe
its important
design features.
- What changes or adjustments in planning and
design happened along the way?
- Is there a fee to use the services? What is
the cost?
- How is it staffed? Are there any qualifying
credentials that one must have to be staffed there?
- Who are the intended users of the resource/research
room? Who actually uses the resource/research room? How extensively
do they use it?
- Please describe what happens in your
resource/research room.
- What materials are offered? What materials
are most often used? Are the materials connected to the exhibits?
How?
- Are these materials available to be lent out? How
does the lending out process work? - Are you happy with this system?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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