Museum Information Professionals as Providers and Users of Online Resources (25 Jun 2004)

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Museum Information Professionals as Providers and Users of Online Resources (25 Jun 2004)
Museum information professionals are among the most intensive and yet least studied users of descriptions of their own collections. There is a common assumption that museum professionals, as the creators as well as the users of these descriptions, find them to be effective and intuitive to use. However, little is known about how museum professionals actually use these descriptions or whether the descriptions are addressing their information needs. As museums adopt descriptive standards such as the Encoded Archival Description, it is important to assess the extent to which these approaches meet the needs of museum professionals as well as their user constituencies.

Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-04/gilliland-swetland_white.html

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