>Date:    Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:27:39 +0200
>From:    Francois Mairesse <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: evaluation of museum activities


The most extensive and insightful writings in the field are those of Dr.
Chandler Screvin.  He publishes many articles as well as a journal and is
one of the major pioneers in this field.  He is now in Chicago.


>Hello,
>
>I am preparing a PHD dissertation on the evaluation of museums activities.
>I would like to explore the different concepts of evaluation related to
>museum literature.
>
>According to my knowledge, the introduction of the "evaluation concept"
>really started in the '30s, with the different public surveys in the United
>States.
>
>I would like to enquire deeper on the other conceptions of "evaluation".
>
>- I found a first reference to the introduction of "economic evaluation" in
>the book of Hendon (Analysing a Art Museum), in 1979. Do you know some
>earlier publications connected with this topic ?
>
>- The concept of Self-evaluation, as I found it, was introduced by the AAM
>in their Accreditation Program. I could only see the second edition of its
>program (1978). Was it already introduced when they started (1971)? Do you
>know some earlier publications with the evaluation concept connected with
>accreditation?
>
>- I found also the concept of evaluation connected with management in an
>article of Des Griffin (Museum Management, Journal of Museum Management and
>Curatorship, 1987). Do you know some earlier introduction of this topic
>related to museum management?
>
>- Do you know some other conceptions of "evaluation" connected to museums
>or museology?
>
>Many thanks.
>
>=46RANCOIS MAIRESSE
>Universit=E9 Libre de Bruxelles
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>
>=46RANCOIS MAIRESSE
>Universit=E9 Libre de Bruxelles
>CEME-CP 139
>Av. F.D.Roosevelt, 50
>1050 Bruxelles
>Belgium
>tel. 32 2 650 36 88
>fax. 32 2 650 40 12
>e-mail. [log in to unmask]
>